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Study on quality of public finances in support of growth in the mediterranean partner countries of the EU
De Wulf, Luc; Coutinho, Leonor; Sassanpour, Cyrus; … - 2010
Until the early 1990s, the discussions on fiscal policy primarily centered on the functions of economic stabilization, income redistribution and resource allocation. Long-term growth was not usually viewed as an end itself, and fiscal policy was often not sufficiently tailored to the different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326589
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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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Science-policy communication for improved water resources management: Contributions of the Nostrum-DSS project
Depietri, Yaella; Giupponi, Carlo - 2008
The Nostrum-DSS EU funded Co-ordination Action (CA) aims at contributing to the achievement of improved governance and planning in the field of sustainable water management within the Mediterranean Basin by establishing a network between the science, policy, and civil society spheres and through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270933
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Demographic divide and labor migration in the Euro-Mediterranean region
Tosun, Mehmet S. - 2011
This paper provides a demographic outlook of the Euro-Mediterranean region and then shows the economic and fiscal consequences of such demographic differences within a two-region model with international labor mobility. International labor mobility is also examined through an externalities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282460
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Merenkulun toimintaedellytykset, kilpailukyky ja julkisen talouden sopeuttamistoimet: Taustaselvitys valtiovarainministeriölle
Hernesniemi, Hannu - 2012
-nationality crews grows at current rates, this would lower shipping subsidies - in 2015 the savings would amount to over 10 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326862
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Clausewitz on Auctions
Häfner, Samuel - 2012
A multi-stage model on the course of war is presented: Individual battles are modeled as private value all-pay auctions … with asymmetric combatants of two opposing teams. These auctions are placed within a multi-stage framework with a tug-of-war … models of militarized conflicts, yields new theoretical justification for existing empirical findings with respect to war, and …
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Self-enforcing Norms and the Efficient Non-cooperative Organization of Clans
Konrad, Kai A.; Leininger, Wolfgang - 2007
We study how norms can solve distributional conflict inside a clan and the efficient coordination of collective action in a conflict with an external enemy.We characterize a fully non-cooperative equilibrium in a finite game in which a self-enforcing norm coordinates the members on efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264689
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Does conflict disrupt growth? Evidence of the relationship between political instability and national economic performance
Polachek, Solomon W.; Sevastianova, Daria - 2010
variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do … different types of conflict affect country growth rates? It finds that wars slow the economy. Estimates indicate that civil war …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269690
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Violent conflict and inequality
Bircan, Cagatay; Brück, Tilman; Vothknecht, Marc - 2010
focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes … in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269837
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Identifying conflict and violence in micro-level surveys
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - 2010
The overall goal of the report is to increase the capacity of researchers and policy makers to identify comparatively, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an extensive overview of existing practices and datasets used...
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