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Cities are not affected by global climate policy and the Kyoto Protocol – however many of them engage in voluntary activities. This paper analyses how communities in general and especially the city of Hamburg can contribute to global climate protection in their citypartnerships according to...
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gender inequality with comparative advantage (trade) and foreign direct investment flows. It discusses different forms and …
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The paper empirically explores the international linkages between gender inequality and trade flows of a sample of 92 …
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unfair comparative advantage in trade by using child labour. The results indicate that multinationals are highly sensitive …
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comparative advantage (trade) and foreign direct investment flows. It discusses several forms and the prevalence of forced labour …
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While theoretical models suggest that trade is likely to increase productivity and income levels, the empirical … evidence is rather mixed. For some countries, trade has a strong impact on growth, whereas for other countries there is no or … even a negative linkage. We examine one likely prerequisite for a welfare increasing impact of trade, that is, the role of …
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Die Unternehmen stehen durch die fortschreitende Globalisierung der Weltwirtschaft in einem zunehmend internationalen Wettbewerb, wovon jedoch nicht alle Branchen im gleichen Ausmaß erfasst werden. Determiniert wird der Globalisierungsgrad einer Branche vor allem durch die Höhe der...
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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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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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