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Inclusive National Accounts: Introduction
Dasgupta, Partha - eSocialSciences - 2012
An outline of what would be ideally needed for a comprehensive set of national accounts is given. National governments and international agencies ought ideally to go even beyond green national accounts. Unfortunately though, that ideal cannot be met, at least not in the near future....
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Carrying Over: Analysing Female Utopias and Narratives of Education from 17th-century France to 18th-century Britain and 20th Century India
B, Bagchi - eSocialSciences - 2008
journeying back to seventeenth-century ancien regime France, to 1770s Scotland, to 1790s England, to early 20th-century Bengal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341771
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From Monasteries to Multinationals (and Back): A Historical Review of the Beer Economy
Poelmans, Eline; Swinnen, Johan F.M. - eSocialSciences - 2011
This article reviews beer production, consumption and the industrial organization of breweries throughout history. Monasteries were the centers of the beer economy in the early Middle Ages. Innovation and increased demand later induced the growth of commercial breweries. Globalization and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009318514
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Challenges and Opportunities in a Trillion Dollar Economy
C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2011
dollar club, namely, the US, UK, Japan, Germany, China, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Brazil and Russia. In fact, over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321469
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Ships-for-Scrap: Who Will Pay the Price?
Raghunandan, D. - eSocialSciences - 2006
Although the French President has ordered Clemenceau to head back, the politics of toxic waste and its disposal remains as murky as ever. The workers at the Alang shipyard are the worst exposed to toxic wastes by the work they do of breaking up ships past their prime. But their livelihoods are...
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Having Customers Share The Perception Of Quality Assessments On The French Wine Market
Teil, Geneviève - eSocialSciences - 2008
The wine market is a pretty paradoxical research object for the economical and marketing studies. In France alone … evolution of the wine market in France during the last century. [WP-2007-013] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487578
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The Challenges of Financial Liberalisation for Emerging Market Economies
Noyer, Christian - eSocialSciences - 2007
, the author offers some comments on the challenges posed by financial liberalisation drawing a comparison with France. The … lessons that can be drawn from a comparison with the French experience may seem limited since, in the 1980s, France was facing … applied to France: Building a resilient domestic financial system while or before opening the capital account; and shaping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487736
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Heterodox Macroeconomics and the Design of Monetary Institutions
Correa, Romar - eSocialSciences - 2008
monetary circuit approach researched in France and Italy are discussed. The objective is to present a coherent account of two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528199
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Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam
Bai, Jie; Jayachandran, Seema - eSocialSciences - 2013
Government corruption is more prevalent in poor countries than in rich countries. This paper uses cross-industry heterogeneity in growth rates within Vietnam to test empirically whether growth leads to lower corruption. The analysis uses survey data collected from over 13,000 Vietnamese firms...
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Deforestation in the Himalayas: Myths and Reality
Baland, Jean Marie; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2014
Deforestation in developing and middle income countries is an urgent global problem, affecting climate change, soil erosion, major river basins, and livelihoods of poor households living near the forests. Public discussions of the problem are frequently dominated by widely held beliefs...
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