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Chapter 23 Civil War
Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 711-739). 2007
Civil wars are intricate social, political and psychological phenomena. However, economics can offer analytical insights which are useful alongside the more conventional approach of case-studies. Indeed, the policy conclusions drawn from economic analysis sometimes cast doubt on conventional...
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Central Bank Intervention and Exchange Rate Expectations: Evidence from the Daily DM/US-Dollar Exchange Rate
Reitz, Stefan - 2002
bank intervention on exchange rates. Within a heterogeneous expectations exchange rate model intervention operations are … to daily US-dollar/DEM forward rates and intervention data of the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Federal Reserve from 1979 …
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Das internationale Engagement in Afghanistan: Strategien, Perspektiven, Konsequenzen
Schmidt, Peter (contributor) - 2008
Im Juni dieses Jahres bekundeten die in Afghanistan engagierten Staaten auf der Pariser Konferenz ihre Absicht, der Kabuler Regierung die volle Verantwortung für den Aufbau des Landes zu übertragen. Diese Politik erscheint zwar alternativlos, führt angesichts der schwindenden Unterstützung,...
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Central Bank Intervention and Exchange Rate Expectations: Evidence from the Daily DM/US-Dollar Exchange Rate
Reitz, Stefan - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2002
bank intervention on exchange rates. Within a heterogeneous expectations exchange rate model intervention operations are … to daily US-dollar/DEM forward rates and intervention data of the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Federal Reserve from 1979 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059033
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Central bank intervention and exchange rate expectations : evidence from the daily DM/US-Dollar exchange rate
Reitz, Stefan - 2002
bank intervention on exchange rates. Within a heterogeneous expectations exchange rate model intervention operations are … to daily US-dollar/DEM forward rates and intervention data of the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Federal Reserve from 1979 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431685
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Sinopse: Relatorio Sobre A Nutricao Mundial De 2014: Medidas e responsabilizacao para acelerar o progresso mundial da nutricao
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); … - 2014
A boa nutrição é fundamental para se construírem vidas saudáveis, meios de subsistência fortes e resilientes, e economias prósperas. Em sua ausência, a construção é feita em areia movediça. Crianças com atraso de crescimento não se desenvolvem adequadamente e, em especial,...
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Globalization and suzerainty
Bucur, Ion - In: Manager Journal 7 (2008) 1, pp. 65-68
reconstruction and rethinking of the intervention way and of the action capacity. Arguments regarding the state'Â’s transformation …
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Verification of Performance in Results-Based Financing Programs: The Case of Plan Nacer in Argentina
Perazzo, Alfredo; Josephson, Erik - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Verification in results-based financing (RBF) mechanisms is one of the key differentiators between it and related health financing structures such as social health insurance. Verifying that providers have achieved reported performance in RBF mechanisms is considered a crucial part of program...
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Does Professional Development of Preschool Teachers Improve Child Socio-Emotional Outcomes?
Jensen, Bente; Jensen, Peter; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
early childhood education by providing training to the preschool teachers. The purpose of the intervention is to improve … child socio-emotional outcomes (measured by SDQ), especially for socially disadvantaged children. The intervention … results show improvements in several subscales of the SDQ scale. However, the intervention proves less beneficial for socially …
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What Prompts Central Bank Intervention in the Barbadian Foreign Exchange Market?
Jackman, Mahalia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
daily clearing of the FX market. This paper estimates an FX intervention function for Barbados using a dynamic complementary … log-log model. Three general findings emerged: (i) dynamics play an important role in the Central Bank’s intervention … function, meaning that the probability that an intervention takes place today is conditional upon an intervention taking place …
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