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In search of larger per capita incomes : how to prioritize across productivity determinants?
Izquierdo, Alejandro; Llopis, Jimena; Muratori, Umberto; … - 2016
This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to obtain the equivalent of a "shadow price" for each of these capabilities by estimating their impact on the success a country may have in reaching higher income per capita groups....
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Surviving competition : neighborhood shops vs. convenience chains
Talamas Marcos, Miguel Ángel - 2023
Hundreds of millions of microenterprises in emerging economies face increased competition from the entry and expansion of large firms that offer similar products. This paper studies how one of the world's most prevalent microenterprises, neighborhood shops, confront competition from convenience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014536676
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Political institutions, policymaking, and economic policy in Latin America
Ardanaz, Martin; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - 2010
features that seem to determine development depends on the workings of political institutions, which define how the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247135
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Social mobility and political regimes : intergenerational mobility in Hungary, 1949-2017
Bukowski, Paweł; Clark, Gregory; Gáspár, Attila; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012792949
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Work values in Western and Eastern Europe
Torgler, Benno - 2011
The paper reports on work values in Europe. At the country level we find that job satisfaction is related to lower working hours, higher well-being, and a higher GDP per capita. Moving to the micro level, we turn our attention from job satisfaction to analyse empirically work centrality and work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009419750
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Interrelationships between human capital, migration and labour markets in the Western Balkans : an econometric investigation
Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021
The high outward mobility that has characterised the countries in the Western Balkan (WB) region over the past three decades is often seen as tightly linked to severe labour market imbalances and persistently low utilisation of human capital over time. To shed light on these issues, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485454
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China and the World Trade Organisation : towards a better fit
Mavroidis, Petros C.; Sapir, André - 2019
China's accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001 was hailed as the natural conclusion of a long march that started with the reforms of Deng Xiaoping in the 1970s. However, China's participation in the WTO has been anything but smooth. Its self-proclaimed socialist market economy system...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301905
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The two waves of service-sector growth
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - 2009
-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832280
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Trade and geography in the economic origins of Islam : theory and evidence
Michalopulos, Stelios; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2010 - This draft: May, 2010
This research examines the economic origins of Islam and uncovers two empirical regularities. First, Muslim countries, virtual countries and ethnic groups, exhibit highly unequal regional agricultural endowments. Second, Muslim adherence is systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729038
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Social responsibility as a driver for local sustainable development
Costantino, Elena; Marchello, Maria Paola; Mezzano, Cecilia - 2010
”, sustaining the multi-stakeholder approach as a driver toward local sustainable development. Firstly, theoretical approaches to … sustainable development at the territorial level will be examined, identifying the most innovative ideas about governance, network … relation and development theories. The idea of development focuses not only on the economic aspects, but on the structural and …
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