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Investment and growth in India under liberalization: Asymmetries and Instabilities

Mazumdar, Surajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper makes the case that the growth trajectory of the Indian economy in the post-1991 liberalization period is … 1980s. This instability is a result of an investment-growth asymmetry that flows from a combination of a services …-intensive growth pattern and a manufacturing-intensive investment pattern. These in turn reflect the pattern of demand expansion within …

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The scientist and the church

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...

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Trade Openness and Growth: Is There Any Link?

Sarkar, Prabirjit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The present study examines the relationship between openness (trade-GDP ratio) and growth. Our cross-country panel data analysis of a sample 51 countries of the South during 1981-2002 shows that for only 11 rich and highly trade-dependent countries a higher real growth is associated with a...

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Performance of Indian Manufacturing in the Post Reform Period

Gupta, Poonam; Kumar, Utsav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Many emerging countries in recent decades have relied on a development strategy that focused primarily on promoting the manufacturing sector and the exports of manufactured goods. However, an acceleration of growth of output and employment in manufacturing has eluded India. This is despite the...

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Global Insecurity,Transparency and Sustainable Development:African Challenges

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Notably, the 20th century was dominated by the legacy of devastating global wars, colonial struggles, and ideological conflicts as well as effort s to establish international systems that would foster global peace and prosperity. Yet, insecurity and corruption not only remain, they have become...

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Oil prices and the developing countries- the evidence of the last decade

Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1985

Many of the present difficulties of the world economy have been blamed on the two oil-price explosions of the 1970s. Professor Chichilnisky shows that, at least in the case of the oil-importing developing countries, the negative effects have been overestimated. In fact, in some respects the oil...

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Regard(s) sur l'émergence d'une économie de marché en Chine

Arvanitis, Rigas; Miège, Pierre; Zhao, Wei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

The Chinese economy does still not qualify as demand-driven economy. Its growth is based on investment. In fact … successive waves of investment have emerged during the eighties and produced a piling-up of productive systems. A wave of small … national enterprises and entrepreneurs, a second large wave of foreign direct investment from overseas Chinese mainly from Hong …

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Institutions and economic performance: a review of the theory and evidence

Ugur, Mehmet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The aim of this article is to take stock of the theoretical debate and empirical findings concerning the impact of institutions on economic performance and the channels through which the institutional impact unfolds. The review is limited to work published until 2004 due to space limitations and...

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Global e-commerce and african participation:a critical assessment

Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

investment and configuration costs as well as interactive global reach) potentially could play a pivotal role in enabling …

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Inflation as restructuring. A theoretical and empirical account of the U.S. experience

Nitzan, Jonathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992

This work is a PhD dissertation, written at the Department of Economics, McGill University. The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of...

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