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The Anatomy of Emerging African Capitalist States
Stambuli, Kalonga - EconWPA - 2002
The author argues that the doctrine of state supremacy in Africa suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561041
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African mothers, workers and wives: inequality and segregation = la femme africaine: mere, epouse et travailleuse: inegalites et segregation.
C, Oppong - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1987
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010965922
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More fair play in an ultimatum game after resettlement in Zimbabwe: A field experiment and a structural model
Kohler, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Zimbabwean villagers of distinct background have resettled in government organized land reforms for more than three decades. Against this backdrop, I assess the level of social cohesion in some of the newly established communities by estimating average preferences for fairness in a structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260414
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Attitudes towards abortion and contraception in rural and urban Burkina Faso
Rossier, Clémentine - In: Demographic Research 17 (2007) 2, pp. 23-58
Using results from the ethnographic literature and two qualitative studies on people’s representations of different means of birth control (abstinence, contraception, abortion) in two populations in Burkina Faso (one rural and one urban), we designed a multi-dimensional quantitative scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991805
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“Fettered” and “unfettered” capitalism in J.A. Schumpeter’s concept of Tax State and economic development
Sledzik, Karol - Instytut Badañ Gospodarczych (IBG) - 2015
, future crises, the factors affecting the modern economy, about the essence of contemporary capitalism, demographic problems … and overgrown bureaucracy. The most spectacular threat to capitalism, (based on private entrepreneurship) according to … that we may have to deal with “Tax State” which is typical for “fettered capitalism” and with “entrepreneurial state” which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011249456
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The credit crisis: a golden opportunity to extend localisation and stimulate genuinely sustainable local economic development
Lamb, Julian; Leach, Karen - In: International Journal of Green Economics 5 (2011) 2, pp. 204-212
The credit crisis and associated economic instability continues to cause great anxiety; and even after two years there appears little appetite to talk in terms of the 'green shoots of recovery' (Woodcock, 2009; Nelson, 2011). Nevertheless, this crisis is clearly illuminating the inequitable and...
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Is “economic freedom” strictly free market capitalism? A decompositional analysis of the Economic Freedom of the World index
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The Frasier Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World is often taken as a metric of market capitalism. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560960
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WHAT DID YOU LEARN IN THE WORLD TODAY?
SEN, A. - Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), … - 1991
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Neoliberalism’s relationship with economic growth in the developing world: Was it the power of the market or the resolution of financial crisis?
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
inward investment that occurred after the Cold War. I argue that free market capitalism itself may not have promoted economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532159
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Progresso tecnológico, distribuição de renda e utilização da capacidade produtiva
Ono, Fabio Hideki; Oreiro, José Luís - In: Economia 5 (2004) 1, pp. 35-66
The paper presents a post-keynesian growth model in which (i) the mark-up rate varies in the long-term due to a misalignment between the actual rate and the 'anticipated' profit rate; and (ii) the capital-output ratio is not necessarily constant, on the contrary, it may shift as a result of the...
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