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Two issues stand out in this conversation. The first concerns the unfinished business of the global fight against the scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic performance - affordable and efficient public...
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Although the rest of the world had waited a long time for China to open up, feelings were mixed when it actually did … and began to integrate rapidly with the world economy. With the country’s recent accession to the World Trade Organization … (WTO), many of its trading partners are increasingly concerned that China’s competition in the world goods and capital …
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Im ifo-Konjunkturtest International vom Januar 1990 beurteilten die Experten aus 54 Ländern die Wirtschaftslage zwar im Durchschnitt zufriedenstellend, jedoch leicht schlechter als im Oktober 1989. In den Industrie- und Entwicklungsländern blieb das Wirtschaftsklima auf hohem bzw. niedrigem...
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Der deutsche Lebensmitteleinzelhandel ist durch einen starken Preiswettbewerb gekennzeichnet. Hinweise für … deutschen Lebensmitteleinzelhandel sind jedoch häufig große Preisdifferenzen bei gleichen Produkten zu beobachten, die unter …
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German food retailing is characterized by fierce competition among retail chains for consumer shopping. This paper considers the switching behaviour using data of white dairy product purchases. The empirical investigation uses a survival analysis approach, in particular hazard analysis. The...
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The deepening of the Barcelona Agreement and the discussions of the creation of a Mediterranean Union has awakened the interest of the non-EU Mediterranean countries to expand their exports to the European markets. This study analyses the factors that influence the German imports of olive oil by...
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Singapore?s outward FDI is peculiar in important respects, even though it shares some characteristics with FDI undertaken by traditional investor countries. The focus of FDI in the manufacturing sector on lower-income Asian host countries suggests that the motivations and trade repercussions of...
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Recently gravity trade models are applied to disaggregated trade data. Here many zeros are characteristic. In the presence of excess zeros usual Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML) is still consistent, the variance covariance matrix however is invalid. Correct economic interpretation...
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