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Political Decentralisation and Local Economic Development: Findings on the pro-poor responsiveness in 5 Cambodian communes
Westphal, Nico - 2011
Decentralisation and local economic development (LED) are two major development strategies that both have an explicit or inexplicit focus on poverty reduction. Political decentralisation offers principally two channels that allow to better orient policies to the needs of the poor, either through...
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Information and communications technology in the middle east: Situation as of 2010 and prospective scenarios for 2030
Abbassi, Jawad - 2011
This study analyzes the progress in information and communication technologies (ICT) in eleven MED countries and how they compare to the rest of the world in terms of sector's sophistication and development. In recent years, most countries of this region opened up their markets for multiple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326596
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Constraints to Economic Development and Growth in the Middle East and North Africa
Brach, Juliane - 2008
Vergleicht man Geschwindigkeit und Umfang der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung der verschiedenen Weltregionen in den … diesem Aufsatz wird versucht, von den unterschiedlichen Hemmfaktoren wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung, die in der … Entwicklung am stärksten behindern oder möglicherweise stärker als andere. Dabei benutze ich modernste ökonometrische Verfahren …
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Is there fiscal space for financing an Arab development transformation?
Roy, Rathin; Abu-Ismail, Khalid; Almeida Ramos, Raquel - 2012
[Introduction] The fundamental development challenge in the Arab region is one of economic transformation or, more pertinent, a lack thereof. Heavy sectoral weights of extractive industries lead to dependence on global oil prices, even in oil-producing countries. The structure of production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293293
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ICT opportunities and challenges for development in the Arab World
Nour, Samia Satti O. M. - 2002
This paper examines the status of ICT in the Arab world and the potential opportunities and challenges that ICT is expected to create for development in the region. The analysis shows that, despite the recent growth in the demand for ICT, it has a very limited market in the Arab region, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279138
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Boom & Bust. Local strategy for big events. A community survival guide to turbulent times
Van Assche, Kristof; Deacon, Leith; Gruezmacher, Monica; … - 2017
Boom and Bust: Local strategy for big events is the result of a collective effort at the University of Alberta to better understand the dramatic ups and downs which too often characterize western Canadian communities. From the Canadian analysis stems this book, which can be helpful in any...
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Exploring the philosophical engagements for community economic development analytical framework for poverty alleviation in South African rural areas
Ndaguba, EA; Hanyane, Barry - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-17
This paper is the second paper in a series of papers on Community Economic Development Strategic Framework for Poverty Alleviation in Local Government with particular attention to the Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality (RMLM). The objective of this paper is twofold: (i) to examine the rationale...
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Services Trade and Policy
Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard - 2009
Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature...
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The Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis in Developed Countries and Emerging Market Economies: Different Outcomes Explained
García Solanes, José; Torrejón-Flores, Fernando - 2008
This paper studies the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis in two areas with strong differences in economic development, sixteen OECD countries and sixteen Latin American economies. Applying panel cointegration and bootstrapping techniques that solve for cross-sectional dependence problems in the data,...
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Währungspolitik im Dienste von Entwicklung: Immer noch ein Forschungsprogramm!
Sell, Friedrich L. - 2004
gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung vor dem Hintergrund des berühmten Trilemmas, das prinzipiell für jede Währungsordnung gelöst werden muss …
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