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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353250
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The political economy of water and sanitation in developing countries : cross-country evidence and a case study on Colombia
Krause, Matthias - 2007
Advances in human development are closely linked to increasing access to water and sanitation services in developing countries. The present study investigates the role of governance for mastering this challenge. The motivation for choosing this subject is the insight that the focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468517
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Four Essays on University Economics
Hein, Miriam - 2008
This dissertation is a collection of four research papers written during my doctoral studies at the University of Konstanz between October 2004 and November 2008. These papers are empirical studies dealing with different aspects in the field of university economics. The focus of the first two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471716
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Rural-to-Urban Migration in Developing Countries : The Applicability of the Harris Todaro Model with a Special Focus on the Chinese Economy
Bahns, Karin Margarethe - 2005
städtischen informellen Sektor und die Aspekte derAgglomeration behandeln. Die Folgerungen aus der Theorie werdensodann mit den … urbaninformal sector and agglomeration economics. The theory is thencompared with the evidence from developing economies. It will … toChina. Finally, policy implications are covered. Despite of someof the shortcomings of the theory, it can be concluded that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471828
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Konsequenzen des TRIPS-Übereinkommens für die Arzneimittelversorgung von Entwicklungsländern
Oppermann, Julia - 2008
Mit der Gründung der WTO am 1.1.1995 trat das TRIPS-Übereinkommen in Kraft. Es verpflichtet alle WTO Mitglieder zur Umsetzung von Rechten zum Schutze des geistigen Eigentums, welche dem Niveau industrialisierter Staaten nahezu entsprechen. Die Stärkung internationaler Immaterialgüterrechte...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475357
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Bewertung konsumorientierter Steuerreformen in Entwicklungsländern : eine numerische Allgemeine Gleichgewichtsanalyse für Thailand
Niyomthai, Pilanya - 2004
In der Steuerreformdiskussion sind sich Ökonomen durchaus über die theoretischen Vorzüge der konsomorientierten Besteuerung gegenüber dem Konzept der Einkommensbesteuerung einig. Aus der qualitativen Analyse in der vorliegenden Arbeit stellen sich die zwischen 1994-2000 in Kroatien...
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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 importance of this research is derived from the significant role that can be played by foreign investments in industrialized and developing countries. Some countries are still...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443658
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Resource Abundance, Poverty and Development
Bulte, Erwin H.; Damania, Richard; Deacon, Robert T. - 2004
The negative correlation between resource endowments and GDP growth remains one of the most robust findings in the empirical growth literature, and has been coined the “resource curse hypothesis”. The policy consequences of this result are potentially far reaching. If natural resources are an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443945
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444171