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Development patterns and the international order
Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1977
The concept of basic needs is today at the center of many discussions about development and the international order. Some international organizations are rethinking their prior evaluation of development policies based largely on aggregate economic output, in particular, the welfare of the very...
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Measuring the maritime potential of nations. The CenPRIS ocean index, phase one (ASEAN)
Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper describes the methods used to construct an index to measure the maritime potential of nations. This prototype uses a limited number of variables to measure (a) the locational advantage of having a long coastline in comparison to the landmass (Maritime Potential Index MPI) , (b) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147910
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Developing Economies with Industrial Policy: Towards a Toolbox for Economic Growth. With Case Studies of Jordan and Egypt
Benner, Maximilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
During the past two decades, the “Washington Consensus” has been the dominant recipe for unleashing economic growth in developing countries. In view of the strong criticism mounted against it, it seems to have lost prominence recently. The success of the East Asian newly industrialized...
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Deregulation, economic growth and growth acceleration
Stankov, Petar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper analyzes the influence of credit-, labor-, and product market deregulation policies on economic growth in … work finds that deregulation contributed to the per capita GDP levels of the early reformers relatively more than to the … acceleration effect for the late reformers, which points to large dynamic welfare gains from deregulation. The latter result …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693569
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Is “economic freedom” strictly free market capitalism? A decompositional analysis of the Economic Freedom of the World index
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The Frasier Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World is often taken as a metric of market capitalism. This paper argues that the index is an amalgam of measures capturing free markets and good governance, and analysts should remain cognizant of this conceptual conflation when using the index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560960
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Social Development – A Multidimensional Approach To Social Development Analysis. Country Level Evidence for Year 2011
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
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Inclusive Growth Through Creation of Human and Social Capital
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper analyses inclusive growth that focuses on the creation of opportunities for all. Inclusive growth allows people to contribute to and benefit from economic growth, while pro-poor growth approaches focusing on welfare of the poor only to reduce inequality. Recently, economics literature...
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Economic growth dynamics across countries.
Ewa, Lechman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Economic growth is one of the most important issues discussed worldwide. Its dynamics over time seem to be crucial from the perspective of the ability of poor countries to catch up with highly developed economies. As can be easily noticed in world statistics, both GDP per capita and GDP growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258876
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Monetary systems, sustainable growth and inclusive economic development
Omerčević, Edo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The main objective of this study is to review the literature on monetary issues and discuss how money and monetary systems contribute to the achievement of sustainable growth and inclusive economic development. The paper is based on an extensive review of literature that deals with monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261028
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Microfinancing for Poverty Reduction and Economic Development; a Case for Nigeria
Awojobi, Omotola; Bein, Murad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The main focus of this research is to juxtapose the features of microfinancing and the institutional forbearance of economic development in Nigeria. Based on empirical study, it has been observed that poverty is multifaceted and its persistence is due to lack of productive resources. The...
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