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Social Development – A Multidimensional Approach To Social Development Analysis. Country Level Evidence for Year 2011
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
, we apply: descriptive statistics analysis, Kernel Epanechnikov density (to check for world distribution of social welfare … Affairs, Population Division; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; World Health Organization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147310
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Do Sufficient Institutions Alter the Relationship between Natural Resources and Economic Growth?
Zeynalov, Ayaz - 2014
The purpose of this paper is to test whether institutional governance and its performance is a main driving force to achieve a positive relationship between natural resources and economic growth in the long run. The main objective is to ascertain what kind of institutional governance would be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056564
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Do University Rankings Matter for Growth?
Tan Kuan Lu, Clifford - 2014
I investigate the relationship between university rankings and economic growth and found that the relationship is statistically significant. The more the number of universities that a country has in international university rankings, the higher its GDP per capita. What is more surprising is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061096
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Economic Growth Dynamics Across Countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The main purpose of the paper is to analyze GDP PPP per capita growth rates across countries in the period 1980-2008, as well as to identify top and bottom country performers. In addition, the author verifies the statistical relationship between GDP PPP per capita and some arbitrary selected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147300
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Characteristics of the financial crisis in 2008 and its implications on Romanian economy
Liviu-George, Maha; Dragos-Florentin, Mariciuc - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper tries to underline the most important aspects of the financial crisis in Romania. Taking into account the information speed, the full integration of the capital markets and the commercial integration, the economic crisis of 2008 is certainly a global one and it has repercussions not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008753088
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Business Groups, Innovation and Institutional Voids in Latin America
Fulvio, Castellacci - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
-specific institutional factors – financial, legal, and labor market institutions – affect the group-innovation relationship. The empirical … analysis is based on the most recent wave of the World Bank Enterprise Survey (period 2010-2011), and it focuses on a sample of …, GAFs are more innovative than SAFs: we estimate the innovation propensity of GAFs to be 9% higher than that of SAFs …
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Revisiting the Informal Sector: A General Equilibrium Approach
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Mukhopadhyay, Ujjaini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
During the last 50 years with unprecedented population growth and urbanization, economic development, particularly in developing countries failed to generate adequate employment and income opportunities in the modern sector, compelling the surplus labour force to generate its own means of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259973
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China-Africa’s Emerging Economic Links: A review under the Core-Periphery perspective
Maswana, Jean-Claude - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This essay has explored the validity of Marxist dependency theories in the context of the emerging China-Africa trade and economic relations. Whereas dependency theory assumes that economic domination runs across north-south geoeconomic patterns, this discussion has shown that the China-Africa...
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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
achieved many of its objectives in the Uruguay Round, its proposals for a new liberal world economic order have still not been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109162
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Managing Economic Solution for a global sustainable Development
Dumitrescu, Luigi; Mihaescu, Liviu; Mihaescu, DIiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We live in an imperfect world. The poverty, the disease, the lack of education, the environmental destruction, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113737