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efficiency-enhancing redistribution improves everyone’s welfare including the welfare of those whose labor finances the … ability to enhance efficiency through the direct enforcement of property rights. In this case, redistribution can make all …In a world where the private protection of property is costly, government redistribution can lead to an increase in …
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This study of the Italian wool-based textile industries (woollens, worsteds, and serges) seeks to examine its rise, expansion, and ultimate decline, over a period of five centuries (from ca. 1200 to ca. 1730) in the context of both international competition and economic conjoncture, in the...
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This paper explores the economic policy of the Ottoman Empire during the Abdul Hamid II's reign and the Young Turks period focusing on the fiscal crisis which exposed the Empire to an increasing financial dependence on European capital markets, leading to bankruptcy in 1876 and to the subsequent...
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A recurrent and indeed persistent problem in European economic history – a veritable deus ex machina -- from medieval to modern times, is Europe’s supposed ‘balance of payments’ problem in trade with the ‘East’. This supposed problem has often been couched in Mercantilist overtones:...
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of the Arabic book translation industry in Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and Syria; (2) to understand …
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management status quo in Syria and explore the possibility of new policy interventions. The analysis has been carried out through … selected Farming Systems in order to underline the key aspects of risk management in Syria: while providing empirical evidences … of the main issues in risk management in Syria, the paper aims to put new feasible policy interventions under the …
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performance of the Arabic book translation industry in Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and Syria; (2) to understand …
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trade policy scenarios scenarios for Syria: Participation in preferential trading arrangements, and changes in the domestic …
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and efficiency of public institutions may compromise social order. The strengthening of institutional trust may also …
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gender and sector. The paper utilizes Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) Labor Force Surveys for the years 1999 …
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