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Fiscal federalism and decentralization in Mongolia
Lkhagvadorj, Ariunaa - 2010
series of arguments that decentralization of governments enhances growth by improving allocation efficiency. However, the … there might be a threshold level of economic development below which decentralization is not effective. Developing and … transition countries have developed a variety of forms of fiscal decentralization as a possible strategy to achieve effective and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449003
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Fiscal federalism and decentralization in Mongolia
Lkhagvadorj, Ariunaa - 2009
series of arguments that decentralization of governments enhances growth by improving allocation efficiency. However, the … there might be a threshold level of economic development below which decentralization is not effective. Developing and … transition countries have developed a variety of forms of fiscal decentralization as a possible strategy to achieve effective and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449072
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Zur Stabilisierung fragmentierter Staaten : Dezentralisierung, Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und das Gespenst des Separatismus
Ehrke, J?rgen - 2011
?rderung wirtschaftlichen Wachstums auch das Instrument der Dezentralisierung, das oft als Mittel zur ?Beruhigung? separatistischer Bestrebungen …-enhancing policies, but also on the instrument of decentralization, which is often presented as a tool suited to appease separatist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483678
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Wirkung föderaler Strukturen in der staatlichen Innovationsförderung ; Effects of federal structures on public innovation support
Becker, Lasse - 2015
Staatliche Innovationsförderung erklärt Firmen, besonders kleinere Unternehmen, die Hindernissen zur Innovationstätigkeitgegenüberstehen, zu unterstützen. Frühere Studien haben gezeigt, dass staatliche Programme diese Ziele nicht erreichen. Aber in der Vergangenheit wurde hierbei selten...
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Projected refined product balances in key Latin American countries: A preliminary examination
2009
Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436759
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Regional Trade Agreements: Effects of the Andean and Mercosur Packs on the Venezuelan Soybean Trade and U.S. Exports
Reeder, John; Torene, Jillian A.; Jabara, Cathy L.; … - 2005
Since the mid-1990s, the two regional trade agreements in South America, the southern Mercosur Pact (among Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay), and the northern Andean Pact (among Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru) noticeably affected certain trade patterns between the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446838
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Rebalancing Oil Contracts in Venezuela
Cárdenas García, Julián - 2011
During the last decade, the Venezuelan government has pursued a reform of the legal regime of hydrocarbons tailored to its interests as an oil producing country. However, the ongoing consequences of the global economic recession which negatively impacted the Venezuelan economy, call into...
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Econometric Modeling: The Venezuelan Economy
Muller, Maria Graciela Gonzalez - 2000
Econometric Modeling has a wide range if applications, including economy-wide representations. This study takes on the task of finding a suitable structure to model the Venezuelan economy. It is revealed that econometric structural and computable general equilibrium models are inapplicable,...
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POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF NATIONALIZATION OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY IN LATIN AMERICA
Cabezas, Brian F. - 2007
Nationalization is a particular type of organizational structure where the state or nation controlsthe industry as opposed to private companies or multinational organizations. If one imagines acontinuum of organizational structure, nationalization and privatization would be at oppositeends....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475604
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Under What Conditions are Decentralized Solutions to Collective Action Problems Likely?
Maier-Rigaud, Frank - 2000
"The paper outlines conditions under which decentralized approaches are likely to succeed in solving collective action problems. Criteria that render successful decentralized collective action more likely have mainly been developed in the Common Pool Resource (CPR) and International Relations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468423