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Ausländische Direktinvestitionen als Wachstumsmotor? - Eine Empirische Analyse am Beispiel Lateinamerikas
Hinrichs, Cord - 2005
kausale Beziehung zwischen ausländischen Direktinvestitionen (DI) und Wirtschaftswachstum in 6 lateinamerikanischen Ländern … aufgeworfen, wie die Interaktion zwischen DI und inländischem Wirtschaftswachstum zu sehen ist. Auch wenn in der theoretischen als … auch empirischen Literatur signifikante Belege für eine Verbindung zwischen DI und Wirtschaftswachstum zu finden sind, so …
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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
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Ciencia Política en América Latina
Nohlen, Dieter - 2006
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The Informal Sector and Economic Development in Latin America: A Brief Study of the Chilean Model
Ono, Hiroshi (contributor) - 2009
A major hindrance to the achievement of steady economic growth is widespread informal employment, also known as the informal sector. The informal sector is a complex phenomenon which is pervasive in developing regions of the world such as sub-Saharan Africa, south Asia, and Latin America. It was...
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Growth and Human Development: Comparative Latin American Experience
Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances - 2001
This paper seeks to examine the interdependence between economic growth (EG) and human development (HD). It is concerned with changes in per capita income and its two-way relationship with the basic societal objective of human development. Regressions across various Latin American countries are...
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Outward-Orientation and Development: Are Revisionists Right?
Srinivasan, T.N.; Bhagwati, Jagdish - 1999
The costs of import substitution (IS) as a strategy for industrialization, which was deemed synonymous with economic development by many development economists of the fifties and sixties, were shown to be substantial in the influential and nuanced studies of the seventies and eighties under the...
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Crescimento dos vales do Tietê e Paraná: um enfoque de estoques de capitais
Bernardes, Elaine Mendonca; Peres, Fernando Curi; … - 2007
The study aimed at identifying factors limiting the Tietê and Paraná valleys economic growth. Specifically, it analyzed the importance of the capital stocks for economic growth of these and the other counties in São Paulo State. Nine factors were generated by Principal Components Method to...
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What drives fiscal decentralisation? Further assessing the role of income
Bodman, Philip; Hodge, Andrew - 2010
This paper investigates the determinants of fiscal decentralisation, focusing in particular on the impact of the level of income on the level of fiscal decentralisation. Various measures of fiscal decentralisation, several of them novel in this context, are employed in a cross-country...
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The Road to Development is Paved With Good Institutions: The Political and Economic Implications of Financial Markets
Brown, Chelsea Denise - 2008
This research seeks to identify the factors that account for the variation in development levels across nations by focusing on the institutional components of development, especially the effects of financial market development on economic and political development. I argue that financial market...
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Defining and Measuring Entrepreneuship for Regional Research: A New Approach
Low, Sarah A. - 2009
In this dissertation, I develop a definition and regional measure of entrepreneurship that will aid entrepreneurship research and economic development policy. My new indicators represent an improvement over current measures of entrepreneurship. The chief contribution of these new indicators is...
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