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Factors related to the depth of the latest crisis for EU-27 countries: The key role of relative inequality/poverty
Georgopoulos, Demosthenes; Papadogonas, Theodore; … - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 3, pp. 308-311
In this paper we investigate the relationship between the intensity of the recent global economic crisis and the current economic position of EU countries on the one hand and relative poverty and/or inequality on the other. Using data from the 27 EU member states we find a link between economic...
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Chapter 22. RBC Methodology and the Development of Aggregate Economic Theory
Prescott, E.C. - In: Handbook of macroeconomics : volume 2, v. 2A-2B SET, (pp. 1759-1787). 2016
This essay reviews the development of neoclassical growth theory, a unified theory of aggregate economic phenomena that … development, and foreign direct investment. The focus of this essay is on real business cycle (RBC) methodology. Those who employ …
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The modernity of backwardness
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper revisits one of the classic debates on world capitalist development – the ‘transition to capitalism’ debate …. However the reverse happens, and development theory is deprived of an adequate explanation for national differentiation in … assesses the skewed character which results, in contemporary accounts (both within and outside economics) of development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836280
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The Poverty of Statistics
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
goods masked a systematic failure, for much of the third world, to overcome the central problem of development – the high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034370
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Explaining national inequality: the relevance of Marx and the irrelevance of equilibrium
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper was originally presented at the ‘Marxism and Political Economy’ conference called by the International Socialist Journal on Saturday 29th September 2007. A revised version was presented to the Historical Materialism conference on 13th November 2007. It enquires why, although...
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Relations between institutions and industrial policies
Strachman, Eduardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
The paper aims to show some of the complex relationships between institutions and industrial policies. Institutions are important factors determining the slow pace of change of the societies, their economies, States and private sectors, therefore presenting important consequences for the design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014707
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Educational access and poverty reduction: the case of Ghana 1991-2006
Rolleston, Caine - In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación
Ghana has seen notable poverty reduction alongside improvements in school participation since 1991. This paper examines the role of education in determining welfare and poverty and its reciprocal, the role of welfare and other aspects of economic privilege in the determination of school...
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Research and Science Today No. 1(5)/2013
ADAM, Elena; TRIȘCAȘ, Floarea Elena; NICOARĂ, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Research and Science Today Journal is a publication founded in 2011 and it is dedicated to the students of all levels (license, master and doctoral) of faculties in the country and abroad. We want to offer the participants the opportunity to present their scientific works in the following areas:...
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Implications of the Economic Interactions between Northern and Southern Tribes of Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
practice. Additionally, development issues are weak with lack of infrastructure, investments and governmental services of …, services and directed development programs. Moreover, new agreements are required to avoid transforming those societies into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295270
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Proposal for a New Economic Framework Based On Islamic Principles
Shaikh, Salman Ahmed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This book provides a holistic socio-economic framework working in conformity with the Islamic principles. Chapter 2 builds the ground for the proposed framework by discussing the foundations of the ethical precepts of Islam. It discusses the thesis of religion, answers some of the questions in...
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