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Umbaupläne und Reparaturarbeiten an der internationalen Finanzarchitektur: eine Zwischenbilanz aus deutscher Perspektive

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2001

It is for good reasons that economic policymakers have rejected demands by globalization sceptics to fundamentally …

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Globalisierung der Automobilindustrie: neue Standorte auf dem Vormarsch, traditionelle Anbieter unter Druck?

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2000

Der Beitrag analysiert die internationalen Produktionsverlagerungen und Investitionsverflechtungen in der Automobilindustrie, um die These zu überprüfen, dass es selbst bei der Herstellung relativ wissensund technologieintensiver Güter zu einem nachdrängenden Wettbewerb aus Ländern mit...

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Assessing the allocation of aid: Developmental concerns and the self-interest of donors

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, … - 2005

measured by the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA). If the CPIA is replaced by the Kaufmann index …

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Democratic transition, The: a study of the causality between income and the Gastil democracy index

Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2008

The paper considers the transformation of the political system as countries pass through the Grand Transition from a poor developing country to a wealthy developed country. In the process most countries change from an authoritarian to a democratic political system. This is shown by using the...

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Less aid proliferation and more donor coordination? The wide gap between words and deeds

Aldasoro, Iñaki; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2009

We present a two-step approach of assessing whether major donors of foreign aid have met recent demands for less proliferated and better coordinated aid efforts. First, we calculate Theil indices revealing the concentration of each donor's aid on recipient countries and specific aid sectors....

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The agricultural and the democratic transitions: causality and the roundup model

Gundlach, Erich; Paldam, Martin - 2009

Long-run development (in income) causes a large fall in the share of agriculture commonly known as the agricultural transition. We confirm that this conventional wisdom is strongly supported by the data. Long-run development (in income) also causes a large increase in democracy known as the...

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Second thoughts on development accounting

Gundlach, Erich; Rudman, Desmond; Wößmann, Ludger - 1998

We estimate the relative roles of factor inputs and productivity in explaining the level of economic development, which is measured as output per worker. For a large sample of countries, we show that alternative identifying productivity assumptions and alternative measures of human capital have...

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Climatic conditions, cultural diversity, and labor productivity

Gundlach, Erich; Matus-Velasco, Ximena - 2000

Countries with the highest labor productivity overwhelmingly lie in the world's temperate climatic zones far away from …

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Liberalization and regulation of international capital flows: where the opposites meet

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2001

reject the view that financial globalization has deprived national policymakers of the means to protect their economies …

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Shooting the messenger of good news: a critical look at the World Bank's success story of effective aid

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002

In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the … policies. However, the World Bank's success story rests on an extremely weak foundation: First, the institution's contribution … the distribution of World Bank financing. Second, the picture portrayed in the report takes a bad turn if only two …

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