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National competitiveness, dynamics of adjustment, and long term economic growth: conceptual, empirical, and policy issues

Howes, Candace; Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

ABSTRACT Although the concept of national competitiveness is widely used by policy makers at both the national and international levels, it has been the object of trenchant criticism in a series of influential contributions by Professor Krugman. He regards it as a meaningless concept and in the...

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The stock market, the market for corporate control and the theory of the firm: legal and economic perspectives and implications for public policy

Deakin, Simon; Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Abstract It is argued here that – contrary to current conventional wisdom – an active market for corporate control is not an essential ingredient of either company law reform or financial and economic development. The absence of such a market in coordinated market systems during their modern...

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How did East Asia grow so fast? Slow progress towards an analytical consensus

Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994

Although in the post-World War II period as a whole, developing countries have made substantial economic and industrial progress, during the last decade or so, many of them, particularly in Latin America and Africa, have been in an acute economic crisis . As a consequence, these countries have...

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Foreign direct investment, development and the new global economic order. A policy brief for the South

Singh, Ajit; Zammit, Josephine Ann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997

Preface Over the last decade and a half the global economic order has been undergoing major changes. While this may be thought to reflect the results of a multilateral and participatory process involving debate and negotiations, in reality it has been mostly driven by the economic interests of...

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Tiger, tiger, burning bright? industrial policy lessons from Ireland and East Asia for small African economies

Bailey, David; Lenihan, Helena; Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The African economies, particularly those in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) stand today at an important crossroads. During the 1980s, for the average African country, GDP per capita fell at a rate of 0.5 percent per annum; in the 1990s it rose slightly at a rate of 0.3 percent per annum. However, in...

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How East Asia grew so fast? slow progress towards an analytical consensus

Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994

Abstract Although in the post-World War II period as a whole, developing countries have made substantial economic and industrial progress, during the last decade or so, many of them, particularly in Latin America and Africa, have been in an acute economic crisis. As a consequence, these...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111172

Global unemployment, Long-run economic growth and labour market rigidities: a commentary

Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

Abstract This short paper aims to contribute to the debate on the causes and remedies for high rates of unemployment and under-employment, which presently afflict large parts of both the North (industrial countries) and the South (developing countries).

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Growth: its sources and consequences

Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997

This chapter reviews economic growth, its causes and consequences in the Pacific-rim countries. The chapter is in three parts. The first part (Sections 2 - 8) is concerned with the question of fast economic growth in a group of East and South East Asian developing countries. It reviews the...

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Comparative advantage, industrial policy and the World Bank: back to first principles

Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

contributions on international trade and the world economy, relevant economic history, as well as Krugman’s comments on these issues …

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Financial Development, Environmental Quality, Trade and Economic Growth: What Causes What in MENA Countries

Omri, Anis; Daly, Saida; Rault, Christophe; Chaibi, Anissa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper examines the relationship between financial development, CO2 emissions, trade and economic growth using … is evidence of bidirectional causality between CO2 emissions and economic growth. Economic growth and trade openness are … interrelated i.e. bidirectional causality. Feedback hypothesis is validated between trade openness and financial development …

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