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Impact assessment and project appraisal : journal of the International Association for Impact Assessment
International Association for Impact Assessment - London : Taylor & Francis; 1998-2011: Guildford, Surrey … - 16.1998,1(März) -
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Does aid induce brain drain? : a panel data analysis
Ontiveros, Darwin Ugarte; Veradi, Vincenzo - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-19
Recent evidence suggests that aid induces migration. This result is nevertheless not very informative from a policy perspective since what counts in terms of welfare consequences is the composition of migration. In this paper we focus on education and study which of skilled or unskilled...
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The International Monetary Fond as a creator of the global financial system
Kitanovic, Violeta Spaseska; Kozuharov, Saso - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 3 (2012) 1, pp. 83-90
IMF and World Bank were created after the Second World War as a result of monetary and fiscal Conference of the United … construction of Europe which was destroyed in the Second World War, and to protect the world from further economic depressions. The … decision that was reached at Breton Wood was influenced by the global economic depression which had affected the world in the …
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Challenges and policy lessons for the growth-employment-poverty nexus in developing countries
Fields, Gary S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24
Of the world’s 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars … scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the world’s people is one of the most serious problems facing humankind … today. Unemployment (defined below) befalls about 200 million of the world’s people - a sizeable number but small compared …
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Impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth of Pakistan
Saqib, Najia; Masnoon, Maryam; Rafique, Nabeel - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 1, pp. 35-45
Given contrasting evidence in the literature pertaining to the impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the host country’s economy, we take the case of Pakistan and test the said association for this nation. The data used for this study has spanned over the period of 1981 till 2010. Besides FDI,...
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Financial development and economic growth : an empirical analysis for Ireland
Adamopoulos, Antonios - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 1, pp. 75-88
This study investigated the relationship between financial development and economic growth for Ireland for the period 1965-2007 using a vector error correction model (VECM). Questions were raised whether financial development causes economic growth or reversely taking into account the positive...
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The role of savings in the economic development of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Bairamli, Nagi; Kostoglou, Vassilis - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 2, pp. 99-110
This article aims to analyze the possibilities of the accumulation and mobilization of savings and their role in the economic development of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Currently, the national economic growth is mostly based on the resource components; crude oil, natural gas and oil products....
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The impact of mining and services industries on the structural change of Australia
Gurrib, Ikhlaas - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 2, pp. 35-51
Both services and mining industries gained relatively more importance in the structural changes occurring, particularly in recent years, where the rate of structural change has increased. The study aims at defragmenting the mining and services industries, and analyses their impacts on structural...
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Cultura postmaterialista y variaciones en el espiritu emprendedor
Pinillos Costa, Maria José - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 17 (2011) 1, pp. 37-55
The aim of this paper is to explore whether postmaterialism explains differences in Total entrepreneurial-activity rates across Spanish Autonomous Communities. A distinction is made between potential entrepreneurs, nascent entrepreneurship, new business formation and Established business, as...
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Economic development as a matter of political geography
Streb, Jorge M.; Druck, Pablo F. - In: Estudios de economía 34 (2007) 1, pp. 5-20
Can limited government be a driving force of economic development? This idea goes back to Montesquieu, and is closely related to recent research in institutional economics. Measuring limited government with the Henisz political constraints index, and economic development with income per capita,...
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