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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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, industrialization in dependent countries in 1960 is found to be significantly lower than in sovereign countries. This result is shown to …
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important in the process of industrialization, the transition from agriculture to industry among unfavorable land endowment … effects of cooperation on the intensive margin of agriculture, low land productivity countries lagged behind during the … were overtaken in the process of industrialization; (ii) lower level of land productivity in the past is associated with …
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industrialization and comparative economic development across the globe. Exploiting exogenous sources of variations in land productivity …
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This paper highlights the global economic prosperity and portrays the anatomy of poverty in developing countries. It analyses the incidence of rural and urban poverty persisting in fourteen countries including India. It address the contradiction of coexistence of poverty and hyper economic...
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change impacts in Europe by the end of this century. The study uses a large set of climate model runs and impact categories … (ten impacts: agriculture, energy, river floods, droughts, forest fires, transport infrastructure, coasts, tourism, habitat …
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This article analyses business strategies in the automobile sector to determine the key factors behind production relocation processes in automobile components suppliers. These factors help explain changes in production geography in the sector not only in terms of location advantages but also...
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The Chhotanagpur Plateau in Eastern India lies on the so-called Tribal belt and is one of the poorest regions of India. Beginning in 1998, the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata and the International Rice Research Institute began research to examine the biophysical and socioeconomic factors...
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Migration has been a recurrent phenomenon since the dawn of human history. Though its form has changed but it remains a dominant event in the global social system. In modern days also people migrate from underdeveloped areas to the developed ones in search of better opportunities. A number of...
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Migration has been a recurrent phenomenon since the dawn of human history. Though its form has changed but it remains a dominant event in the global social system. In modern days also people migrate from underdeveloped areas to the developed ones in search of better opportunities. A number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111439