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Standardization and ethnocracy in Sri Lanka
DeVotta, Neil - 2022
Standardization was the scheme that replaced meritocracy in Sri Lanka education, with positive discrimination to … the island becoming an ethnocracy. While standardization was later discarded, its legacy continues thanks to the district … quota system it fostered and the inequalities it helped to cement between ethnic groups. Ultimately, standardization did not …
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Spillover effects of international standards : work conditions in Vietnamese small and medium enterprises
Trifković, Neda - 2015
Most studies focus on trade effects and organizational outcomes of international standards, neglecting the effect of standards on employees. Using a two-year matched firm-employee panel dataset, this paper finds that the application of standards improves work conditions in small and medium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517068
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Drivers of productivity in Vietnamese SMEs : the role of management standards and innovation
Calza, Elisa; Goedhuys, Micheline; Trifković, Neda - 2017
Using a rich panel dataset of SMEs active in the manufacturing sector in Viet Nam, this paper investigates the drivers of firm productivity, focusing on the role played by international management standards certification. We develop and test the hypothesis that, controlling for technological...
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Certification and business risk
Trifković, Neda - 2018
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the scope for international private standards to play a role in reducing business risk. Business risk is measured as variability in revenue, customer base, informal payments, and temporary firm closure. The results show lower levels of business risk...
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Comparing global inequality of income and wealth
Davies, James B.; Shorrocks, Anthony F. - 2018
income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini … reduced world inequality. Income inequality has changed little within countries, so the downward trend remains intact. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947029
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Globalizing Shanghai : international migration and the global city
Shen, Wei - 2010
inevitably competing with other cities in China and Asia for the best brains in the world. This paper therefore aims to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662259
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Mozambique's elite : finding its way in a globalized world and returning to old development models
Hanlon, Joseph; Mosse, Marcelo - 2010
What makes elites developmental instead of predatory? We argue that Mozambique's elite was developmental at independence 35 years ago. With pressure and encouragement from international forces, it became predatory. It has now partly returned to its developmental roots and is trying to use the...
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Inequality, income and poverty : comparative global evidence
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2010
Analysing a large sample of 1980 - 2004 unbalanced panel data, the current study presents comparative global evidence on the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency of high inequality to decrease the rate at which income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008663079
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Climate change and industrial policy
Naudé, Wim - 2011
This paper explores the implications of climate change for industrial policy (IP). Five implications are discussed, namely the need for international coordination of IPs; for putting human development, and not emission targets, as the overriding objective of low-carbon IP; of stimulating...
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Interrelationships among health, environment quality, and economic activity : what consequences for economic convergence?
Drabo, Alassane - 2011
This paper examines the link between health indicators, environmental variables, and economic development, and the consequences of this relationship on economic convergence. In the early stage of economic development, the gain from income growth could be cancelled or mitigated by environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009159760