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The present report gathers 21 contributions received from national Economic and Social Councils (ESCs) and similar institutions, civil society organisations and members of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in relation to their implications and activities regarding the 2012...
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Previous research suggests that minorities are not faring well in China’s transition—both income and occupational … employ data from the three most recent population censuses of China to explore differences in the labor force participation … rates of a number of China’s important ethnic groups. We estimate urban labor force participation rates using probit …
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The world has entered a global recession that is causing widespread business contraction, increases in unemployment, and shrinking government revenues. The process for coping with the crisis by countries across the globe has been manifest in four basic phases. The first has been intervention to...
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The European Network of Economic Policy Research Institutes (ENEPRI) brings together twenty-four leading national economic policy research institutes from most of the EU-27 countries. The goals of the network are to foster the international diffusion of existing research, co-ordinate research...
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Das Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel (IfW) ist eines der großen Zentren weltwirtschaftlicher Forschung, wirtschaftspolitischer Beratung, ökonomischer Ausbildung und wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Dokumentation. Das Institut sieht seine Hauptaufgabe in der Erforschung...
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In the early 1990s, the United States began to run a significant trade deficit with China due to the dual forces of … greater trade liberalization and China’s transition from a command economy towards a market economy. Proponents of free trade … with China argue that greater integration will lead to a convergence of interests that reaches beyond economics. Despite …
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We examine the determinants of performance of 68 Indian state-owned enterprises in the manufacturing sector for a five-year period: 1987 to 1991. Relative performance is determined using data envelopment analysis, with variations in performance patterns subsequently explained using regression...
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1. Australia has performed quite well over the last two decades in terms of real GDP per head; the GDP gains have not been fully reflected in other economic welfare measures (section 1). 2. Most economic reforms have important distributional effects, and these are often prolonged and enduring....
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China’s industrial sector: state enterprises, collective enterprises, and private enterprises. Market-oriented economic …
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