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The vast mineral deposits of Mongolia, if properly managed, could make available large budgetary resources, which would help address a wide range of its economic challenges. This report focuses on Mongolia’s selected issues in the mining sector, government employment and wages, and saving...
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substantial impact on productivity growth in the gold mining industry in Canada. The real price of gold declined steadily … evidence that the gold mining industry in Canada was not in good health towards the end of the 1970s, despite the record gold … performance from the Canadian gold mining industry over the past four decades. It is found that real price movements have had a …
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balance and employment rate in Canada. However, the effect of NAFTA on the USA is unclear, i.e. it does not show a negative or … rate in the USA due to NAFTA. Therefore, more study is needed to determine whether the USA has lost jobs or lowered the … wage rate in the USA. …
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This paper examines the J-curve hypothesis for Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. Applying the vector error … depreciation in several different patterns in the short run. There is lack of support for a J-curve for Australia, Canada, and the … UK. In the long run, real depreciation improves the trade balance for Australia, Canada, and New Zealand and does not …
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The recent financial crisis has plagued banking institutions around the world. Using a non-parametric (data envelopment analysis) approach, we measure operating and profit efficiency of 21 commercial banks from four countries during 2004-2010. The results suggest that for the most part there is...
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openness, using panel-VAR methods in relation to ten significant OECD countries: Austria, Canada, Finland, Iceland, Ireland …, Japan, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and the USA, between 1970 and 2010. We find that foreign direct investment, trade openness …
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The compensation hypothesis predicts a positive causation from international economic openness to the size of the public sector, as governments step in to perform a risk mitigating role to counterbalance the increasing exposure to external risk and the economic dislocations caused by growing...
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, conjoint analysis was used to explore the preferences of consumers in the USA, the UK and Canada for organic food. The results … suggest that consumers in the UK and Canada do not have a strong attachment to the current national organic standards and that …
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