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An Economic Development Index
Montenegro, Alvaro - EconWPA - 2004
There is no consensus about which variables, apart from income per capita, serve to characterize or define economic development, or guide its teaching. This paper proposes a simple and operational definition that combines the level of income per capita and the distribution of income. An economic...
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Mortality Rate and Property Rights in a Model with Human Capital and R&D
Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2004
the industrialized world in the last two centuries. Then, we explicitly compare the two types of expropriation (mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407750
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Early Starts, Reversals and Catchup in The Process of Economic Development
Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - EconWPA - 2004
Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...
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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
the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and beyond. This article tries to close this gap by using latest (United Nations and …. Our three-fold empirical understanding of the process of globalization – reliance on foreign savings, MNC penetration and … feminism that substituted patriarchic structures inherent in practically all world regions for much of the 19th and the early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125619
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Tectonic shifts in the structures of international inequality?
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
main loser in the structural changes that affect the position of Europe in the 21st Century. The world system approach … world economy are dramatically shifting towards the Asia- Pacific region, and that the days of “Eurocentrism” are … outnumbered. Foreign savings become an important indicator of the center-periphery structure of the world system and its changing …
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...
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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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MRS. GANDHI GAVE NEW ECONOMIC APPROACHES
SUBRAMANIAM, DR. VSR. - EconWPA - 2004
World Nations to Accelerate their pace of Social and Economic development … “Consultant Adviser - Computer Services”, to the Caribbean Development Bank, Barbados, West Indies ( World Bank / UNDP Setup …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076600
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REDEFINED PRODUCTIVITY & SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORIENTED MANAGEMENT DECISIONS.
DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2004
In the Domain of Development Economics, Productivity is represented by Output to Input Ratio & Management Decisions related to the Inputs and Outputs ensures to keep this ratio in a favourable condition. When this is integrated with a Broad-Scope of Socio-Economic Development (SED). Qualitative...
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Social capital, labour precariousness and the economic performance. An empirical assessment of the strength of weak ties in Italy
Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005
This paper carries out an assessment of the influence that different kinds of social ties exert on labour precariousness, on the state of health of urban environments and on the economic performance in Italy. Overall, the empirical evidence shows that weak ties connecting members of voluntary...
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