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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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Does competition increase economic efficiency in Swedish county councils?

Rudholm, Nikas; Nordmark, Arvid; Marklund, Per-Olov - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 77-91

The Swedish health care system is to a large extent publicly managed by 21 local county councils. During recent years there has been a movement were local county councils have opted to allow more of the production to be performed by alternative producers (i.e. private firms, cooperatives etc.)....

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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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