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Kierunki ewolucji polityki Unii Europejskiej na rzecz małych i średnich przedsiębiorstw i przedsiębiorczości
Wach, Krzysztof - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The aim of the article is the presentation as well as the analysis of the most important directions of the European Union activities in favour of entrepreneurship, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The historical outline of SMEs’ community policy shaping was introduced....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147858
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Innovation and competition in EU15: Empirical evidence on the Lisbon Decade and beyond
Ugur, Mehmet; Guner, Umit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
knowledge-based economy in the world’ by 2010. This paper aims to ascertain the extent to which various indicators of innovation … this end, we provide a descriptive account of the competition and innovation indicators from 1980-2008. Then, we discuss … the relationship between market structure (level of competition) and innovation; and estimate the impact of the former on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685581
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Relative or absolute poverty in the US and EU? The battle of the rates
Notten, Geranda; Neubourg, Chris de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
US poverty is much higher than poverty in Europe when a relative poverty measure is used. Using an absolute poverty measurement method, the picture looks different: poverty in some European countries is higher. This paper estimates poverty rates for all the countries of the (old) EU and the USA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836184
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Estimating the size of the potential market for all three flexibility mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
The Kyoto Protocol is the first international environmental agreement that sets legally binding greenhouse gas emissions targets and timetables for Annex I countries. It incorporates emissions trading and two project-based flexibility mechanisms, namely joint implementation and the clean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616753
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A Brief Genesis of the North Atlantic Air Transport
Grancay, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The aim of our paper is to analyze civil aviation relations between the United States of America and the European Union - constituting the most important intercontinental air transportation market in the world. Air transport between the EU and USA was traditionally regulated by bilateral Air...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619592
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The policy relevance of absolute and relative poverty headcounts: What's in a number?
Notten, Geranda; de Neubourg, Chris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Financial poverty indicators still play an important role in policymaking and evaluation. Countries such as the USA and the EU member states use one or several ‘official’ poverty indicators on which success of poverty reduction policy is regularly monitored. Whereas the US poverty indicator...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619764
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Poverty in Europe and the USA: Exchanging official measurement methods
Notten, Geranda; Neubourg, Chris de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Official poverty methodologies differ from other poverty measurement methods in the sense that the official ones are more often used as a benchmark to develop new policies as well as to evaluate the performance of existing programs. Europe has the tradition and the practice to use relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790223
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Technological learning in the Silicon Valleys of Latin America.
Ciravegna, Luciano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of the effects of FDI by illustrating that social networks affect technological learning in the Costa Rican ICT cluster in ways that the literature on technological capabilities failed to capture. It is based on extensive qualitative evidence collected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651397
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The Dynamic of Technological Capabilities of Countries: A Dual Approach Using Composite Indicators & Data Envelopment Analysis
Filippetti, Andrea; Peyrache, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
One of the main characteristics of the technological capabilities of countries has always been their uneven distribution across the countries. This paper explores the dynamic of technological capabilities for a sample of 42 countries over the period 1995-2007 introducing some methodological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529323
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Technological Capabilities Asymmetries in Latin American and the Caribbean
Gonzalez, German Hector; Dabus, Carlos Dario; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper analyzes the convergence process in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1960-2005 period. The evidence is not favorable to clear convergence or divergence trends, but to a slight process of convergence until the 1970s, and then global divergence. In turn, the results suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587472