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-endowment based trade and economic ties with the secondary advanced economy (first the U.S. and then Japan) played important roles in … the pre-WWII growth of Japan, Southeast Asia's growth in the 1970s and the 1980s, and its economic crisis in the mid-1990s. …
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The commissioned study into the ageing of Australia’s population was released April 2005. The Commission found that one … government. Policy measures will be needed to reduce the fiscal pressure from ageing and/or to finance the fiscal gap. Reforms … would be needed in key human service areas, such as health and aged care, where the pressures of an ageing population will …
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common market among ASEAN, China, South Korea, and Japan by establishing a free trade area covering the entire region. As the … two major countries in the region, in the arrangement, China and Japan would have centered roles in promoting economic … cooperation in East Asia. However, it is practically impossible to decide either China or Japan is capable of taking the …
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East Asian economies (China, Japan and South Korea) is also a possibility. This document first of all presents an overview …China’s growing demand for oil is significantly changing the international geopolitics of energy, especially in the … consumers, such as Japan and India, as well as with other Asian Pacific countries. However, enhanced cooperation among the big …
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In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...
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In this paper we consider different explanations for why the coefficient associated with human capital is often negative in growth regressions once country-specific effects are controlled for, whereas the coefficient in question is strongly positive in cross-sectional or panel results based on...
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Human capital plays an important role in the theory of economic growth, but it has been difficult to measure this abstract concept. We survey the psychological literature on cross-cultural IQ tests, and conclude that modern intelligence tests are well-suited for measuring an important form of a...
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Luego de examinar el marco teórico y conceptual de la teoría del crecimiento y del comercio internacional, se mide la eficacia de la apertura comercial impulsada por el TLCAN para fomentar el intercambio comercial. Asimismo, se evalúan los efectos de éste en el crecimiento económico de los...
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In this paper an effort has been made to unveil some hidden and implicit assumptions that has been used in different models dealing with analysis and measurement of contribution of human capital to economic growth. In order to do it we started from the general production function with...
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En los últimos años, se han realizado diversos estudios a nivel mundial utilizando el modelo de crecimiento y convergencia económica, a través de países y de regiones. Para el caso de México, hasta la segunda mitad de los noventas comienza el análisis empírico de la convergencia...
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