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Factors Behind International Relocation and Changes in Production Geography in the European Automobile Components Industry
Lampón, Jesús; Lago-Peñas, Santiago - 2013
This article analyses business strategies in the automobile sector to determine the key factors behind production relocation processes in automobile components suppliers. These factors help explain changes in production geography in the sector not only in terms of location advantages but also...
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Economic Growth Dynamics Across Countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The main purpose of the paper is to analyze GDP PPP per capita growth rates across countries in the period 1980-2008, as well as to identify top and bottom country performers. In addition, the author verifies the statistical relationship between GDP PPP per capita and some arbitrary selected...
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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 …
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Comments on 'Comprehensive human development: Realities and aspirations' by Salih, S.A
Hasan, Zubair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The comments were offered at an International workshop on Comprehensive human development organized by Insaniya University college and IRTI of IDB on August 18-19, 2009 at Langkawi, Malaysia. The main contribution of the comments are that the construction of human development index is faulty,...
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Determinants of Human Resource Development: an empirical analysis
Hasan, Zubair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
Using human development index of UNDP that the main factors influencing human resource development are the level of per capita income, its rate of growth, state of income distribution, and expenditure on military. HDI tends to lag behind income growth and is inversely related to military...
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Determinants of Human Resource Development: an empirical analysis
Hasan, Zubair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
Based on the annual Human Development Reports of the UNDP, this paper finds that the main determinants of human resource development by the HDI for various economies are usually the level of per capita income, its rate of growth, expenditure on military, and the state of income distribution. It...
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Defense spending and economic growth in Asian economies: A panel error-correction approach
Habibullah, M.S.; Law, Siong-Hook; Dayang-Afizzah, A.M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Hoping to contribute to the existing pool of literature, this paper examines the relationship between military expenditure and economic growth in selected Asian countries for the period 1989 to 2004. Our panel unit root test suggests that real GDP per capita and military expenditures are )1(I...
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Military and Economic Growth in ASEAN-5 Countries
Hirnissa, M.T; Habibullah, M.S.; Baharom, A.H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this study we employ the bounds testing procedure suggested by Pesaran (2001) and dynamic OLS (DOLS) proposed by Stock and Watson (1993) to test the robustness of the causal effect and long-run relationships between military expenditure and economic growth in ASEAN-5 countries from the year...
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The Economic Background to the Gulf War
Alan, Freeman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1991
scholars throughout the world who sought to penetrate the rhetoric of war, and understand its economic and political causes. In …This chapter appeared in ‘The Economic background to the Gulf War’, in Yuval-Davis,N and Bresheeth,H (eds) The Gulf War … and the New World Order, pp153-162. London: Zed Press ISBN 1 85649 041 6 <a href="javascript:Pick it!ISBN: 1 85649 041 6 …
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Military Expenditure and Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis
Alptekin, Aynur; Levine, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Meta analysis is conducted to review 32 empirical studies with 169 estimates to find the combined overall effect of military expenditure on economic growth. Using a meta fixed and random effects and regression analysis, our results show that there exists a "genuine" net effect of military...
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