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This is a review article by Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards of Angus Maddison's path-breaking new book, The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective. The article summarizes Maddison's key findings in a number of areas, with particular emphasis on his estimates of...
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This article investigates the impact that the appreciation and the stability of the real exchange rate in China between … 1993 and 2001 have exerted on productivity growth. We give theoretical arguments explaining the impact of the real exchange … rate on productivity via its effects either on efficiency growth or on technical progress. Then for the twenty-nine Chinese …
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This article investigates the impact that the real exchange rate appreciation in China has exerted on productivity … and on technical progress. DEA Malmquist indices of productivity growth and of its two components are calculated for … partially to give a lesser negative effect on productivity growth. …
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This article investigates the impact that the appreciation and the stability of the real exchange rate in China between … 1993 and 2001 have exerted on productivity growth. We give theoretical arguments explaining the impact of the real exchange … rate on productivity via its effects either on efficiency growth or on technical progress. Then for the twenty-nine Chinese …
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There is an important debate going on in South Africa on whether to apply safeguard trade barriers to protect textiles … policy objective. Much of the current discourse on textiles protection focuses on static effects of protection. The aim of … this paper is to take this discussion a step further by introducing the effect of textiles protection on poverty and its …
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Malgré le nombre relativement important d'études sur les impacts des subventions sur le prix mondial du coton, il n’existe pas de consensus concernant la quantification de ces effets. L'objectif de cet article est, par le biais de la méta-analyse, d'expliquer la source de...
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This paper discusses the possible significance of the recent Empagran decision of the US Supreme court for the extraterritorial enforcement of competition law. In this decision the US Supreme rejected the claim of foreign plaintiff suing in the US another foreign firm which had participated in...
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This essay aims to analyze the economic and social role of foreign (forestieri) merchants and artisans in Venice between the low middle age and the early modern time. In search of new perspectives of work, many strangers, also of different religions, came in Venice, where they organize...
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The aim of this paper is to show the strategies of the Venetian Patricians (and those from the Mainland) face to the risk. The diversifications of investments (in all the economic sectors, as agriculture, manufacture, trade, public and private finance) and the flexibility in the domestic and...
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