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This paper describes the main features of the economy of Antioquia during the second half of the 19th century. It tries to identify if it followed a local economic development model. In addition to a novel reinterpretation of the economic takeoff of Antioquia, based on recent sources collected,...
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Abstract: This paper applies cointegration analysis and Granger non-causality tests in order to identify the direction of causality between migration in Greece and two macroeconomic variables: GDP and unemployment. We use annual data for the 1980-2011 period. The data are drawn from the...
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El Componente de Atención a los Desastres Naturales, “CADENA”, es un programa del Gobierno de México que acaba de … naturales prácticamente universal a nivel de la población de pequeños productores en México. Otro logro relevante consiste en … haberse convertido en el agente motor del seguro agropecuario en México, dado que ha logrado conjuntar los esfuerzos de las …
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structural economic transformation in the state of Colima (Mexico) and among its municipalities between 1980 and 2003. To this … (México) y entre sus municipios entre 1980 y 2003. Con esta finalidad, aplicamos la metodología de Garza (2004:11-14), la cual …. Main results suggest that some municipalities may be experiencing a tertiary revolution based on a growing professional …
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This document, intended to be discuss and criticized, aims for the implementation on the city of Barreiro, Portugal, of a Local Investment Agency. The final objective of such project is to allow entrepreneurs and investors to build in the city new ventures that can create employment, build an...
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Why do sudden and massive social, economic, and political changes occur when and where they do? Are there institutional preconditions that encourage such changes when present and discourage such changes when absent? I employ a general model which suggests that cascades which induce massive...
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When advising policy we face the fundamental problem that economic processes are connected with uncertainty and thus policy can err. In this paper we show how the use of simulation models can reduce policy errors. We suggest that policy is best based on so-called abductive simulation models,...
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The note gives details of the implementation of Rural Digital Services Program in Karnataka
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This essay mainly concerns the foundation of a method of inquiry appropriate to the study of social reality. It starts from a criticism of Boudon-Weber's cognitivist method, the lacks of which seem particularly qualified for underlining the methodologic difficulties afflicting social thought....
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Higher education in most European states is subject to a complex process of adaptation to the requirements formulated by Bologna process. For some states, such as Romania, this process assumes core restructuring of the content, aimed to its compatibility with that from prestigious European...
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