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A TALE OF TWO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS: TUNISIA AND MOROCCO
Friedman, Steven J - 2010
planning and implementation. The World Bank heralds both countries as prime examples of how market-friendly capitalist systems … Tunisia one of 5.1%. To put that in perspective, the World as-a-whole has grown at 2.0% per year and the United States at 1 … underlying causes of this consistently well above average growth in answering several key questions: What policies did the World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439124
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A munkamegosztás gazdaságszociológiai elmélete: Szociológiatörténeti szöveggyűjtemény
Szántó, Zoltán - 1990
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162138
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Stature, Nutrition, Health, and Economic Growth
Treme, Julianne - 2006
Historically, scholars of economic growth have focused almost exclusively on aggregate output or income as a way to assess the standard of living in a society. The purpose of this dissertation is to supplement and challenge this methodology by using evidence of the biological standard of living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431319
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The Road to Development is Paved With Good Institutions: The Political and Economic Implications of Financial Markets
Brown, Chelsea Denise - 2008
This research seeks to identify the factors that account for the variation in development levels across nations by focusing on the institutional components of development, especially the effects of financial market development on economic and political development. I argue that financial market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475007
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Die Lissabon-Strategie : Wachstum und Beschäftigung durch ländliche Entwicklung
2005
Wirtschaftswachstum, Arbeitsplätzen und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit auf den Weltmärkten. Ziel der Lissabon-Strategie, eines wichtigen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715228
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Uneven development and the terms of trade: A theoretical and empirical analysis
Erten, Bilge - 2010
Despite the voluminous literature on North-South macroeconomic interactions and the key role of terms of trade variations in growth transmission from one region to another, a significant research gap persists for two reasons. First, there has been very little empirical work on testing of the...
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Why China grew: Understanding the financial structure of late development
Hersh, Adam S - 2011
This dissertation explores how economic institutions governing finance and investment have contributed to growth in reform-era China. Economic and political reforms transformed Chinas prior centrally-planned economy. Although reforms incorporated elements of market institutions and private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467832
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Structural incentives to overborrow and overlend: The international debt crisis in perspective
Sader, Frank - 1995
The emergence of the international debt crisis in the 1980s is typically explained through exogenous shocks to the global economic system, first generating excess liquidity and then creating conditions which render previously attractive lending operations unprofitable. Thus, the international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467834
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From survival activities to industrial strategies: Local systems of inter-firm cooperation in Peru
Tavara, Jose Ignacio - 1993
This dissertation analyzes the conditions that explain the dynamism of socio-territorial systems of firms and examines how these systems can foster local industrialization and reduce urban poverty in Peru. The theoretical argument builds upon the concepts of external economies, industrial...
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Capitalist regulation and unequal integration: The case of Puerto Rico
Benson, Jaime Eduardo - 1993
This dissertation postulates that as effect of the model of development adopted by Puerto Rican authorities since the late forties, Puerto Rico became a "Regional Armature" of U.S. intensive accumulation and monopolist regulation over the 1950-1980 period. The asymmetrical insertion of the...
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