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WIPO's Development Agenda and the push for development-oriented capacitybuilding on intellectual property: How poor governance, weak management, and inconsistent demand hindered pr...

Deere Birkbeck, Carolyn - 2016

In 2004, developing countries and civil society groups called for a new Development Agenda at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). After three years of debate, they secured the adoption by WIPO Member States of the 2007 WIPO Development Agenda, comprising 45 recommendations for...

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Towards a macroprudential surveillance and remedial policy formulation system for monitoring financial crisis

Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2009

Several developing economies witnessed a large number of systemic financial and currency crises since the 1980s which resulted in severe economic, social, and political problems. The devastating impact of the 1982 and 1994-95 Mexican crises, the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, the 1998 Russian...

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Liberté toujours? Gerechtigkeit und Gemeinschaft in neoliberalen Arbeitsregimen am Beispiel der Amway GmbH

Groß, Claudia; Haunschild, Axel - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 27 (2013) 2, pp. 81-102

', der entlang von vier Dimensionen eine Balance zwischen den Werten Freiheit, Gemeinschaft und Gerechtigkeit herzustellen … problems with the values of justice and community and how organizations seek to address and partially solve these tensions. We …

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Does community context have important bearings on the divorce rate? A fixed-effects study of twenty Norwegian first-marriage cohorts

Lyngstad, Torkild H. - 2006

Decisions to divorce could be affected by a number of characteristics of the local community. Community characteristics … community-level factors that may influence a couple's risk of divorce: Socioeconomic conditions, the local marriage market, and … the normative climate. Discrete-time hazard models with community-level fixed effects are estimated using a register …

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The role of poverty and community norms in child labor and schooling decisions

Strulik, Holger - 2008

children. Accounting for these natural links we investigate whether and when there is an additional role for community norms … of a community manages to initiate a bandwagon effect towards an equilibrium where all children are sent to school. …

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School attendance and child labor: A model of collective behavior

Strulik, Holger - 2010

This paper theoretically investigates how community approval or disapproval affects school attendance and child labor … and how aggregate behavior of the community feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti- (or pro …-) schooling norm. The proposed community-model continues to take aggregate and idiosyncratic poverty into account as an important …

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(Post-)materialist attitudes and the mix of capital and labour taxation

König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - 2008

Social values shape policy outcomes. We examine the role of postmaterialism, a widely used concept in the social sciences, for the mix of capital and labour taxation chosen by a society. Following political scientist Inglehart, we define the degree of postmaterialism as the relative importance...

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Culture and tax structures

König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - 2012

We argue that societies with a stronger tendency towards postmaterialist life goals tilt the tax structure towards personal income taxes and away from corporate taxation. We provide empirical evidence for this correlation in OECD countries. To address endogeneity issues we then use an...

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Is Vietnam the youngest goose in Japan's flight formation?

Goydke, Tim - In: Intereconomics 34 (1999) 4, pp. 192-200

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Die ökonomische und wirtschaftspolitische Entwicklung Lateinamerikas nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg

Foders, Federico - 2001

This paper first analyzes the comparative economic growth performance of Latin America in the period 1950-2001. Then it reviews industrial and trade policies, macroeconomic stabilization and institutional development in Latin American countries. In the final section the emerging approach to...

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