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Harstad, Bård - 2006

For a club such as the European Union, an important question is when, and under which conditions, a subset of the members should be allowed to form inner clubs and enhance cooperation. Flexible cooperation allows members to participate if and only if they benefit, but it generates a freerider...

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Experience with endogenous rural development initiatives and the prospects for Leader+ in the region Dolina Strugu, Poland

Gramzow, Andreas - 2005

This paper presents the results of a case study of local economic development in Dolina Strugu, Podkarpackie voivodship, Poland. Its aim is to analyse local development problems and chances, to investigate the potential of endogenous initiatives to support economic development, and to examine...

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Local partnership as an incubator for rural development: the case of Debrzno, North-Western Poland

Gramzow, Andreas - 2006

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the gap in economic development between rural and urban regions in Poland has continuously grown. Increasing income disparities and the lack of job opportunities have already led to an outflow of young people out of and an increasing obsolescence in rural areas....

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Economic efficiency and growth: Evidence from Brazil, China and India

Nazmi, Nader; Revilla, Julio E. - 2008

We compare economic efficiencies in Brazil, India, and China, where economic efficiency measures the gap between potential and actual output for a given input combination and technological factor. We use stochastic production frontier models to measure the contributions of factors of production...

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Technological innovation, entrepreneurship and development

Audretsch, David B.; Sanders, Mark - 2009

protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to … follow strategies of export driven industrialization. If we consider the share of non-OECD countries in global trade in … Africa. In this paper we present a two region product life cycle model of global specialization and trade. In it we analyse …

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China and the future of the developing world: The coming global-Asian era and its consequences

Henderson, Jeffrey - 2008

. Having discussed the nature and dynamics of the GAE, the paper turns to sketch a series of vectors (trade, aid and energy …

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Foreign aid, infrastructure development and welfare: An intertemporal analysis

Djajić, Slobodan - 2008

international trade. It is up to the donor country to decide what fraction of any given aid package is to be made available for the …

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The service sector revolution in India: A quantitative analysis

Verma, Rubina - 2008

and growth in services' trade. The objective of this paper is to build a simple three sector quantitative model which can … productivity (TFP) and increase in the level of trade in industrial and service sectors. The results from a counterfactual … of sectoral trade negligibly affects the results. Hence I conclude that services' productivity growth versus the increase …

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Trade with China and India and manufacturing labour demand in Argentina

Castro, Lucio; Saslavsky, Daniel - 2008

impact on manufacturing employment? This paper attempts to answer this question by estimating the effects of trade with China … effects of trade with China and India on the level of employment in Argentina's manufacturing sector. Results suggest that … trade with China and India only had a small negative effect on industrial employment, even during the swift trade …

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Vietnam as a role model for development

Thoburn, John - 2009

Vietnam's development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the introduction of its doi moi (renovation) economic reform programme in 1986. The core of Vietnam's economic strategy has been rapid integration into the world economy, with a...

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