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When Government Spending Serves the Elites: Consequences for Economic Growth in a Context of Market Imperfections

Lopez, Ramon E.; Islam, Asif M. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2008

Government spending should be regarded as a social and political phenomenon, not merely as a technical choice. We argue that there is an implicit contract between the organized elites and politicians which often leads to a pro-elite allocation of public resources. A natural and simple taxonomy...

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Multinational enterprises in Australia: a preliminary overview of the effects on employment.

MacDonald, G - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1994

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Electricity Interconnectors: A Serious Challenge for EC Competition Law

Talus, K.; Wälde, T. - In: Competition and Regulation in Network Industries 7 (2006) 3, pp. 355-391

Interconnectors pose a challenge to EC competition law. Finding investment for capital-intensive infrastructure investment such as interconnectors means that the requirements of financiers and project sponsors for long-term predictability of cash flow is assured. T at usually involves long-term...

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Services trade and economic growth in India: an analysis in the post-reform period

Dash, Ranjan Kumar; Parida, Purna Chandra - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 3, pp. 326-345

Services sector in India contributes more than 60% of the overall gross domestic product (GDP) and more than 40% of total trade. This sector also absorbs a chunk of manpower, especially in export-oriented industries and reduces the employment burden on other non-services sectors. In this...

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A causality analysis on GDP and air emissions in Norway

Liu, Gang - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2006

This paper conducts Granger-causality tests on real per capita GDP and four types of air emissions (CO2, CO, SO2 and NOx) by using Norwegian data covering the period 1973-2003. The test results indicate that only unidirectional causal relationships exist between GDP and air emissions. For CO2...

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Republic of Belarus; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

economy, and presents an overview of economic benefits of deregulation, labor market liberalization, and enterprise reform …

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Deregulation, economic growth and growth acceleration

Stankov, Petar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The paper analyzes the influence of credit-, labor-, and product market deregulation policies on economic growth in … work finds that deregulation contributed to the per capita GDP levels of the early reformers relatively more than to the … acceleration effect for the late reformers, which points to large dynamic welfare gains from deregulation. The latter result …

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