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Small states in a global economy: The role of institutions in managing vulnerability and opportunity in small developing countries
Bräutigam, Deborah; Woolcock, Michael - 2001
Small states have always been more vulnerable in the global economy. This is so because trade comprises a larger proportion of their economic activity, and because they lack the power to set the terms or make any of the rules that govern globalization. Studies of small states tend to focus on...
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Kulturelle Prägungen wirtschaftlicher Institutionen und wirtschaftspolitischer Reformen
Eger, Thomas (contributor) - 2002
Die unterschiedlichen Transformationserfolge in den mittel- und osteuropäischen Ländern sowie in der Volksrepublik China, aber auch die längerfristigen wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungsprobleme in den meisten schwarzafrikanischen und islamischen Ländern lassen sich nur unvollkommen erklären,...
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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2013
We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile....
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Darwinian paradigm, cultural evolution and human purposes: On F.A. Hayek's evolutionary view of the market
Vanberg, Viktor J. - 2011
The claim that the Darwinian paradigm of blind-variation-and-selective-retention can be generalized from the biological to the socio-cultural realm has often been questioned because of the critical role played by human purposeful design in the process of cultural evolution. In light of the issue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286738
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The Knowledge-Capital Model and Small Countries
Kristjánsdóttir, Helga - 2005
In this paper, Knowledge-Capital model estimates for a small country are compared to estimates obtained for larger economies. The model is based on unique panel data on foreign direct investment in Iceland. Estimates obtained for the Knowledge-Capital model differ considerable from what has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320926
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Reforming Trade Policy in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands
Anderson, Kym; Bosworth, Michael - 2009
key Pacific island economies and indentifies the reasons for their relatively poor performance. It then looks at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902300
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Effect of pecuniary costs and time costs on choice of healthcare providers among caregivers of febrile children in rural Papua New Guinea
Tsukahara, Takahiro; Sugahara, Takuma; Ogura, Seiritsu; … - In: Health Economics Review 9 (2019) 33, pp. 1-14
Background: User fees, transportation costs, and time costs impair access to healthcare by rural communities in low and middle income countries. However, effects of time costs on demand for healthcare are less understood than effects of user fees for health providers. In addition, prospective...
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The China alternative: Changing regional order in the Pacific Islands
Smith, Graeme (contributor);  … - 2021
allies and the island countries themselves. Other chapters examine key dimensions of China's Pacific engagement, including … the ability of island leaders to maintain their agency in the changing regional order, as well as other issues of …
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Country Risk Ratings of Small Island Tourism Economies
Shareef, Riaz - 2004
Island Tourism Economies analysed in this paper vary profoundly in their size, land area, and location. Moreover, they have … growth. Such sovereign island economies differ in the extent to which they are home to a multitude of ethnic diversity … peripheral. In spite of the vast diversity as well as similarities, researchers are fascinated by the world of small island …
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Economic and environmental sustainability: A dynamic approach in insular systems
Cavallaro, Fausto; Ciraolo, Luigi - 2002
enable their full exploitation. However, island systems have low stability, as they are highly sensitive to exogenous stress … phenomena affecting the island of Salina (Aeolian islands-Messina) offering elements for the assessment of future local …
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