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India's economic growth: From socialist rate of growth to Bharatiya rate of growth
Virmani, Arvind - 2004
Paper reviews India's growth performance since independence. Phrases suchas "Hindu Rate of Growth," sometimes make a telling comment and expose obscureeconomic data to a wider audience, but they can just as readily obscure reality byfocussing attention on the wrong issue. There is nothing in the...
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Macroeconomic determinants of exit from aid-dependence
Hailu, Degol; Shiferaw, Admasu - 2012
maintaining moderate inflation, the rate of investment; aggressive effort at domestic resource mobilisation; and structural change …
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India's Macroeconomic Performance and Policies since 2000
Acharya, Shankar - 2008
macroeconomic developments regarding economic growth, inflation, external balance, the fiscal situation and aggregate savings and …
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Reform and oversight mechanisms are not enough: Access to justice for workers and employment standards in Central Eastern European countries
Muszyński, Karol - 2020
From a strictly formal point of view, employment regulation in Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia (CEECs) provides an acceptable level of protection for employees. However, workers' formal rights are being violated and circumvented on a massive scale. Because the oversight system is...
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Digital labour in Central and Eastern Europe: Evidence from the ETUI internet and platform work survey
Piasna, Agnieszka; Drahokoupil, Jan - 2019
This working paper presents the results of the ETUI Internet and Platform Work Survey conducted in Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Slovakia in 2018-2019. The objective is to map the extent of digital labour in central and eastern Europe (CEE). We analyse two types of online sources for...
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Monetary policy under alternative exchange rate regimes in Central and Eastern Europe
Ziegler, Christina - 2012
inflation as one component of future real wages. This paper scrutinizes whether countries in CEE that officially announce an … inflation target are tempted to act time-inconsistently and switch from the announced inflation target to an exchange rate … target in order to sustain higher output via surprise inflation. If market participants discover the time-inconsistency, they …
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Eastern enlargement of the EU: Jobs, investment and welfare in present member countries
Heijdra, Ben J.; Keuschnigg, Christian; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2001
Eastern enlargement of the EU promises gains, but also imposes fiscal costs on incumbent countries. A sensitive issue concerns immigration, jobs and wages. We address these issues in a general equilibrium framework, both analytically and through numerical simulations. Analytical results identify...
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Does excessive sovereign debt really hurt growth? A critique of This time is different, by Reinhart and Rogoff
Nersisyan, Yeva; Wray, L. Randall - 2010
depress growth. There are other arguments related to more immediate effects of debt on inflation and national solvency …
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Seven replies to the critiques of Modern Money Theory
Tymoigne, Éric - 2021
Modern Money Theory (MMT) has generated considerable scrutiny and discussions over the past decade. While it has gained some acceptance in the financial sector and among some politicians, it has come under strong criticisms from all sides of the academic spectrum and from conservative political...
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Real exchange rates and the long-run effects of aggregate demand in economies with underemployment
Skott, Peter; Rapetti, Martin; Razmi, Arslan - 2012
Successful economic development to a large extent derives from the mobilization of underemployed resources. Demand policy can play an important role. It is critical, however, to consider balance of payments constraints and to ensure an expansion of investment in the modern sector. A combination...
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