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Service Sector Led Economic Growth in India and Some Measurement and Database Issues
Saikia, Dilip - 2017
In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187326
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“Economic freedom” and economic growth: questioning the claim that freer markets make societies more prosperous
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
A conventional reading of economic history implies that free market reforms rescued the world’s economies from stagnancy during the 1970s and 1980s. I reexamine a well-established econometric literature linking economic freedom to growth, and argue that their positive findings hinge on two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325575
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“Economic freedom” and economic growth: questioning the claim that freer markets make societies more prosperous
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
A conventional reading of economic history implies that free market reforms rescued the world’s economies from stagnancy during the 1970s and 1980s. I reexamine a well-established econometric literature linking economic freedom to growth, and argue that their positive findings hinge on two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257910
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Looking East, looking West: Penang as a knowledge hub
Gerke, Solvay; Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Penang has always been a focal point, absorbing knowledge (and popular culture) from civilizations to the East and West. In modern Penang the pattern of cultural contacts has changed over time. Research institutes and universities in Penang cooperate with foreign partners to produce research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009328144
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Federalism and economic development in India: An assessment
Singh, Nirvikar; Srinivasan, T.N. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper examines India’s federal system in the context of prospects for India’s future economic growth and … development. After a brief review of India’s recent policy reforms and economic development outcomes, and of the country’s federal … institutions, the analysis focuses on the major issues with respect to India’s federal system in terms of their developmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787082
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Computable General Equilibrium Simulations of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Agreement
Willenbockel, Dirk - 2019
Building upon earlier work by Willenbockel (2013; MPRA Paper No.51501), this study provides an extended ex-ante computable general equilibrium (CGE) assessment of the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement between the member states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African...
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State Control and the Effects of Foreign Relations on Bilateral Trade
Davis, Christina - 2016
intervene in markets. We examine state ownership of firms as one tool of government control. Taking China and India as examples …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978766
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Eurasian Integration and Its Institutions : Possible Contributions to Security in Eurasia
Vinokurov, Evgeny; Libman, Alexander - 2017
The authors turn to the large family of institutions that came into existence in post-Soviet Eurasia (and, in some ways, beyond it) over the last two decades. The researchers review their current state, agenda, real and perceived mandate, and their respective achievements and constraints. The...
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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
Preface Over the last decade and a half the global economic order has been undergoing major changes. While this may be thought to reflect the results of a multilateral and participatory process involving debate and negotiations, in reality it has been mostly driven by the economic interests of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109162
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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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