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Social Development – A Multidimensional Approach To Social Development Analysis. Country Level Evidence for Year 2011
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
, we apply: descriptive statistics analysis, Kernel Epanechnikov density (to check for world distribution of social welfare … Affairs, Population Division; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; World Health Organization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147310
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Characteristics of the financial crisis in 2008 and its implications on Romanian economy
Liviu-George, Maha; Dragos-Florentin, Mariciuc - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper tries to underline the most important aspects of the financial crisis in Romania. Taking into account the information speed, the full integration of the capital markets and the commercial integration, the economic crisis of 2008 is certainly a global one and it has repercussions not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008753088
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The Us Dollar, the Euro, and the Yen : An Evaluation of Their Present and Future Status as International Currencies
Beckmann, Rainer - 2010
The paper evaluates the present and future international currency status of the US dollar, the euro and the yen. In section two the functions, benefits, and costs of a leading international currency are discussed. In section three key determinants for the continuous dominance of the US dollar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136590
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The Cost of Capital in Markets with Opaque Intermediaries and the Risk-Structure of Interest Rates
Mierzejewski, Fernando - 2009
The demand for cash balances of financial intermediaries that establish contractual liabilities with credit-sensitive customers is characterized. As stated by Merton, the success of the business activities of such firms crucially depends on their credit quality, and hence, they are obliged to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160192
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Revisiting the Informal Sector: A General Equilibrium Approach
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Mukhopadhyay, Ujjaini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
During the last 50 years with unprecedented population growth and urbanization, economic development, particularly in developing countries failed to generate adequate employment and income opportunities in the modern sector, compelling the surplus labour force to generate its own means of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259973
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China-Africa’s Emerging Economic Links: A review under the Core-Periphery perspective
Maswana, Jean-Claude - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This essay has explored the validity of Marxist dependency theories in the context of the emerging China-Africa trade and economic relations. Whereas dependency theory assumes that economic domination runs across north-south geoeconomic patterns, this discussion has shown that the China-Africa...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621967
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Foreign direct investment, development and the new global economic order. A policy brief for the South
Singh, Ajit; Zammit, Josephine Ann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
achieved many of its objectives in the Uruguay Round, its proposals for a new liberal world economic order have still not been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109162
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Managing Economic Solution for a global sustainable Development
Dumitrescu, Luigi; Mihaescu, Liviu; Mihaescu, DIiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We live in an imperfect world. The poverty, the disease, the lack of education, the environmental destruction, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113737
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The Effectiveness of Competition Policy: An Econometric Assessment in Developed and Developing Countries
Samà, Danilo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The ultimate objective of the present paper is to empirically investigate the effectiveness of competition policy in developed and developing countries. Although its importance is continuously increasing, the effectiveness of competition policy still seems to lack the attention that it would...
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Perceptions of intellectual property: a review
Ghafele, Roya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
discourse on IP and globalization. The one is interested in advancing the knowledge economy, an approach based on the belief … advance the process of globalization. While the former is strongly motivated by new economic growth theory, as for example … advanced by Stanford professor Paul Romer, the latter is based on typical anti-globalization arguments, such as for example the …
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