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The Impact of Kinship on the Economic Dynamics of Transnational Networks: reflections on some South Asian developments
Ballard, Roger - 2001
Prepared for a Conference on Transnational Networks in Princeton in 2001, this paper explored the comparative dynamics of the trans-local networks which South Asian migrants from Mirpur (Pakistan), Jullundur (India) and Sylhet (Bangladesh) have constructed around themselves.
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The Boycott Model of Foreign Product Purchase: An Empirical test in China
Smith, Malcolm; Li, Qianpin - 2010
past conflicts (i.e. war, economic, political, etc.) between Japan and China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009440812
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Steuerbarkeit gesamtwirtschaftlicher Entwicklung aus systemtheoretischer Sicht - Nachhaltigkeit durch Innovationsf?rderung und die japanische Umwelt- und Wirtschaftspolitik
K?ster, Ilona - 2004
Die Dissertation versucht, durch eine Synthese aus Entwicklungs- und Systemtheorie in Kombination mit Umselt?konomie einen alternativen Ansatz f?r die Erkl?rung von wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung allgemein und den Aufstieg der japanischen Umweltindustrie im besonderen zu finden. Neben einem...
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Technische Humankapitalbildung in der Yokosuka-Schiffswerft zu Beginn der Industrialisierung Japans
Nishiyama, Takahiro - 2009
Durch den Kontakt mit holl?ndischen H?ndlern hatte Japan fr?hzeitig Zugang zu westlichem Wissen. In der Edo-Zeit (1603 … Wissens in Japan beitrugen und somit die Industrialisierung Japans in gro?em Ausma? unterst?tzten. Vor diesem Hintergrund …Through contact with Dutch traders, Japan had early access to western knowledge. In the Edo period (1603-1868), a total …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438702
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468741
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'Region Indischer Ozean' : Illusion oder Realität?
Lehr, Peter - 2003
to Europe, the USA and Japan). In the Atlantic and the Pacific, the proportion is exactly vice versa. Second, contrary to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476234