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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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La prestación del servicio postal universal en un contexto de precio uniforme y descremado del mercado : ¿Existe riesgo de graveyard spiral?
Pateiro Rodríguez, Carlos; Prado Domínguez, Javier; … - In: Atlantic review of economics 2 (2011), pp. 1-27
This paper focuses on the problems posed by the uniform price and market cream skimming in a context in which the incumbent is restricted asymmetric prices and products and analyzes the risks of a graveyard spiral process. We point that the price elasticity of demand, the brand loyalty and the...
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Free movement of money in the European Union : the role of European Court of Justice in the formation of free movement of capital and payments
Białek, Natalia; Bazylko, Arkadiusz - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 2, pp. 57-69
Free movement of capital and payments is one of four fundamental principles, whose undisturbed operation is vital for proper functioning of the Common Market. In the first stage of the European Community, this freedom served a rather ancillary function, facilitating the full use of the freedom...
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Consistencia de indicadores de especialización en el comercio internacional : plicación al caso de la mantequilla en Argentina y Uruguay
Depetris Guiguet, Edith; García Arancibia, Rodrigo; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 9 (2010), pp. 85-105
variation, based on trade balance flows. It is applied to the particular case of Argentina and Uruguay butter world trade during …
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NAFTA's trade effects : new evidence with a gravity model
Montenegro, Claudio E.; Soloaga, Isidro - In: Estudios de economía 33 (2006) 1, pp. 45-63
Mexico nor with other countries in the world (with the exception of CACM). -- NAFTA ; gravity model ; trade diversion ; fixed …
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Discriminación arancelaria y decisiones de localización de las empresas
Méndez Naya, José - In: Estudios de economía 33 (2006) 1, pp. 5-19
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of economic integration among countries on firms investment decisions when such decisions are taken strategically. It is shown that, in this context, the traditional "tariff jumping" argument is not always applicable and that localisation...
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Die griechische Wirtschaft braucht eine Wachstumsstrategie
Brenke, Karl - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 5, pp. 3-15
Griechenland hat lange Zeit über seine Verhältnisse gelebt und sich im Ausland verschuldet. Die hohe Staatsschuld ist nur ein Ausdruck der Probleme, die eigentliche Ursache ist die unzureichende Wirtschaftskraft. Die vorrangige politische Aufgabe besteht darin, die wirtschaftliche Substanz -...
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China : trotz hoher gesamtwirtschaftlicher Dynamik noch keine Lokomotive der Weltwirtschaft
Dreger, Christian; Zhang, Yanqun - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 33, pp. 3-7
world. This article will analyze the extent to which China already determines macroeconomic growth in the euro area and the …
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BRICS : Deutschland profitiert vom Wachstum in Brasilien, Russland, Indien, China und Südafrika ; wie lange noch?
Erber, Georg; Schrooten, Mechthild - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 34, pp. 2-9
Brasilien, Russland, Indien, China und Südafrika - die sogenannten BRICS - weisen im internationalen Vergleich hohe gesamtwirtschaftliche Zuwachsraten auf. Auch während der jüngsten Wirtschaftskrise verzeichneten die meisten BRICS-Staaten noch ein überdurchschnittliches Wachstum. Der...
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