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Recession and India - Impact on Indian IT Industry
Khan, Saeed - 2014
In economics sense, recession is a general slowdown in economic activity over a long period of time, or a business cycle contraction. During recessions, many macroeconomic indicators vary in a similar way. Production as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), employment, investment, spending,...
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Impact Investing 2.0 : Building the Impact Economy
Martin, Maximilian - 2020
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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Natural rate estimates differ : by how much?
Bethencourt, Carlos; Stadtmann, Georg - 2019
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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Assessing the effects of gender stereotype in STEM in a Brazilian university
Alvarenga, Camila; Braga, Cicero Augusto Silveira - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 25 (2024) 1, pp. 74-91
Purpose In Brazil, over 4.7 million women enrolled in university in the year 2017. However, Brazilian women have been consistently overrepresented in humanities and care majors and underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Given that observed gender differences...
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Place-Based Income Management Legislation : Impacts on Food Security
Spencer, Liesel - 2018
This paper reports on the findings of empirical field research into the impact of ‘place-based income management' (PBIM) legislation on food security for trial participants in the trial site of Bankstown, New South Wales. This research aims to address a gap in existing evaluative data on the...
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On the Economic Effects of Unenforced Regulation in Employment Law
Harel, Alon - 2016
Mandatory restrictions in employment law, designed to promote the welfare of workers, are debated fiercely. Proponents argue that they protect workers. Opponents believe that they spawn inefficiency and harm workers. Yet all agree that their welfare implications depend on their degree of...
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The US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) : Should it Leave a Door Open for Non-Legal Arbitrators?
Fach Gómez, Katia - 2016
This article reflects on the suitability of including non-legal arbitrators in certain investment arbitrations. It presents different mechanisms that have been used in the investment arbitration context to aid legal arbitrators with scientific-technical issues and contemplates the drawbacks of...
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Revoking Brexit : Can Member States Rescind Their Declaration of Withdrawal from the European Union?
Dammann, Jens - 2018
In June 2016, British voters did the unthinkable: by a narrow margin, they voted for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union. While this referendum was not legally binding, the new British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has left no doubt that she will abide by the outcome and declare the...
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Does a House of Congress Have Standing Over Appropriations? : The House of Representatives Challenges the Affordable Care Act
Mank, Bradford C. - 2016
In U.S. House of Representatives v. Sylvia Matthews Burwell, the District Court for D.C. in 2015 held that the House of Representatives has Article III standing to challenge certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act as violations of the Constitution's Appropriations Clause. The Supreme...
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and the TRIPS Waiver : Patents and Flexibility
Lawson, Charles; Rourke, Michelle - 2022
, application and enforcement for the prevention, containment or treatment of COVID-19. This comment addresses the ways that TRIPS …The World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS … surveillance, tracking, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19. A possible solution is a TRIPS waiver of the implementation …
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