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How to assist separatists in breaking up a country... or, rather, not: The role of decentralization and development assistance
Ehrke, Jürgen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The international community is usually set against secessionist movements that threaten to break up existing states. At the same time, many fragmented countries receive development aid, which influences the political process there. The model presented here seeks to answer two questions: “Is...
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Can statistics do without artefacts?
Chatelain, Jean-Bernard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This companion paper to Chatelain and Ralf (2012), “Spurious regressions with near-multicollinearity” put their results into the contexts of the history of statistics, of the current publication bias in applied sciences and of the substantive versus statistical significance debate. This...
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Foreign Aid in Equatorial Guinea: Macroeconomic Features and Future Challenges
Larrú, José María - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper carries out a deep case study of the international aid that Equatorial Guinea receives. This is an extremely interesting country because, not being a failed state, it presents very low indexes in institutional quality. Its oil richness, which began to be exploited by foreign investors...
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Long-run Trends and Recent Developments in Official Assistance from Donor Countries
White, Howard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
Official flows account for close to half of capital flows to developing countries, and close to 90 per cent of receipts for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper documents trends in these official flows over the last three decades. The most striking trend has been declining aid volume. Following two...
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A User’s Perspective on the Database of Services Sector in Indian Economy
Rath, D.P.; Nayak, P.K.; Lakshmanan, L; Mandal, K; Raj, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Measuring the contribution of services to the Indian economy is a challenging task because it presents problems not encountered in the primary and secondary sectors. The authors discuss problems found particularly in quantifying the contribution of the banking and software sectors and suggest...
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Globalisation, state and disempowerment: study of farmers suicide in Warangal
Venu Menon, Sudha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The ideology of globalization and its practice based on neo-liberal paradigm has played a vital role in re-arranging the architecture of global economic and political order. Central to this new economic dispensation is a shift in the role of the state, particularly in its commitment towards the...
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Implementing VAT in India :Implications for Federal Polity
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Over the last few years, many attempts have been made to implement VAT in India. Initially, all states were to move to … in India seem to present numerous administrative and constitutional difficulties, including the vexed question of union …-state relations. In addition to this, implementing VAT in India in context of economic reforms has paradoxical dimensions. On one hand …
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The Saving-Investment Dynamics And Financial Sector Reforms in India
Ang, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
relationship between the domestic saving and investment rates in India by controlling for the level of financial liberalization …
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Micro-finance in the India: the changing face of micro-credit Schemes
Wanchoo, Rajat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Micro-Finance is emerging as a powerful instrument for poverty alleviation in the new economy. In India, micro … agricultural business development services. When compared to the wider SHG bank linkage movement in India, private MFIs have had …-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFCs). This changing face of microfinance in India appears to be positive in terms of the ability of …
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Economic Valuation of a Wetland in West Bengal, India
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In the Gangetic flood plain of West Bengal, wetlands are used for multiple purposes, and have significant role in the livelihoods of the local people. Over the years, these Multiple Use Systems (MUSs) are getting converted to single use systems due to economic and social pressure from dominant...
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