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The World of Forking Paths : Latin America and the Caribbean Facing Global Economic Risks
Powell, Andrew - 2012
This report details the divergent paths that the world economy may take and their potential effects on Latin America and the Caribbean. Scenarios are constructed employing a modeling exercise that captures the trade, financial and other linkages between the region and the rest of the world....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108195
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Southeast Asia in the New Global Economy : Emerging Challenges from Africa and Latin America
Cammack, Paul - 2014
The purpose of this paper is to set the issue of Chinese investment in Southeast Asia in two contexts: the changing geography of economic growth and patterns of trade and investment across the world as a whole, and the accompanying quiet revolution that has taken place in the international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067322
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Emerging Market Multinationals from Latin America : Analyzing the Internationalization Patterns and M&As Corporate Strategies of Mexico's Largest Companies
Jarque, Eduardo - 2017
Utilizing a unique data set based on companies' annual reports and local leading financial publications; data from privatization of state-controlled enterprises; world merger and acquisitions (M&As) and financial data from the Mexican (BMV) and New York (NYSE) stock exchanges, this paper studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960619
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Globalization and inequality in Latin America
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - 2023
We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on research emerging from the late 2000s onward, with an emphasis on empirical work considering new mechanisms, studying new dimensions of inequality, and developing new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014536261
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Economic analysis and forecasting in the global economy and in emerging and developing regions including Africa : how informative is the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)?
Garnitz, Johanna; Leibfritz, Willi - 2016
Economists around the world rely in addition to official statistics on business (and consumer) surveys, which are more up-to-date. However, for many emerging and developing countries there is a lack of such surveys. This gap can, at least partly, be filled by the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547810
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Incentive contracts and efficient unemployment benefits
Demougin, Dominique (contributor); Helm, Carsten (contributor) - 2008
Several European countries have reformed their labor market institutions. Incentive effects of unemployment benefits have been an important aspect of these reforms. We analyze this issue in a principal-agent model, focusing on unemployment levels and labor productivity. In our model, a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784365
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Incentive contracts and efficient unemployment benefits
Demougin, Dominique; Helm, Carsten - 2009
Several European countries have reformed their labor market institutions. Incentive effects of unemployment benefits have been an important aspect of these reforms. We analyze this issue in a principal-agent model, focusing on unemployment levels and labor productivity. In our model, a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850266
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Incentive contracts and efficient unemployment benefits in a globalized world
Helm, Carsten; Demougin, Dominique - 2012
Several European countries have reformed their labor market institutions. Incentive effects of unemployment benefits have been an important aspect of these reforms. We analyze this issue in a principal-agent model, focusing on unemployment levels and labor productivity. In our model, a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009697870
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Globalisation versus informality : evidence from developing countries
Pham, Thi Hong Hanh - 2011
by trade opening) on informality, while relevant empirical literature has been not well developed. The paper aims to fill … this knowledge gap by shedding further light on the linkages running from globalisation to informality in developing … of indicators most likely to influence the size of informality. Our finding reveals that the indicators with consistently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346442
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Engaging with an emergent metanarrative : a critical exploration of the BOP proposition
Chatterjee, Suparna - In: Organization : the critical journal of organization, … 21 (2014) 6, pp. 888-906
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