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The SMEs Performance by the New Technologies Application: The Case of Olive-Oil in Puglia

Annunziata, de Felice; Isabella, Martucci - 2009

Since the facility for exchanging information and sharing knowledge increases both the competitiveness of companies and … worker productivity, the opportunities that information and communication technology (ICT) offers for small and medium … selected those in the olive-oil sector, to measure the use of ICT and, in particularly, the development of E-commerce. The aim …

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Evidence and Policy Lessons on the Links between Disaster Risk and Poverty in Latin America

Lopez-Calva, Luis Felipe; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo - 2009

Extreme climate-related events have a direct impact on the welfare of households. The frequency and magnitude of those shocks appear to be closely linked to increasing vulnerability of households and communities in developing countries. Yet, the link between natural disasters and living...

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Propuestas para mejorar el Federalismo Fiscal en Argentina: Un nuevo esquema para la distribución del Impuesto a las Ganancias

Bertello, Nicolas; Uña, Gerardo - 2009

To promote and contribute to the discussion of fiscal federalism in Argentina, this paper presents a proposal to amend the distribution of the revenue from the Income Tax between the Nation and the provinces. The proposal is based on the need to help reinvigorate the discussion on the...

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Elected Oligarchy and Economic Underdevelopment: The Case of Guyana

Khemraj, Tarron; Hinova, Diana - 2011

This study proposes the idea that Guyana’s present government can be categorized as an elected oligarchy. It highlights the existence of several binding constraints (or structural bottlenecks) and demonstrates how these constraints are exacerbated by the elected oligarchy to impair the...

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Can Lipset’s theory travel through time and space? the destination Nicaragua, 1972-1998. A time series test of the social requisites of democracy.

Michalak, Katja - 2011

The epigraph is emblematic of an orthodox theoretical view that ‘only in a wealthy society could a situation exist in which the mass of the population could intelligently participate in politics’ and that this relationship is universal and applicable cross time and space. Comparing ancient...

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Beta, Sigma and Distributional Convergence in Human Development? Evidence from the Metropolitan Regions of Bolivia

Mendez-Guerra, Carlos - 2018

clusters is a salient feature of inequality reduction. Furthermore, in the long-run, convergence appears to be characterized by …

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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: What Drives Human-Made Light?

Dickinson, Jeffrey - 2020

This paper expands on our understanding of the lights-income relationship by linking the newest generation of nighttime satellite images derived from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometry Suite, VIIRS, to nationwide, panel data on population and income from 2012-2018 for both Brazil and the...

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Structural change and sectoral interconnectedness in two resource-abundant economies

Khemraj, Tarron; Pasha, Sukrishnalall - 2023

A historical overview of structural change is presented to motivate the calculation of sectoral factor productivities for Guyana and Suriname using a structural VAR and a novel resource-dominant identification strategy. The paper finds that the extractive sector lowers manufacturing output in...

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Bi-communalism and the economic origins of democracy: a case study

Khemraj, Tarron - 2013

The paper shows how democratic elections in a bi-communal society with entrenched ethnic voting results in an elected oligarchy in which elites of one ethnic group control the allocation of scarce economic resources. Using a simple strategic game, the paper shows that the control of resources...

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The Brazilian Economy in 20th Century

Antunes, Davi - 2005

In this brief text, we will try to discuss the problems of the Brazilian Economy and how these problems are affected by the globalization.

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