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Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...
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Why are we rich and others poor? What is preventing the less-developed countries from catching up with the more developed? How did we become rich? Underlying these questions are more fundamental ones: What is the nature of economic progress? What are its causes? I seek the answers to these...
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development. It is only relatively recently that the discussion has gradually focused on the links between different dimensions of …
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Many studies have estimated the growth effects of globalization where globalization was measured with a few economic variables, ignoring its social and political dimensions. Recently Dreher (2006) has developed a comprehensive measure of globalization with several variables from the economic,...
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Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023255
The European sovereign debt crisis has demonstrated the need for a rethinking of the European integration project. The strong variety between member countries prevented Eurozone to become a fiscal and political union and the asymmetric architecture of EMU revealed different weaknesses. The...
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To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
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marginalized or given up, Italian socio-economic systems need to think out models of differentiated development on a local level … classified as rural, it is indispensable to think up models of development whose main reference point is agriculture. Agriculture … fundamental role for the territorial development. The aim of this paper is to highlight the need to organize an adequate political …
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degradation), financial development, and trade openness using the ordinary least squares technique for a yearly panel data of 40 … financial sector development, GDP and trade openness, financial sector development and trade openness, and trade openness and … of the bidirectional causality among trade openness and financial sector development. Besides, we find the neutrality …
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economic growth, although some of the items it includes had been recognized as relevant factor of social development.In this …
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