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Investment and inequality in Africa: which financial channels are good for the poor?
Simplice A., Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
provide new insights into the two contrasting theories in the finance-inequality nexus. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372548
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Finance and inequality: exploring pro-poor investment channels in Africa
Simplice A., Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Hitherto very few studies on the inequality-finance(investment) nexus have focused on the African continent owing to … how finance affects pro-poor investment channels. Findings reveal, but for the case of foreign investment, financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372610
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Mutual Funds and Segregated Funds: A Comparison
Palombizio, Ennio A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Mutual Funds are the most common form of investment for the average household. They offer a fair amount of return for a limited amount of risk. Segregated Funds, which are, simply put, mutual funds with additional features, have grown in popularity as of late. It is something of great interest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621847
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Cooperative comebacks: resilience in the face of the Hurricane Katrina Catastrophe (New Orleans and Southern Mississippi, May 2005–May 2006)
Klinedinst, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Millions of lives were dramatically changed by Hurricane Katrina, the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Numerous businesses were wiped out. People lost their homes, their livelihoods, their lives. Nearly two years after Katrina, some sectors of the aff ected region have proved to be more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833299
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Introduction to Recent Developments in Alternative Finance: Empirical Assessments and Economic Implications
Barnett, William A.; Jawadi, Fredj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper is the introduction to the forthcoming book, Recent Developments in Alternative Finance: Empirical … Assessments and Economic Implications, Proceedings of Second International Symposium in Computational Economics and Finance. The … finance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108673
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On the substitution of institutions and finance in investment
Asongu, Simplice - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The Ali (2013, EB) findings on the nexuses among institutions, finance and investment could have an important influence … finance and institutions because they are less realistic to developing countries to which the resulting policy implications … substitution of institutions and finance in investment. Results under many baseline and augmented scenarios are not consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108883
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A Short-run Schumpeterian Trip to Embryonic African Monetary Zones
Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
With the spectre of the Euro crisis looming substantially large and scaring potential monetary unions, this study is a short-run trip to embryonic African monetary zones to assess the Schumpeterian thesis for positive spillovers of financial services on growth. Causality analysis is performed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112651
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Some Lessons from Korea's Industrialization Strategy and Experience
Romana, Sta.; L, Leonardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We look at Korea's industrialization strategy and experience from the 1960s to the mid-1990s. Three elements of the Korean industrial development and structural change are discussed: 1) its outward orientation and export push, 2) its climb up the ladder of comparative advantage, and 3) its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112182
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National or international public funding? Subsidies or loans? Evaluating the innovation impact of R&D support programmes
Huergo, Elena; Moreno, Lourdes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The objective of this study is to compare the effect of different types of public support for R&D projects on firms’ technological capabilities. We distinguish be-tween low-interest loans and subsidies and between national and European sup-port. Using data on 2,319 Spanish firms during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259006
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The Legal Framework of Vietnam’s Water Sector: Update 2013
Nguyen, Thi Phuong Loan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In order to deal with problems related to both water quality and quantity as well as to strengthen the sustainable and integrative management of the nation’s water resources, the Vietnamese Government has adopted a wide spectrum of laws and regulations. In recent years, more than 300 water...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259077