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Kurz zum Klima: Zu viel Salz verdirbt den Boden
Zimmer, Markus; Lippelt, Jana; Frank, Jonas - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 65 (2012) 19, pp. 51-53
Der zunehmende Einsatz von Anlagen zur Bewässerung sowie mangelnde Erfahrungswerte und Unkenntnis über den richtigen Einsatz der künstlichen Bewässerung haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu einer massiven Zunahme der Versalzung des Bodens geführt. Durch diese Bodenversalzung werden weite...
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Kurz zum Klima: Bier – mehr drin, als man denkt
Lippelt, Jana - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 63 (2010) 18, pp. 33-34
Auf dem Oktoberfest werden die Rekorde des Bierausschanks regelmäßig gebrochen. So wurden im Jahr 2009 rund 66 000 Hektoliter Bier ausgeschenkt. Der Oktoberfestkonsum ist beachtlich, stellt aber nur einen Bruchteil des weltweiten Verbrauchs von rund 1,8 Mrd. hl dar. Der Artikel gibt einen...
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Global Economic Prospects 2008 : Technology Diffusion in the Developing World
2008
Global Economic Prospects 2008: Technology Diffusion in the Developing World examines the state of technology in … of strong growth and a 15 year period of strong performance in much of the developing world, which has contributed to …
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Global Economic Prospects 2006 : Economic Implications of Remittances and Migration
2005
International migration, the movement of people across international boundaries to improve economic opportunity, has enormous implications for growth and welfare in both origin and destination countries. An important benefit to developing countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from...
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Global Economic Prospects 2005 : Trade, Regionalism, and Development
2004
The proliferation of regional trade agreements is fundamentally altering the world trade landscape. The number of … can have adverse effects on excluded countries. Lowering of border barriers around the world is crucial to minimizing … these effects. The completion of the Doha Development Agenda by all countries in the World Trade Organization will reduce …
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Global Economic Prospects 2004 Overview : Realizing the Development Promise of the Doha Agenda
2003
The overview of the Global Economic Prospects (GEP) 2004 addresses the Doha Agenda and its effects or failures on global trade integration. The document contains commentary and analysis of international trade and its effects on developing countries and the poor populations of more developed...
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Global Economic Prospects 2003 : Investing to Unlock Global Opportunities
2002
Strong cyclical dynamics, together with an easing of macroeconomic policies in the United States and elsewhere, have boosted large parts of the global economy, into the initial phase of a recovery in 2002. Nonetheless, the global recovery is fragile, because investment spending is insufficient...
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Global Economic Prospects 2002 : Making Trade Work for the World's Poor
Newfarmer, Richard - 2002
Realizing the promise of the new global initiatives to expand trade requires concerted effort to move development to center stage in trade policy formulation. This report is dedicated to that agenda. It begins with a review of global prospects and ways globalization links the fates of industrial...
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Global Economic Prospects 2000
Nabli, Mustapha - 1999
in the developing world. First, the crisis has increased poverty in the East Asian crisis countries, Brazil, and the … commodity prices that began in 1996. Chapter 4 examines how the most commodity-dependent economies in the world--the major oil …
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Global Economic Prospects 2006 : Economic Implications of Remittances and Migration
World Bank - 2012
The themes of the 2006 Global Economic Prospects (GEP) are international remittances and migration, their economic consequences, and how policies can increase their role in reducing poverty. The GEP explores the gains and losses from international migration from the perspective of developing...
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