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Industrial energy from water-mills in the European economy, 5th to 18th Centuries: the limitations of power,
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
areas not well treated by Reynolds and other historians: in the fields of mining, metallurgy, and textiles – including the … costly, overshot wheels. The study thus begins with the late-medieval technological revolutions in both mining and metallurgy …
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Naxal problem in India an economic analysis
Pradhan, Raj Kishor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
India, having one of the fastest growing economies in the world, and being the most populous democratic country, has great potential to become a future superpower. However, in this increasingly globalised environment, India faces several threats to its security. The Naxalites has been identified...
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Copper and Foreign Investment: The development of the mining industry in Cyprus during the great depression
Apostolides, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper evaluates the impact of the rapid growth of mining on the Cypriot economy during the period 1921-1938, with … special focus on the expansion of copper sulphate mining. During this period the industry was transformed by companies such as … the Cyprus Mining Corporation (CMC) and this affected the whole economy and society. The island was for the first time …
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El enfoque de la nueva ruralidad como eje de las políticas publicas. ¿Qué podemos esperar?
Reveles, Acosta; Lorena, Irma - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Recognizing that poverty in the fields of Latin America has not been overcome with the model of agribusiness and agro-exporting, the paradigm of new rurality emerges as a response to meet the demands of the rural areas. This vision is now the basis of rural policies in Latin America and other...
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The Emergence of Latin Multinationals
Santiso, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The corporate world has changed remarkably in the past 10 years. New multinationals are appearing in countries with emerging markets such as Brazil, India, China, South Africa and Mexico, which are not only top recipients of foreign capital, but have fast become major investors themselves. An...
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Book review of Alice R. P. Abreu (org.): Flexible production and economic governance in Latin America
Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
This book organized by Alice Abreu, actual President of ISA-RC30 “Sociology of Work”, is a follow up of an international seminar on the same theme of the title, held in September 1997 also in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). In this book are published papers presented on Latin American case studies,...
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The Influence of Religious Beliefs and Ethnic Diversity on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Latin America and Muslim Countries
DelaCruz, Juan J - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In the absence of substantial differences in the growth rates of per capita GDP across countries, what are the factors that explain the rapid spread of the HIV infection within a nation? This is an empirical question that needs to be explained. In order to elucidate the correlation between HIV...
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The FTAA After The Emergence Of the Euro
Schettino, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The aim of this paper is to inquire into the possible relation between the FTAA (Free Trade Area of Americas) and the progressive interna- tionalization of the Euro. We will sustain that the actual productive situation (globalization) makes impossible to think of an FTAA with- out a kind of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836508
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Instituciones, estructura económica y política económica: ¿Qué hay detrás de la inflación en América Latina?
Arreaza Coll, Adriana; Pedauga, Luis Enrique - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper we examine the importance of institutional arrangements and factors related to the economic structure to explain inflation outcomes in Latin America. We perform a dynamic panel data analysis with an ample set of variables that allowed us to consider the temporal dimension of the...
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Old-Age Pension Reform and Modernization Pathways: Lessons for China from Latin America
Calvo, Esteban; Williamson, John B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
While numerous Western countries first experienced cultural rationalization, next economic modernization, and then faced the challenges of population aging and pension policy reform, both Latin America and China, in contrast, are dealing with these challenges in the context of much less...
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