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Transport technology and economic expansion : the growth contribution of railways in Latin America before 1914
Herranz Loncán, Alfonso - In: Revista de historia económica 32 (2014) 1, pp. 13-45
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Railways in Development : Global Round-Up 1996-2005
Amos, Paul; Thompson, Lou - 2012
This Transport Note has been prepared as an adjunct to the 2006-07 updating of the World Bank's Railways Databases. It uses the databases for inferences on aggregate trends as well as other Bank documents and sources of policy information. It provides a high level view of traffic and policy...
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Railways in Development : Global Round-Up 1996-2005
Amos, Paul; Thompson, Lou - 2012
This Transport Note has been prepared as an adjunct to the 2006-07 updating of the World Bank's Railways Databases (www.worldbank.org/railways). It uses the databases for inferences on aggregate trends (and so subject to the caveats provided in the Explanatory Note cited) as well as other Bank...
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The role of railway infrastructure management in globalization of transporting markets
Matić, Biljana; Ilić, Silvana - In: Ekonomika : međunarodni časopis za ekonomsku teoriju … 60 (2014) 3, pp. 183-194
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Globalization and Nigeria's National Development : WTO and International Trade in Perspective
Sanusi, Aliyu Rafindadi - 2015
This paper argues that the role of international trade and the institutions that promote the raging process of economic globalization is more likely to be debilitating for developing countries that are not well positioned to benefit from it. It argues that because the globalization process has...
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China’s Development Path : Government, Business, and Globalization in an Innovating Economy
Li, Yin; Lazonick, William - 2022
We employ the “social conditions of innovative enterprise” framework to analyze the key determinants of China’s development path from the economic reforms of 1978 to the present. First, we focus on how government investments in human capabilities and physical infrastructure provided...
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Globalization in Retail Culture : FDI in Retail, Opportunities, Challenges to Democratic Element in India
Rohilla, Amit; Bansal, Manoj - 2020
India is a democratic country where everyone is free to choose his/her livelihood sources. Retail is field which has … been chosen by very large number of people (more than one retailer for every hundred people) in India for their livelihood …. And most of the retail trade in India is forced, unorganized and fragmented. Certain bad effects of this fragmentation are …
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More than Best Friends : Expansion of Global Law Firms into the Indian Legal Market
Vena, Chris - 2019
. India is something of an anomaly in this regard. Although it has one of the world’s largest economies and has benefited … developing nations, particularly China, makes this an issue of paramount importance for India’s development.This article examines … India’s ban on the entry of foreign law firms into its legal market and assesses the implications of this policy on Indian …
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Globalization crises, trade, and development in Vietnam
Abbott, Philip; Tarp, Finn - 2011
Vietnam has been among the most successful East Asian economies, especially in weathering the external shocks of recent globalization crises - the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis and the 2008-09 great recession, financial crisis and collapse of global trade. Its success contradicts its...
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Engaging the diaspora in an era of transnationalism : South Korea's engagement with its diaspora can support the country's development
Song, Changzoo - 2014
Since the 1990s, South Korea's population has been aging and its fertility rate has fallen. At the same time, the number of Koreans living abroad has risen considerably. These trends threaten to diminish South Korea's international and economic stature. To mitigate the negative effects of these...
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