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In Times of Crisis : Public Perceptions Towards COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps in China, Germany and the US
Kostka, Genia; Habich-Sobiegalla, Sabrina - 2021
The adoption of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps (CTAs) has been proposed as an important measure to contain the spread of COVID-19. Based on a cross-national dataset, this paper analyzes public perceptions towards CTAs and the factors that drive CTA acceptance in China, Germany, and the United...
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Impacts of Active Social Programs on Labor Market
Terziev, Venelin - 2018
The paper discusses the main characteristics of the active social programs on the labor market implemented in Bulgaria in periods of active transformations. The active programs' advantages are analyzed and some important considerations on the process of assessment of their effectiveness are made...
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Financial liberalization and growth in African economies : the role of policy complementarities
Njikam, Ousmanou - In: Review of development finance 7 (2017) 1, pp. 73-83
This paper examines whether the effect of financial liberalization on economic growth depends on reform complementarities. A non-linear growth regression specification that interacts a proxy of financial liberalization with proxies of reform complementarities is estimated using a panel of 45...
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Trade and FDI thresholds of CO2 emissions for a green economy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2020
This research focuses on assessing how improving openness influences CO2 emissions in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is based on 49 countries in SSA for the period 2000-2018 divided into: (i) 44 countries in SSA for the period 2000-2012; and (ii) 49 countries for the period 2006- 2018. Openness is measured...
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Special Economic Zones and local economic activities in Ethiopia
Abagna, Matthew Amalitinga - 2023
Do Special Economic Zones (SEZs) increase local economic activities in developing countries? This paper explores this question by examining the aggregate district economic effects of SEZs, a place-based development policy in Ethiopia. The study relies on time and district variation in the...
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One Million or One Hundred Million Casualties? – The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the Least Developed and Developing Countries
Zetzsche, Dirk A.; Consiglio, Roberta - 2020
This paper argues that the overall impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the least developed and developing countries is massive, with a potentially very high number of casualties: we float an entirely arbitrary figure of 100 million. To arrive at this number, we collect and collate the different...
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Ten Million or One Hundred Million Casualties? – The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the Least Developed and Developing Countries and Europe’s Sustainability Agenda
Zetzsche, Dirk A.; Consiglio, Roberta - 2021
This is an updated and extended version of the University of Luxembourg Law Working Paper 2020-008 of 02/10/2020 (https://ssrn.com/abstract=3597657) which puts the European policy response to COVID-19 into context with the European sustainable finance action plan.This chapter argues that the...
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Corruption in Brazil and Its Effects on Economic Growth
Rodrigo-Caldeira, Deborah - 2017
This research study summarises the effects of corruption in Brazil and its effects on the economic growth of the … economy and therefore the economic growth of a country: the human capita, GDP per capita and the corruption; it is possible to … theoretical analysis of how corruption may affect an economy of a country, and using them alongside with the data from the …
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Corruption and Firms
Colonnelli, Emanuele - 2020
over the period 2003-2014 using rich micro-data on corruption and firms. After anti-corruption audits, municipalities … administrative firm level datasets and face-to-face firm surveys, we argue that corruption mostly acts as a tax on the local economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012854549
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Readiness and resilience of the health systems of the UK and Russia during Covid-19 epidemics in 2020-2021 : impacts of priorities, shortages and rationing
Davis, Christopher M. - In: Post-communist economies 33 (2021) 1, pp. 1-63
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