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Tale of two Koreas
Ratten, Vanessa; Waechter, Estelle - 2007
The economic performances of North and South Korea over the past decade have differed significantly. This is largely due to the government policies of the two countries, which affect business in conflicting ways. Despite the differences in economic growth, there are a number of similarities...
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World Biofuels Study
Alfstad,T. - 2009
This report forms part of a project entitled 'World Biofuels Study'. The objective is to study world biofuel markets and to examine the possible contribution that biofuel imports could make to help meet the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435827
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Prosperity Game: Advanced Manufacturing Day, May 17, 1994
Berman, M. - 2009
Prosperity Games are an outgrowth and adaptation of move/countermove and seminar War Games. Prosperity Games are simulations that explore complex issues in a variety of areas including economics, politics, sociology, environment, education and research. These issues can be examined from a...
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The Flat Tax: An Examination of the Baltic States
Greenberg, Deena - 2009
The idea of a flat tax, a tax levied at a single rate, has become an increasingly discussed and implemented fiscal strategy across Europe and the rest of the world. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania adopted flat tax systems in 1994 and 1995, making them the first modern countries to adopt flat...
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The Boycott Model of Foreign Product Purchase: An Empirical test in China
Smith, Malcolm; Li, Qianpin - 2010
The primary purpose of this paper is to investigate and ascertain the effects of integrative motivation on the willingness to participate in boycott activities. This paper uses a mail survey to examine the relationships among six constructs in a boycotting issue context, in order to explore...
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Capital, conditionality, and free markets: The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the effects of the neoliberal transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean
Carbacho-Burgos, Andres - 2000
This dissertation examines the effects of neoliberal economic policies in Latin America in 25 years (the 1970-1995 period), focusing especially on macroeconomic stabilization under IMF support and on IMF and World Bank structural adjustment lending, where the debate centers on the effect of...
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The Gift that Keeps Giving: FDI Inflows in China
Chang, Joseph - 2011
This paper investigates the primacy of foreign direct investment inflows in liberalizing China’s economy and whether the long-term gains from economic openness will justify its inefficient energy uses and growing regional income disparities. By examining the history of FDI inflows in China, it...
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'Region Indischer Ozean' : Illusion oder Realität?
Lehr, Peter - 2003
stellte: "Asia-Pacific: what sort of region in what sort of world?" Buzan stellt als Kriterien für das Vorhandensein einer … of the Indian Ocean is a history of perennial regional conflicts - in the Persian Gulf, in South Asia (the Indo …-Pakistani wars), in Southeast Asia (e. g., the so-called Konfrontasi between Indonesia on the one side and Malaysia and Singapore on …
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Financial development and economic growth in corporatist and liberal market economies
Graff, M - 2003
The paper addresses the significance of financial development as a possible determinant of economic growth. Economists and policymakers in transition economies and emerging markets are certainly aware of the key role that, in a market economy, the financial system is supposed to play in the...
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