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In 1973, Augusto Pinochet led a US-backed coup against Salvador Allende, Chile's democratically elected president. Pinochet's supporters argued that the coup was the only way to save the country amid statism and socioeconomic breakdown. But how much was Allende to blame for the crisis that...
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Purpose - The current pandemic is difficult to model - and thus difficult to control. In contrast to the previous epidemics, whose dynamics were smooth and well described by the existing models, the statistics of the current pandemic are highly oscillating. The purpose of this paper is to...
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unaddressed by existing literature on administrative burdens: the complexity of the written language used by government agencies … in Latin America. It presents an impact evaluation of the Lenguaje Claro Program of Colombia’s National Planning … Department. A randomized control trial compared two versions of a letter - the original and one with plain language - used by the …
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This paper explores the synchronicity of two mega-crises we are now facing: The BP oil spill and the repercussions of the 2008 financial meltdown. It examines some key common threads in both of these crises. The overarching message is that firms must maintain a culture of social responsibility,...
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We examine the natural rate of unemployment estimates of two international organizations (OECD and European Commission) and various release dates. Since estimates differ to a large extent, empirical research results which use natural rate estimates will also vary depending on the data source...
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Brexit, the current position of Great Britain to withdraw from the European Union is envisaged as an opposition to the globally accepted neo-functionalist idea and rather seeks to project regional disintegration as a more effective and efficient way of socio-economic and political development...
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This course focuses on “impact investing 2.0” and was taught at the University of St. Gallen in 2016. Excluding illiquid assets and cash, the World Wealth Report 2016 calculated that globally, 31% of high net worth investment portfolios are based on the concept of social gain. Over the past...
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Spanish Abstract: El estudio “Impacto social de los programas de pregrado de la Universidad EAFIT”, que aquí se presenta, refleja los compromisos de la Universidad con las políticas de calidad que ha venido practicando, con sus egresados, y, en términos generales, con la búsqueda de la...
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