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Globalization, Domestic Politics and Social Spending in Latin
Kaufman, Robert R.; Segura-Ubiergo, Alex - EconWPA - 2005
This paper analyzes the impact of globalization on social spending in Latin America. It shows that trade integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412487
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Is Islam really a development blockade? 12 predictors of development, including membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference, and their influence on 14 indicators of develo...
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
. Our three-fold empirical understanding of the process of globalization – reliance on foreign savings, MNC penetration and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125619
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Tectonic shifts in the structures of international inequality?
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
, globalization; general welfare, social security and public pensions, macroeconomics – Asia including Middle East; macroeconomic … analyses of economic development, comparative economic systems, cultural economics JEL classification: C21, D31, D60, F02, F15 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556011
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Skriptum: Europäisches und internationales Sozialrecht. Europäische und internationale Sozialpoltik
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
LISTE EINIGER WICHTIGER ABKÜRZUNGEN 4 ZUM GELEIT 6 EINFÜHRUNG UND PROBLEMAUFRISS - INTERNATIONALE SOZIALPOLITIK BEDEUTET FÖRDERUNG DER KONVERGENZ DER LEBENSBEDINGUNGEN 7 TEIL A: SOZIALRECHT UND SOZIALPOLITIK DER EU 14 1) ENTWICKLUNGSLINIEN UND GRUNDPRINZIPIEN DER EUROPÄISCHEN SOZIALPOLITIK...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556821
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CAN WE DISCERN THE EFFECT OF GLOBALIZATION ON INCOME DISTRIBUTION? Evidence from Household Budget Surveys
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003
The effects of globalization on income distribution within rich and poor countries are a matter of controversy. While … presents another attempt to discern the effects of globalization by using the data from household budget surveys and looking at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119246
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Technical Change, Pecuniary Externality and the Market Failure
Pant, Hom M. - EconWPA - 1996
First, a small open economy is analyzed to show that even a complete and competitive market may fail to produce Pareto-efficient outcomes under conditions of changing technology. It is mainly because price- taking agents can make the prices they face by changing their technology or technique of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124963
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THE TOWER OF BABEL? THE INNOVATION SYSTEM APPROACH VERSUS MAINSTREAM ECONOMICS.
Hers, Johannes; Nahuis, Niek - EconWPA - 2004
The Innovation systems (IS) approach and the system failures it identifies, play an important role in the design and legitimization of innovation policy. This paper analyses the usefulness of this concept. We conclude that the IS-approach can be useful to visualize the complexity of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126082
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Productivity Measures in the Presence of 'Poorly Priced' Goods
Perrin, Richard K.; Fulginiti, Lilyan E. - EconWPA - 2005
The objective of this paper is to present Hickssian general equilibrium approaches to productivity measurement in the presence of market failure.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005560961
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User's Guide to an Early Warning System for Macroeconomic Vulnerability in Latin American Countries
Herrera, Santiago; Garcia, Conrado A. - EconWPA - 2000
The object of this paper is to develop an Early Warning System of Macro Vulnerability for several Latin American countries based on previous work of Kaminsky, Lizondo and Reinhart (1997) and Kaminsky (1998). We build a composite leading indicator that signals macroeconomic vulnerability, showing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076817
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THE ROLE OF GLOBAL RISK AVERSION IN EXPLAINING LATIN AMERICAN SOVEREIGN SPREADS
HERRERO, ALICIA GARCIA; ORTIZ, ALVARO - EconWPA - 2005
This paper assesses empirically whether global risk aversion (GRA) and some if its determinants (US economic growth and the US long term interest rates) explain developments in Latin American sovereign spreads. We find that GRA is significant and positively related to Latin American sovereign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124937