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Purpose – Recent literature has been able to include into standard optimal growth models some hypotheses that allow for the generation of endogenous long-run fluctuations. This paper aims to contribute to this endogenous business cycles literature by considering social interactions....
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to appraise the transition from bank-based systems to universal banking. Design/methodology/approach – The Wynne Godley and Francis Cripps macroeconomic framework is used to structure the argument. Findings – It is shown that the activity of...
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sound rationale for public policies to encourage the increase of personal savings during times of employment to make …
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Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to review the social consequences of the Great Recession of 2008-2009. In … particular, it looks at impacts on the world of work – unemployment, informal and vulnerable employment, working poor and youth … Recession had serious adverse impacts and morphed into a global social crisis. The situation is made worse due to obsessions …
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Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to review the social consequences of the Great Recession of 2008-2009. In … particular, it looks at impacts on the world of work – unemployment, informal and vulnerable employment, working poor and youth … Recession had serious adverse impacts and morphed into a global social crisis. The situation is made worse due to obsessions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685874
Purpose – Under the fixed exchange rate regime Fiji's currency, which is pegged to a basket of currencies of its major trading partners, has been experiencing severe pressures. The purpose of this paper is to study annual exchange market pressure (EMP) over a 31-year (1975-2005) period and...
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Purpose – World wide, the gross national product (GNP) has been and still is the basic accounting concept and the … impasse of the flawed GNP concept, and to improve and extend traditional accounting. Several of these early attempts are …
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Britain, and Brazil's agricultural workers during the early part of the twentieth century. Findings – Conceptualizing culture …
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for redistribution and might reduce targeting in Brazil. Lastly, the results indicate that “size matters”; i.e. the budget …
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in both nations better anticipate the issues and adapt their business practices to the requirements of successful Brazil …
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