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Pobreza: percepción y enfoques. Un análisis para Venezuela
Rueda, Acevedo; Alexis, Rafael; Peña, Omaira; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This article discusses the phenomenon of poverty under a multi-method approach. This in principle provides a theoretical tonnage based on the revision of some works by some scholars, who have ventured on the scourge analyzed in some countries including Venezuela, to well, make way for a deeper...
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Learning from the makers of history: Bolshevism, Bolivarianism, and the Legacy of Hugo Chavez
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This is a pre-publication version of an article published by the journal ‘America Latina XXI’. It was originally produced as a tribute to Hugo Chavez and a critical reflection on his reception outside Venezuela, on the occasion of his death.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258648
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El consumo, ingreso y ahorro del Venezolano: un primer análisis descriptivo de la V República
Rueda, Acevedo; Alexis, Rafael; Sanchez, Yasmin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In January 1999, Hugo Chavez was sworn like the president of the Republic of Venezuela. In the late 1999 was approved the Bolivarian Constitution and was the beginning of the V Republic. Currently, after 14 years, Venezuela is governed by his politic party. This article starts a research work to...
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Determinants and effects of direct foreign investment in Cote d'Ivoire, Morocco, and Venezuela
Harrison, Ann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995
Despite the voluminous literature on direct foreign investment in the 1960s and 1970s, the empirical evidence on spillovers from foreign sources of equity investment remains slim. This chapter draws on new data sources for Cote d'lvoire, Morocco, and Venezuela to explore two related questions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647400
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Threatening to increase productivity
Bridgman, Benjamin; Gomes, Victor; Teixeira, Arilton - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The wave of privatization in the 1980s and 1990s increased productivity of many previously state owned enterprises (SOEs). However, governments often do not have su±cient support to privatize SOEs. We provide evidence that threatening privatization and market competition (entry of new firms)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277298
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The gasoline Industry in European Union and the USA
Polemis, Michail; Fotis, Panagiotis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper explores whether asymmetric pricing can be identified in the eleven euro zone countries (Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain) by utilizing Error Correction Model on the weekly price changes in order to assess current and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372526
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Corruption’s and Democracy’s effects on Economic Growth
Zaouali, Amira - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Economists have a long argue that political process such as democracy and corruption are important for economic growth …. Our objective in this paper is to demonstrate that one of democracy's indirect posititive effects is its ability to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107346
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Does Democracy Impact Economic Growth? Exploring the Case of Bangladesh – A Cointegrated VAR Approach
Dasgupta, Shouro; Bhattacharya, Debapriya; Neethi, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
of democracy in 1991. This paper examines the impact of democracy on economic growth in Bangladesh using a cointegrated … Vector Autoregressive model. Results suggest that democracy as practiced in Bangladesh does not seem to have a significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108292
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Working For the Few: Political Capture and Economic Inequality
Fuentes-Nieva, Ricardo; Galasso, V. Nicholas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Economic inequality is rapidly increasing in the majority of countries. The wealth of the world is divided in two: almost half going to the richest one percent; the other half to the remaining 99 percent. The World Economic Forum has identified this as a major risk to human progress. Extreme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110965
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The Glue of Democracy: Economics, Warfare and Values in Classical Greece
Kyriazis, Nicholas; Paparrigopoulos, Xenophon; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
its hoplites, and the trieres at sea, its economic base, and the emergence of democracy in classical Greece. We propose … again were the necessary conditions for the emergence of democracy, then again, a unique phenomenon. We then turn to … seapower, which according to our analysis was a sufficient condition for the establishment and endurance of democracy, because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111263