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The study of the southern economies, among which emerging countries such as Brazil and several of Africa stand out, has acquired increasing international importance. In this article south-south cooperation between the South American giant and Sub-Saharan Africa is analyzed, focusing on the...
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In this paper we address the issue of the indeterminacy of climate change negotiations and examine the role played by the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) in this indeterminacy. Mobilising the analytical tools of international political economy (IPE), we show that changes...
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The bulk of the South African cotton crop is produced by large scale commercial farmers. Therefore it might be misleading to present South Africa's impressive Genetically Modified Cotton (GMC) adoption figures as evidence of successful GMC use by smallholder farmers. The total South African...
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This paper provides evidence that local social interactions within etnic groups may explain the puzzling variations in labour-market outcomes across individuals. Peer effects work first by creating pressure on labor-market participation, second, by conveying information about job opportunities...
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inflation, both as an objective and as an intermediate instrument. We want to show that other variables like employment can be … that they can be function of employment only, which then dominates inflation for use in the policy rule. …
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should respond more than one for one to inflation. This model yields explicit solutions for the optimal rule. We find that … underlying shocks, or which measure of inflation is used. In general the optimal elasticity of the interest rate with respect to … inflation needs not be greater than one. …
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Le passage à l'Union économique et monétaire dans la mesure où chaque pays demeure souverain n'a pas d'équivalent dans l'histoire. La banque centrale européenne a donc dû mettre en place une coopération efficace avec les banques centrales nationales dans un contexte institutionnel et...
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In the late 90's, after severe financial and economic crisis, accompanied by inflation and exchange rate instability …, Eastern Europe emerged into two groups of countries with radically contrasting monetary regimes (Currency Boards and Inflation … relationship between inflation, output growth, nominal and real uncertainties from 2000 till now. In other words, we test the …
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This paper o¤ers to investigate both the Friedman's and Mishkin's hypotheses on the consequences of inflation on output … countries, we distinguish between short-medium and long run and between headline and core inflation. We get two main results …. First, nominal uncertainty and inflation are positively linked. Second, headline inflation negatively Granger causes out …
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Book review: Liêm Hoang-Ngoc "Le fabuleux destin de la courbe de Phillips. Les théories de l'inflation et du chômage …
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