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Agricultural Productivity Growth in the European Union and Transition Countries
Lissitsa, Alexej; Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat - 2006
Economic reform in the Central and Eastern European countries in the 1980s helped transform the structure and volume of agricultural production, consumption and trade, and resulted in significant agricultural productivity improvements. However, there are large differences among the transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442539
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Investigating affordability problems of utility services – A theoretical study on the ratio measure
Gawel, Erik; Bretschneider, Wolfgang - 2010
Unlike in developing countries, there tends to be no problem of access to water, electricity, and heating for private households in transition countries. However, transition countries have a considerable amount of low-income households, and the problem of affordability of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442652
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Competitiveness in the Food Industry: a CGE Modelling Approach to assess Foreign Direct Investment in Transition Countries
Banse, Martin; Gay, Stephan Hubertus; McDonald, Scott; … - 2007
For transition countries, the food industry sector is a key industry in terms of output andemployment shares. As a competitive sector that receives substantial foreign directinvestments (FDI), it plays an important role as an element in the process of integration in theEuropean and world market....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445075
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A Methodology for Assessing National Sustainable Development Strategies
Cherp, Aleg; George, Clive; Kirkpatrick, Colin - 2004
At the Rio Earth Summit of 1992, governments undertook to develop and adopt national sustainable development strategies as a key component of implementing the goals of Agenda 21. Only partial progress was reported at the 2002 World Summit in Johannesburg, with uncertainty as to the effectiveness...
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Autonomy and Performance of Foreign Subsidiaries in five Transition Countries
Varblane, Urmas; Männik, Katrin; Hannula, Helena - 2005
The paper analyses the link between the autonomy according to business function and the performance of foreign subsidiaries in Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Estonia. The novelty of the paper is in the deeper investigation of the multidimensionality of autonomy. Using the method of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477501
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Capital flows to Latin American countries: effects of foreign direct investment and remittances on growth and development
Jansen, Dennis W. (contributor) - 2007
ondevelopment efforts. The resurgence of foreign direct investment (FDI) and theincreasing significance of remittances, both as …, with female employment rate getting the largest impact – relative to males.Remittances are another capital flow that plays … adequately to standard shocks, a remittances shock is introduced to examinethe dynamic response of the representative economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465200
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Essays on Migration and Agricultural Development
Gonzalez Velosa, Carolina - 2011
economies and development economists having dissenting views about the impact of emigration and remittances on source countries …-coping mechanisms since remittances may play an insurance role. I provide evidence that remittances have transformed farming practices … labor shortages, remittances can be a source of insurance and investment finance that fosters agricultural development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450914
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Brain drain, remittances, and fertility
Marchiori, Luca; Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - 2008
This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an …
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REMITTANCES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN TURKEY
KARAMELIKLI, Huseyin; BAYAR, Yilmaz - 2015
Savings are one of the important determinants beyond the theories of economic growth. Therefore remittances and foreign … between economic growth, remittances, foreign direct investment inflows and gross domestic savings in Turkey during the period … 1974-2013 by using Autoregressive Distributed Lag approach. We found that remittances, foreign direct investment and gross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316211