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Measurement of globalization and its variations among countries, regions and over time

Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - 2005

contribution to the overall integration. Finally, we investigate the links between globalization and labor market in India …The process of globalization is an international economic order which has led to the progressive integration of the … technological innovation also provides impetus to the progressive integration of the nations. The elements of globalization include …

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Monotheism (from a sociopolitical and economic perspective)

Iyigun, Murat - 2007

The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....

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Cultures, clashes and peace

Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - 2009

Ethnic and religious fractionalization have important effects on economic growth and development, but their role in internal violent conflicts has been found to be negligible and statistically insignificant. These findings have been invoked in refutation of the Huntington hypothesis, according...

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Re-orient? MNC penetration and contemporary shifts in the global political economy

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the Re-orient approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...

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Institutions and Development : The Interaction between Trade Regime and Political System

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2004

This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...

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Review of the recent trends in development economics research: with experience from the federal region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas - 2007

recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the … development in a number area where similar trends are observed. The areas studied include globalization, in-sourcing and …

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Global business cycles: convergence or decoupling?

Kose, M. Ayhan; Otrok, Christopher M.; Prasad, Eswar - 2008

globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies …

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Globalization, institutions, and the ethnic divide: Recent longitudinal evidence

Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Prasch, Robert E. - 2012

significant impediment to growth but religious and linguistic heterogeneity have not. Further, while economic globalization has … more from global integration. This suggests the importance of globalization in redressing the detrimental impact of ethnic …

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Migration, international trade and capital formation: Cause or effect?

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Grossmann, Volker; Kohler, … - 2012

technology, globalization tends to lead to convergence. Moreover, under non-convex technology trade and migration tend to be …

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Earnings inequality in India: has the rise of caste and religion based politics in India had an impact?

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2006

state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results …

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