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Organized crime and foreign direct investment: the Italian case
Daniele, Vittorio; Marani, Ugo - 2008
The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of crime on FDI inflows in 103 Italian provinces. The incidence of criminality is measured through the number of complaints for different kinds of crime. The analysis has been conducted using different estimation methods for panel data. The...
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Industrialization under Medieval Conditions? Global Development after COVID-19
Naudé, Wim - 2020
Industrialization is vital for inclusive and sustainable global development. The two engines of industrialization - innovation and trade - are in danger of being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, under conditions increasingly reminiscent of the medieval world. It comes at a time when...
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Industrialization under Medieval Conditions? Global Development after COVID-19
Naudé, Wim - 2020
Industrialization is vital for inclusive and sustainable global development. The two engines of industrialization – innovation and trade – are in danger of being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, under conditions increasingly reminiscent of the medieval world. It comes at a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322628
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South Africa's response to the Covid-19 pandemic: The crisis in the context of the history of South African capitalism
Scully, Ben - 2023
This paper is part of a comparative project on the Varieties of Covid-19 Reactions and Changing Modes of Globalization in the Global South. The project employs a comparative analysis of two industries-automobiles and clothing/textiles-across four countries in order to analyze the impacts of the...
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China's quest for innovation: Progress and bottlenecks
García Herrero, Alicia; Schindowski, Robin - 2023
As the Chinese economy continues to decelerate, the central government is investing heavily in innovation, doubling down on research and development (R&D) spending and STEM-oriented human capital. In this paper, we assess China's progress so far, looking at the inputs to innovation (R&D and...
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Did COVID-19 (Permanently) Raise the Demand for "Teleworkable" Jobs?
Bratti, Massimiliano; Brunetti, I.; Corvasce, A.; … - 2024
large spatial variation in the intensity of the pandemic observed in Italy. Namely, we investigate the effect of COVID-19 … larger firms, of service firms, and of those located in Northern Italy. …
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The Effects of Air Pollution on COVID-19 Related Mortality in Northern Italy
Coker, Eric; Cavalli, Laura; Fabrizi, Enrico; … - 2020
.5) and excess deaths in the first quarter of 2020 in municipalities of Northern Italy. The study accounts for potentially … suggests a positive association of ambient PM2.5 concentration on excess mortality in Northern Italy related to the COVID-19 …
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Welfare States, Labor Markets, Social Investment and the Digital Transformation
Eichhorst, Werner; Hemerijck, Anton; Scalise, Gemma - 2020
chapter explores how Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, in terms of the strengths and vulnerabilities of their labour market …
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Tracking COVID-19 spread in Italy with mobility data
Bilgin, Nuriye Melisa - 2020
investigating possible links between individual mobility and the spread of the COVID-19 virus in Italy. By relying on the daily data … Italy. Individual presence in public vs. residential spaces has a more significant effect on the number of COVID-19 cases in …
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COVID-19: Mortality, future years lost, and demographic structure. Italy and Kenya compared
Bell, Clive - 2020
years and future lifetime years of work ensuing from a hypothetical 25,000 excess deaths in Italy, whose affluent population … is one of the world's oldest, with those in Kenya, whose population is one of the most youthful and poor. If Italy … working years would be slightly higher than Italy's, whereas the aggregate number of deaths and the loss of future lifetime …
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