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Regulation of the Electricity Industry in Bolivia: Its Impact on Access to the Poor, Prices and Quality

Bojanic, Antonio; Krakowski, Michael - 2003

This paper takes stock with the results of utility privatization in Bolivia. This paper deals with the process of … electricity industry has indeed lessen poverty levels in urban Bolivia by making this utility more accessible to larger segments … of the urban population. The same cannot be said, however, about rural Bolivia. The results show that coverage has …

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Estimating the Opportunity Cost of Lithium Extraction in the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

Aguilar-Fernandez, Rodrigo - 2009

is the key factor. The Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia holds the largest source of lithium in the world; however, its …

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POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF NATIONALIZATION OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY IN LATIN AMERICA

Cabezas, Brian F. - 2007

past few years, Venezuela and Bolivia have announced plans to renationalizetheir oil and natural gas industry.The first … focusing specifically on four countries – Bolivia,Venezuela, Mexico and Nigeria. There are various components influencing the …

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Accounting for variations in trade union effectiveness : state labor relations in East Central Europe

Avdagic, Sabina - 2003

This paper offers an explanation for variations in the effectiveness of trade unions to obtain legislative and policy concessions in peak-level tripartite negotiations in post-communist East Central Europe. I examine the usefulness of some standard interpretations for such variations, namely...

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Models of Unionized Oligopolies

Göddeke, Anna Katharina - 2008

Die Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit dem Zusammenspiel von Arbeits- und Produktmärkten auf denen Marktmacht besteht. Sie setzt sich aus einem Literaturüberblick über das Themengebiet der Unionized Oligopolies und drei Modellen zusammen. Diese befassen sich mit dem Einfluss von...

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Trade unions and the informal economy in Zambia: Building strength or loosing ground?

Heidenreich, Georg; Heidenreich, Georg - 2007

The increasing casualisation of labour forces trade unions globally to deal with a growing number of unprotected and unrepresented workers in what is dubbed by the unions, even if critically, as the informal economy. This paper assesses the impact and further potential of a direct and indirect...

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Korean expansion and decline from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century: a view suggested by Adam Smith

Ho, Jun Seong; Lewis, James B.; Han-Rog, Kang - 2008

The first price runs for Korean rice help us develop a Smithian physiocratic model to explain the low, stable prices of the eighteenth century and the rising, volatile prices of the nineteenth. Ownership rights provided incentives, and productivity after 1600 exceeded subsistence to achieve...

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Industry and trade policy: A case study of stagnation in Nigeria

Agard, Beverlye C.; Agard, Beverlye C. - 1990

The adoption of import oriented policies introduced distortions into the economy which caused Nigeria to ignore resource-based industry in agriculture, petroleum and metal production. The resulted in the transfer of technology into industries with a continual reliance on imported inputs. This...

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The Financial and Labor Impact of Cybernation on the American Republic Insurance Company

Kramer, Edward Charles - 1974

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Oil baron of the Southwest: Edward L. Doheny and the development of the petroleum industry in California and Mexico

Ansell, Martin R. - 1998

Acknowledgments -- Introduction. p.1 -- 1. Early years in the West. p.7 -- 2. Oil and railroads in Southern California, 1892-1902. p.23 -- 3. The birth of the Mexican oil industry, 1900-1910. p.52 -- 4. Return to California, 1908-1912. p.87 -- 5. Creating an international oil company, 1912-1915....

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