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Status, fertility, growth and the great transition
Tournemaine, Frederic; Tsoukis, Christopher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We develop an overlapping generation model to examine how the relationship between status concerns, fertility and … facts about fertility during the "great transition". …
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KESC’s Performance, is it due to the Financial Crisis at KESC?
Hasan, Syed Akif; Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz; Osman, Ms. Amber - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Karachi Electric Supply Co. (KESC) is power utility company serving more than 2.1 million consumers. It covers around 6000 km of vast area to supply electricity. It has been more than 10 to 20 years that this company is suffering from poor financial position due to which it is not able to...
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Globalization and WTO: Impact on India’s economic growth and export
Pandey, Alok Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The roots of newly emerging forces of globalization exist in specific economic and political development in the late 1980s and early1990s. From other regulatory measures to correct the prevailing distortions in the Indian economy, government of India introduced Structural Adjustment Programmes...
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The Characteristics of the Evolution of the Economical Indicators
Stegaroiu, Carina-Elena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
After the criterion of time to examine the evolution of the indicator values that can be given at the time (eg number of human population in year t) or the time (eg GDP in year t). The indicators characterizing economic development are absolute growth, growth rate, the rate increase.
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The Vicious Cycle of the Foreign Military Debt
Stavrinos, Vasilios G.; Zombanakis, George A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
This paper aims at estimating first the effects of defense spending on the main determinants of growth, and second the extent to and the channels through which the military debt of Greece influences the overall debt burden of the country, and consequently the critical determinants of economic...
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Did liberal eonomic regime contribute to the growth performance of the manufacturing sector in India?
Albin, Thaarcis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper attempts to verify whether liberal economic measures introduced in India since 1991/92 has brought any statistically significant growth difference in the growth performance of the manufacturing sector in India. It used the time series data from 1973/74 to 2007/08. Periodised it based...
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A Time Series Analysis of Foreign Aid and Income Inequality in Pakistan
Ali, Sharafat; Ahmad, Najid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Pakistan economy is one of those economies that has received a huge amount of foreign aid. Foreign aid has been considered to help capital-deficient economies to fulfill the desired levels of finances to generate growth, increase employment and income, and furthermore, it helps to alleviate...
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Livestock: A Reliable Source of Income Generation and Rehabilitation of Environment at Tharparkar
Herani, Gobind M.; Pervez, Mohammad Wasim; Rajar, Allah … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper attempts to identify the farming and growth rate of livestock and demographic conditions helping in its growth and focus is specially to examine: (i) to know the trend of growth of performance of livestock farming; (ii) to promote fencing of farmland and conservation of rangeland for...
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Child Allowances, Educational Subsidies and Economic Growth
Chen, Hung-Ju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines the effects on economic growth attributable to government policies of child allowances and educational subsidies. We show that multiple steady states may arise under these two policies, with club convergence occurring, and the initial condition being of relevance, if the tax...
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Fertility treatments and the use of twin births as an instrument for fertility
Braakmann, Nils; Wildman, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Twin births are often used as an instrument for fertility in models investigating the impact of family size on labour … market and child outcomes. However, a large share of twin births (24% in our sample) are the result of fertility treatments … show that (a) mothers with and without fertility treatment are different, (b) twin births are still random after …
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