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Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - The MIT Press
Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world … is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order--two hundred years in the making--was already characterized by a … economic historian Jeffrey G. Williamson traces the great divergence between the third world and the West to this nexus of …
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Local response to globalization : MESTA region, Bulgaria
Ruszczyk, Hanna; Schubert, Ingrid; Stoyanovska, Antonina - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2001
the changes caused by globalization while maintaining local employment and stimulating job growth. Describes locally based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967258
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Unraveling the Shift to the Entrepreneurial Economy
Audretsch, D.B.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
, ranging from the demise of the communist system, increased globalization, new competition for multinational firms and higher …
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Unraveling the Shift to the Entrepreneurial Economy
Audretsch, D.B.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
, ranging from the demise of the communist system, increased globalization, new competition for multinational firms and higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257351
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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...
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Healthy Trade: The Relationship Between Open Trade and Health
Stevens, Philip; Urbach, Jasson; Wills, Gabrielle - In: Foreign Trade Review 48 (2013) 1, pp. 125-135
views are also widely promulgated by international policymaking organizations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO …
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Gender and globalization : a macroeconomic perspective
Cagatay, Nilüfer; Ertürk, Korkuk - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2004
policies that underpin globalization processes. Explores economic policy proposals and initiatives which aim to promote gender … equity in the context of the world economy. …
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Economic structure, trade and regions
Helmsing, Helmsing, A.H.J. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1984
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The international diffusion of new technologies: a multi-technology analysis of latecomer advantage and global economic integration
Perkins, Richard; Neumayer, Eric - EconWPA - 2004
The diffusion of modern, efficient technology has far-reaching consequences for the geography of economic activity, inequality and environmental quality. This article examines two popular yet highly controversial claims about the conditions most favorable to the rapid spread of new technology....
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Economic structure, trade and regions
HELMSING, A.H.J. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1984
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005442182