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Chinese experience with global G3 standard-setting
Whalley, John; Zhou, Weimin; An, Xiaopeng - 2009
China's growth strategy as set out in the 11th 5-year plan in 2005 called for upgrading of product quality, the development of an innovation society, and reduced reliance on foreign intellectual property with high license fees. Consistent with this policy, China has been involved in recent years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003807873
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Findings of the signal approach for financial monitoring in Kazakhstan
Abberger, Klaus; Nierhaus, Wolfgang; Shaikh, Shynar - 2009
This study concentrates on the signal approach for Kazakhstan. It focuses on the properties of individual indicators … in 2009 is signalled in advance. -- currency crises ; leading economic indicators ; signal approach ; Kazakhstan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883094
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Early warning system for economic and financial risks in Kazakhstan
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Dlugosch, Dennis; Kolb, Benedikt - 2009
-prudential indicators. The system will be tested using a case study referring to Kazakhstan. The main novelty of the study lies in designing … economic environment of Kazakhstan and in studying the interaction of these composite indicators. An additional innovation is … data which until now have not been used much in this area of research. -- banking crisis ; leading indicators ; Kazakhstan …
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Dutch disease scare in Kazakhstan : is it real?
Égert, Balázs (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496805
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Mining matters : natural resource extraction and local business constraints
Haas, Ralph de; Poelhekke, Steven - 2016
We estimate the impact of local mining activity on the business constraints experienced by 22,150 firms across eight resource-rich countries. We find that with the presence of active mines, the business environment in the immediate vicinity (20 km) of a firm deteriorates but business constraints...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565667
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Economic returns to speaking the right language(s)? : evidence from Kazakhstan's shift in state language and language of instruction
Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - 2014
This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438031
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Democracy and development : the devil in the details
Persson, Torsten (contributor);  … - 2006
Does democracy promote economic development? This paper reviews recent attempts to address this question that exploited within-country variation. It shows that the answer is largely positive, but also depends on the details of democratic reforms. First, the sequence of economic vs political...
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Economic freedom and religion : an empirical investigation
Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries...
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Rhineland exit?
Bovenberg, Ary Lans (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003630541
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Political capitalism : the interaction between income inequality, economic freedom and democracy
Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2015
In this contribution we study the relationship between income inequality and economic freedom for a panel of 100 countries for the 1971-2010 period. From a panel causality study we find that income inequality has a negative causal effect on economic freedom, while causation does not run in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411131