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Assessing the Impact of Ease of Doing Business and Corruption on Economic Growth for Africa Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) Member States

Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2018

A positive economic growth is one crucial macroeconomic objective of every nation. Many countries have formed regional as well as international trading blocs in an attempt to enhance economic growth and maximise welfare of each member state, the AFTZ member states are not an exception. This...

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Market Access Strategies in the EU Banking Sector - Obstacles and Benefits Towards an Integrated European Retail Market

Beckmann, Rainer - 2010

The integration process in the European banking sector considerably differs with regard to product types. Deep integration can be observed in the money market as well as the market for wholesale products. In contrast to that, a strong segmentation of national markets still exists in the field of...

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Options for Export Diversification and Faster Export Growth in Ghana

Chandra, Vandana; Osorio-Rodarte, Israel - 2013

This paper discusses how Ghana’s path to a middle income status does not have to be paved with only manufactured products. There are multiple paths and processed natural resources-based products are not necessarily a curse, and if Ghana wants and it builds the requisite capacity, it can turn...

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Determinants of the propensity to export: the case of small firms in the diesel engine and chemicals industries in Gujarat

Keshari, Pradeep Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995

traits determine an entrepreneur's decision to export from an industry have been few and far between. Using a sample of small …

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Foreign direct investment, development and the new global economic order. A policy brief for the South

Singh, Ajit; Zammit, Josephine Ann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997

Preface Over the last decade and a half the global economic order has been undergoing major changes. While this may be thought to reflect the results of a multilateral and participatory process involving debate and negotiations, in reality it has been mostly driven by the economic interests of...

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Employer-provided training and knowledge spillovers: evidence from Italian local labour markets

Croce, Giuseppe; Ghignoni, Emanuela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Following suggestions from theoretical and empirical literature on agglomeration and on social returns to education which emphasise the contribution of local knowledge spillovers to productivity and wage growth, this paper aims at uncovering the relationship between local human capital and...

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Labour Market Segmentation, Clusters, Mobility and Unemployment Duration with Individual Microdata

Álvarez de Toledo, Pablo; Núñez, Fernando; Usabiaga, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This article proposes empirical tools to account for the role of heterogeneities in the labour matching process, and shows an application to the Andalusian labour market which relies on individual microdata. Firstly, by considering that the labour market is segmented when workers of a specific...

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Overeducation and spatial flexibility in Italian local labour markets

Croce, Giuseppe; Ghignoni, Emanuela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

According to a recent strand of literature this paper highlights the relevance of spatial mobility as an explanatory factor of the individual risk of being overeducated. To investigate the causal link between spatial mobility and overeducation we use individual information about daily...

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Export decisions of services firms between agglomeration effects and market-entry costs

Kox, Henk L.M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The paper tests the role of agglomeration effects on the export decision of services firms. Recent theories on trade … with heterogeneous firms predict that export participation goes along with sunk market-entry costs. Only the more … anticipated market-entry cost for export starters. This effect is strongest in markets with more or less homogeneous products. I …

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Private manufacturing SMEs survival and growth in Vietnam: The role of export participation

Vu, Van Huong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This study investigates for the first time a linkage between export participation and firm performance in terms of … the survival probability between exporters and non-exporters. By digging deeper to export status at different stages, the … results indicate that continuous exporters have a positive association with probability of survival whereas export stoppers …

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