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ECONOMIC / ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM INTERACTION

Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2003

This work is focused on identifying the relationship an economic system and its policies have with the environment. The biosphere is chosen in particular as object of analysis but this can be extended by means of an ecosystem recursive properties. The common factor involved in the relationship...

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Economia sintetica

Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 1998

Theoretical study identifying one modality with conditions necesary for the financial stabilization of an inherently unstable system; and 5040 other unstable dynamic modes. It draws on knowledge made available by the academic field of Control Engineering.

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Exports and Economic Growth in Namibia, 1968-1992

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - EconWPA - 2003

This short paper analyzes Namibia's data from 1968 to 1992 in order to determine the role of exports in economic growth. The analysis confirms the general importance of exports, but finds no discernible sign of accelerated growth because of it. There is some evidence supporting the political...

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Meditating on "Slow Growth in Africa" - New Evidence or Just Ol' Stuff?

Amavilah, V. Heinrich - EconWPA - 2003

This abstract will be reformatted upon submission. You don't need to format for line-breaks here!!!!! This will be a new paragraph but you can't indent - sorry. Now remember the good old days of cards. Punched holes in The Journal of Economic Perspectives (Summer, 1999: 3-114) published a...

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Resource Inefficiency and Poor Aggregate Economic Performance in African Countries: The Case of Namibia, 1968-1992

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - EconWPA - 2003

This essay develops a transcendental variable elasticity of substitution (Trans-VES) production function in which hypotheses concerning scale, output-input, and substitution, elasticities can be examined. The objective is to determine the impacts of domestic resources on the pattern of economic...

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Is the Structure of Happiness Equations the Same in Poor and Rich Countries? The Case of South Africa.

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

Are happiness patterns structurally the same when comparing poor and rich countries? Using cross-sectional data from the SALDRU93 survey, we show that the relationships between subjective well-being and socioeconomic variables have a similar structure and is U-shaped in age in South Africa as in...

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Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

This paper is the first of its kind to study quality of life responses of crime victims. Using cross-sectional data from the OHS97 survey of South Africa, we show that victims report significantly lower well-being than the non-victims, ceteris paribus. Happiness is lower for nonvictimized...

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Are there Regional Variations in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment in South Africa?

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

Are certain groups of unemployed individuals hurt less by unemployment than others? This paper is an attempt to test the hypothesis that non- pecuniary costs of unemployment may vary between societies with different unemployment rates. Using cross-sectional data from the SALDRU93 survey, we show...

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Corruption, Governance and Security: Challenges for the Rich Countries and the World

Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2004

Traditionally, national governance and corruption challenges have been seen as: i) particularly daunting in the poorer … undue influence. We construct a new set of ethics indices, encompassing forms of (legal) corruption not subject to … measurement in conventional (illegal) corruption indicators. It is found that manifestations of legal corruption may be more …

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The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development

Batra, Geeta; Kaufmann, Daniel; Stone, Andrew H. W. - EconWPA - 2004

corruption on the one hand, and growth and investment on the other, and it highlights the costs to economies where the state is …

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