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Implications of Inertia for Assessing Drug Control Policy: Why Upstream Interventions May Not Receive Due Credit
Caulkins, Jonathan P. - 2007
Background: There is ongoing interest in assessing the effectiveness of various drug control strategies, including policy intended to reduce initiation and prevalence. Compartmental models of trajectories of drug use have been developed that demonstrate that drug “systems” display...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441060
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Implications of Inertia for Assessing Drug Control Policy: Why Upstream Interventions May Not Receive Due Credit
Caulkins, Jonathan - 2007
Background: There is ongoing interest in assessing the effectiveness of various drug control strategies, including policy intended to reduce initiation and prevalence. Compartmental models of trajectories of drug use have been developed that demonstrate that drug “systems” display...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441090
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Tuberculosis transmission patterns in a high-incidence area: A spatial analysis
Munch Z.; Van Lill S.W.P.; Booysen C.N.; Zietsman H.L.; … - 2003
SETTING: In the Cape Town suburbs of Ravensmead and Uitsig, tuberculosis has reached epidemic levels, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442250
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The Impact of Foreign Investments on the Achievement of Economic Growth
Maitah, M.; Salim, N. - 2010
This article deals with the analysis of the positive side of the foreign direct investments in the World´s economy. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443658
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The consequences of China's WTO accession on its neighbors
McKibbin, Warwick J; Woo, Wing Thye - 2003
competition increase as a result of China's recent accession to the World Trade Organization? Will Indonesia, Malaysia, the … final index for growth competitiveness computed by the World Economic Forum for 59 countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451727
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"International Production and the Periphery of the European Union"
Pournarakis, Mike. - 1999
The dramatic rise in international production in recent years stands out as the most decisive factor in the globalization of economic activity. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been growing very rapidly in the recent past while international trade ceased being the principle mechanism linking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463694
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“Advanced Welfare States in the International Economy: Vulnerabilities and Options”
Scharpf, Fritz W. - 1999
postwar decades. After the rampant protectionism following the Great Depression, and after the complete breakdown of world … markets in World War II, the restoration of international competition in the markets for industrial goods was a slow process … that had been associated with unfettered international capitalism before World War One and, again, in the inter-war period. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463696
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Global Euro: Testing Times for Transatlantic Ties? EUMA Papers, Vol. 4 No. 9, April 2007
Campanella, Miriam L. - 2007
conflicts and promotes coordination. As the US-EU economy makes up 60 per cent of the world GDP, policymakers on the two sides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463705
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"The myth of Bretton Woods"
Andrews, David M. - 2003
[This paper is] a discussion of the transformation of the international monetary system in the period immediately following the adoption of the Bretton Woods agreements. The Bretton Woods architects intended to fashion an international monetary order that would provide maximum autonomy for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463720
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"Werner Report, EMS and EMU: Problems and Prospects of European Monetary Cooperation"
Kaelberer, Matthias. - 1993
This paper seeks to explain the variance between success and failure of attempts to achieve monetary cooperation and integration in Western Europe. In its first two sections the paper develops six assumptions about international monetary behavior of states and the conditions for monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463727