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Abstract This study compares industrial production and gross value added in volume terms in the euro area and euro area countries, because real GDP growth signals from industrial production growth might be misleading and earlier released industrial production growth is not one-to-one translated...
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline Project (TANAP) on industrial production in Turkey. The TANAP is a project which ensures the security of the country’s natural gas supply and encourages a decrease in energy prices. So,...
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The effects of the minimum wage on employment in Western economies are relatively uncontroversial. The introduction of a minimum wage in Czechoslovakia at the start of the transition, and its increase one year later, gives the opportunity to evaluate to what extent its effects on employment seem...
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This paper employs a Generalised Autoregressive Conditional Heteroske‐dasticity in Mean (GARCH‐M) model to consider the effect of macroeconomic factors on Australian property returns over the period 1985 to 2002. Three direct (office, retail and industrial property) and two indirect (listed...
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Consumers in developing countries often complain that the quality of locally manufactured consumer goods is far below their expectations. The general remedies suggested to improve product quality are to adopt the latest quality control concepts that are being applied in more industrialised...
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Cochabamba, Bolivia. Through various “horizontal” and “vertical” methods of organising, the Coordinadora, the overarching …
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to consider the role of mass mobilisations against international business in Bolivia … interviews with key political actors in Bolivia which were part of a wider ethnographic study exploring the emergence of the new … Bolivia. Subsequently, these social movements constructed a new identity as the “people” and implemented a more radical form …
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and Bolivia. Research limitations/implications – Sample size does not allow making representative statements or …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the viability for Bolivia of attaining the United Nations millennium … goal of halving extreme poverty by 2015 seems to be a difficult, but attainable goal for Bolivia. Given the expected debt …
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‐based small enterprise. The paper then discusses Bolivia's low recidivism rates, and draws the conclusion that the necessity for … data in Bolivia is extremely difficult. Future research into data collection methods in the Bolivian prison will be useful …
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