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The European power market is undergoing signifi cant changes. The EU has set an ambitious goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent by 2030. This will require significant investment in renewable energy sources such as wind and photovoltaics as well as measured policies to deal...
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The World Bank is a genuine investment agency. This fact seems to be self-evident, yet not fully realized by a larger … public. At present, the World Bank (IBRD), together with its affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA), is … also a multilateral development institution, the largest in the world. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how this …
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unit, a so-called bad bank. This plan effectively addresses three key challenges. It provides for the transparent removal …
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As the flow of financial aid from the industrial countries may be expected to shrink rapidly as a consequence of their economic difficulties, the developing countries will have to find out possibilities of using their own financial resources more effectively. In this connection the task of...
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Mounting external indebtedness has become a major problem for many developing countries. This may be not least a result of the fact that economists and policy-makers have tended to emphasize the benefits to the recipient countries of external borrowing to the neglect of its costs.
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This article examines a sample of German pharmaceutical firms to highlight the strategic reasons why firms participate in various intellectual property (IP) marketplaces, both proprietary (patents and copyrights) and non-proprietary (open source and non-patented technology). The obstacles that...
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