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The United Arab Emirates: Some lessons in economic development

Nyarko, Yaw - 2010

Oil was discovered in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) just 50 years ago. During that time, UAE has been able to transform itself into a rapidly modernizing country, which is fast becoming a major economic hub and a key player on the international economic landscape. This paper discusses a number...

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Country role models for development success: The Ghana case

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2009

The current paper, first, documents Ghana's 'success' story. Second, it identifies the strategy employed. Third, it … provides a brief history of why and how the strategy was adopted. Fourth, it provides some rationale for the success of the …

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Exploring economic and technological determinants of FinTech startups' success and growth in the United Arab Emirates

Zarrouk, Hajer; Ghak, Teheni el; Bakhouche, Abderazak - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 7 (2021) 1/50, pp. 1-24

FinTech success and survival is yet to be discussed. This paper investigates the underlying factors influencing the success of …, is vital to the success and survival of FinTechs as microbusinesses. However, financial barriers, the regulatory …, the business model dimensions “product/service offering” and “value proposition” tend to influence the success of these …

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Is Old Money Better than New? Duration and Monetary Regimes

Rose, Andrew K.; Mihov, Ilian - 2007

We compare the duration and performance of different monetary regimes, especially the contrast between countries those that fix exchange rates and those that target inflation. Inflation targeting is a more durable policy; no country has yet been forced to abandon an inflation target, while many...

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Initial Capital Constraints hinder Entrepreneurial Venture Performance

van Praag, Mirjam; de Wit, Gerrit; Bosma, Niels - 2003

This article investigates empirically whether and to what extent initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial performance once the venture has been started. Prior empirical research in this area could investigate this issue only indirectly by lack of data. The key contribution of this...

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On the Measurement of Success and Satisfaction

van den Brink, René; Steffen, Frank - 2012

The main purpose of the present paper is to disentangle the mix-up of the notions of success and satisfaction which is … relationship and measurement. We show that satisfaction contains success as one component, and that both coincide under the … provide two examples of sequential decision-making mechanisms in order to illustrate the difference between success and …

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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being

Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca; … - 2013

If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...

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