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This 2005 Human Development Report takes stock of human development, including progress towards the MDGs. Looking beyond statistics; it highlights the human costs of missed targets and broken promises. Extreme inequality between countries and within countries is identified as one of the main...
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of trade with China became less friendly. Today, GDP in North Korea is reportedly lower than in 1990, notwithstanding a …
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Germany has had an extremely low growth performance since 1995. The paper looks at the long-run reasons for this loss of economic dynamics besides German unification: These include leaving labor idle, a declining share of investment in GDP, a weaker innovative activity, an ineffective system for...
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The research in this paper is focus on macroeconomic analysis of trade and other relevant indicator for real economy … such as government net debt, exchange rate, interest rate, and especially the correlation between trade and growth. Today … trade is challenge for economists of small developing countries. The mail goal in this paper is theoretical analysis of some …
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was a modernizing movement, a radical alteration of the production-trade system, composition and population distribution …
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environment that captures the effects of interregional and intersectoral trade in propagating disaggregated productivity changes … pairwise interregional trade across all 50 U.S. states, 26 traded and non-traded industries, labor as a mobile factor, and … matches the U.S. input-output matrix. Using data on trade flows by industry between states, as well as other regional and …
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across-the-board and universal trade liberalization prescribed by neoliberals, he proposes the necessary changes in WTO rules …
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We model imperfect contract enforcement when the victims of default resort to spot trading because the act of repudiation reveals a favorable outside option. We show that enforcement imperfection is essentially distinct from the contract incompleteness analyzed in the previous literature....
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; global trade; transnational corporations; and multilateral and private finance. …
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Trade logistics facilitate trade. Quality logistics services play an important role in facilitating the transportation … of international trade in goods: inefficient logistics services impede trade by imposing an extra cost in terms of time … that trade logistics play in the volume and value of international trade and the extent to which poor quality logistics …
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