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Prioritization of sustainability indicators for promoting the circular economy: The case of developing countries

Ngan, Sue Lin; How, Bing Shen; Teng, Sin Yong; … - 2019

The concept of the circular economy has gained well-recognition across the world for the past decades. With the heightening risk of the impact of climate change, resource scarcity to meet the increasing world population, the need to transition to a more sustainable development model is urgent....

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Integration, decoupling and the global financial crisis: A global perspective

Miankhel, Adil Khan; Kalirajan, Kaliappa; Thangavelu, … - 2010

The recent global recession requires policy makers to identify the relative importance of shock transmission mechanisms in each region and devise counter policy measures against future idiosyncratic shocks. In the last decade, world dynamics have changed considerably due to increased openness...

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Determinants and Sustainability of External Debt: A Panel Data Analysis for Selected Islamic Countries

Waheed, Abdul; Abbas, Shujaat - 2021

This study analyses the determinants and sustainability of external debt of selected Islamic countries. The study uses panel data of ten oil & gas exporting countries and nine oil & gas importing countries from 2004 to 2016. For oil & gas exporting Islamic countries, economic growth, central...

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Japanese Manufacturers in Australia: Analysing Their Quality Evaluation and Employee Participation

Bayari, Celal - 2010

The characteristics of Japanese transnational automotive and electronic manufacturers in their overseas operations form a major topic of analysis. This paper discusses the data from Japanese electronics and automotive (auto and auto parts) manufacturers that were subjects of the author’s...

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General Purpose Technologies and their Implications for International Trade

Petsas, Iordanis - 2009

GPT by a particular industry generates an increase in the productivity of manufacturing workers at Home. By assumption …

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Market Concentration and the Productivity Slowdown

Olmstead-Rumsey, Jane - 2019

Since around 2000, U.S. aggregate productivity growth has slowed and product market (sales) concentration has risen. At … the same time, productivity differences among firms in the same sector appear to have risen dramatically. In this paper I … for rising concentration, slower productivity growth, and wider technology differences among firms is that the incidence …

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Economic Operation of Self-Sustained Microgrid Optimal Operation by Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Decomposition

Mahdavi, Sadegh; Bayat, Alireza; Khazaei, Ehsan; … - 2019

This paper focuses on the optimal operation of the islanded microgrid. A novel heuristic method known as the Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Decomposition is presented to search for the optimal solution with a fast response. The efficiency of the method is tested on the IEEE 33...

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Market Concentration and the Productivity Slowdown

Olmstead-Rumsey, Jane - 2019

Since around 2000, U.S. aggregate productivity growth has slowed and product market (sales) concentration has risen. At … the same time, productivity differences among firms in the same sector appear to have risen dramatically. Sector …-level data shows correlations between rising productivity gaps, concentration, and slowing productivity growth. I propose a rich …

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The Causal Factors Driving the Rise in U.S. Health-services Prices

Feldman, Maria; Pretnar, Nick - 2023

We explore several possible avenues which have driven the rise in aggregate U.S. health-services prices since the mid-twentieth century. Our multi-sector general equilibrium model is structural change meets health macro, featuring endogenous population aging, market concentration in the health...

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Rising R&D Intensity and Economic Growth

Pollak, Andreas - 2009

Over the past decades, private R&D spending in the US and other developed countries has been growing faster than GDP. At the same time, the growth rates of per capita and aggregate output have been rather stable, possibly declining slightly. This paper proposes a growth model that can account...

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