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Technology Convergence and Digital Divides. A Country-Level Evidence for the Period 2000-2010
Lechman, Ewa - 2015
The paper, mostly empirical in nature, investigates issues on cross-national new information and communication technologies (ICTs) adoption patterns and growth directions. In the period of 2000-2010, a great number of countries underwent substantial changes on the field of ICTs implementation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147305
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Oil prices and the developing countries- the evidence of the last decade
Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1985
Many of the present difficulties of the world economy have been blamed on the two oil-price explosions of the 1970s. Professor Chichilnisky shows that, at least in the case of the oil-importing developing countries, the negative effects have been overestimated. In fact, in some respects the oil...
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Market Information Services
Giovannucci, Daniele; Shepherd, Andrew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
creating Market Information Services for food and agriculture usually fail. The author distills experiences and lessons from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027115
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WTO and Agriculture Trade Liberalization – A Focus on China
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Agriculture sector plays a vital role in the world economy and provides food for every one of us. The World Trade … Organization (WTO) is important body in the international trade and agriculture. Surprisingly, the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA …) of WTO does not refer to food and agriculture at all. Agricultural subsidies and trade become controversial issues in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617135
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Government Spending on Education and Closing the Gender Gap : The Case of Developing Economies
Emara, Noha; Hegazy, Azza - 2021
Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of the most challenging goals for most developing economies. Using Panel Least Square with Regional Dummies (LSDV) for a sample of Developing countries over the period 1990 to 2014,...
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Education, inequality, and development in a dual economy
Yuki, Kazuhiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In the post-WWII era, most developing economies had decent economic growth, but, with current growth trends, the great majority of them are unlikely to transform into developed economies in near future. In these economies, the dual economic structure, the coexistence of the modern/formal sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261078
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The Dual Economy in Long-run Development
Vollrath, Dietrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper provides a dynamic model of the dual economy in which differences in productivity across sectors arise endogenously. Rather than relying on exogenous price distortions, duality arises because of differences between sectors in the separability of their fertility and labor decisions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837366
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Government and human capital in a model of development through modernization and specialization
Yuki, Kazuhiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
agriculture and the urban informal sector) to the modern sector (e.g. modern manufacturing and commercial agriculture). Human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476367
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Inflation as restructuring. A theoretical and empirical account of the U.S. experience
Nitzan, Jonathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
This work is a PhD dissertation, written at the Department of Economics, McGill University. The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789620
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Sustainable agriculture and rural development in terms of the republic of Serbia strategic goals realization within the Danube region. Achieving regional competitiveness
Cvijanović, Drago; Subić, Jonel; Andrei, Jean - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
International Scientific Conference „SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TERMS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA … scientific research on the integrated and interdisciplinary project no. III 46006 „SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT … Conference „SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TERMS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA STRATEGIC GOALS REALIZATION WITHIN …
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