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The paper criticizes the conception of value on behalf of the conventional economic theory, blaming it for the current economic school’s incapacity to explain the actual economic crisis and to offer an adequate perspective to settle a solution. It proposes an explanation based on the tendency...
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The concept of basic needs is today at the center of many discussions about development and the international order …. Some international organizations are rethinking their prior evaluation of development policies based largely on aggregate … article is to address these questions using as a basis the Bariloche Model. This model studies development strategies oriented …
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Topic of the paper is the development of professional self-employment during the last decades in Germany. The … entrepreneurship and asks for its overlapping with categories of self-employment and of innovation. Although these terms cover only … partially the same meanings, political discourse often equals the slogan to foster entrepreneurship and innovation with an …
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development of microfinance clients beyond accessing financial services. As microfinance providers and supporters continue to …
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only international trade patterns, but also through trade, domestic patterns of economic development. Research assistance …
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This paper describes the methods used to construct an index to measure the maritime potential of nations. This prototype uses a limited number of variables to measure (a) the locational advantage of having a long coastline in comparison to the landmass (Maritime Potential Index MPI) , (b) the...
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Development geography and mainstream economic theory have for many years lived separate lives. Especially so since the … downfall of development economics, an academic subject which has repeatedly been pronounced dead by one of today’s leading US … of these changes for development geography. Especially, we shall discuss the possibilities for a process of convergence …
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The paper criticizes the conception of value on behalf of the conventional economic theory, blaming it for the current economic school’s incapacity to explain the actual economic crisis and to offer an adequate perspective to settle a solution. It proposes an explanation based on the tendency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005105673
is affected by the financial infrastructural development indicators? We find evidence in favor of a short run “financial …
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This paper attempts to reconcile two models for sustainable economic growth in developing countries. I develop an empirical and theoretical case for how the geographic landscape of a country determines the ease with which it can assimilate foreign technologies and establish institutions...
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