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This study provides an understanding of the Indian regional economy utilizing the fundamental economic structure (FES …) approach. The FES construct implies that selected characteristics of an economy will vary predictably with region size, as … economy during the period 1965? (2) What proportions of the cells are predictable? (3) Can the 1965 regional FES predict 1983 …
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We examine the case of the Czech Republic, which has been frequently cited as one of the most successful cases of transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Despite the costs related to the break-up of Czechoslovakia in late 1992 and 1993, the immediate consequences were quickly...
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The concept of .green growth. implies that a wide range of developmental objectives, such as job creation, economic prosperity and poverty alleviation, can be easily reconciled with environmental sustainability. This study, however, argues that rather than being win-win, green growth is similar...
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This paper provides a synthesis of the country cases in the Middle East and North Africa: Oman, Bahrain, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates. Although these countries differ in terms of resource endowments and economic evolution, they share common aspec
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Almost all major development institutions today say that promoting good governance is an important part of their agendas. Despite this consensus, .good governance. is an extremely elusive objective: it means different things to different organizations and to different actors within these...
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; and to examine empirically the experiences and evolution of Brazil.s foreign exchange market under different exchange rate …
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Local institutional and structural (meso) factors can play a role in mediating the returns to a macro-social policy. I focus on the Brazilian cash-transfer-programme Bolsa Familia and check how contextual features influence the returns to transfers. Build
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Brazil in the past 2 …
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