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Shedding New Light on Multinational Corporations and Human Rights : Promises and Limits of 'Blockchainizing' the Global Supply Chain
Tsai, Chang-hsien; Lin, Ching-Fu - 2023
Over the last few decades, advances in transportation and production technology, in conjunction with economic globalization and the emergence of multinational corporations, have consolidated fragmented production processes into long and complex supply chains across jurisdictions. While there are...
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Common roots, shared traits, joint prospects? : on the articulation of multiple modernities in Benin and Haiti
Kohnert, Dirk - 2007
The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas...
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Determinants and Economic Consequences of Colonization : A Global Analysis
Ertan, Arhan S. - 2012
Research on economic growth suggests that the era of colonization has had an impact on the levels of economic development of countries around the globe. However, why some countries were colonized early, some late, and others not at all, and what effect these differences have had on current...
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Algunos Comentarios Sobre La Exclusión Económica Global : Un Análisis Al Azar De La Pobreza En Algunos Países Subdesarrollados (Some Comments On The Global Economic Exclusion: A Ra...
Bravo, Jaime - 2013
A lo largo de los últimos años, parece que la situación de pobreza (el Banco Mundial la cifra en vivir con menos de $1,25) ha ido reduciéndose. De hecho, la mayoría de las estadísticas amparan esta información. Es algo que, a primera vista, parece que sucede. Pero, ¿es realmente así? El...
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Two Approaches to Global Competition : A Historical Review
Alam, M. Shahid - 2013
From the standpoint of policies, the different branches of economics may be aggregated into two categories: dirigiste and laissez fairist. Dirigiste theories in economics have been based primarily on the complexity of commodities: this allows commodities to be ranked according to the...
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Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs : Unlocking Entrepreneurial Capabilities to Meet the Global Challenges of the 21st Century
Wilson, Karen E. - 2011
of entrepreneurship ecosystems, in which education is a key driver. The report highlights the importance of … entrepreneurship education for developing the skills, attitudes and behaviours necessary to create jobs, generate economic growth … entrepreneurship education practices across the globe covering youth (with a focus on disadvantaged youth), higher education (focusing …
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009
This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …
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Exporting embedded in culture and transnational networks around entrepreneurs : a global study
Ashourizadeh, Shayegheh; Schøtt, Thomas - In: International journal of business and globalisation : IJBG 16 (2016) 3, pp. 314-334
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China and India in the Global Economy
Hölscher, Jens - 2014
The purpose of this overview paper is to present the economic growth in China and India over the last three decades with a specific focus on the integration of these countries into the global economy. In the first part, we briefly review the long-run process of growth and institutional change,...
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