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Challenges and policy lessons for the growth-employment-poverty nexus in developing countries
Fields, Gary S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24
Of the world's 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars per person per day and another 1.7 billion lived on between $1.25 and $2.50 PPP dollars (Chen and Ravallion, 2012). The scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the...
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A comparative view on the tax performance of developing countries: Regional patterns, non-tax revenue and governance
Ivanyna, Maksym; von Haldenwang, Christian - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-32, pp. 1-44
Some countries fail to ensure that their citizens and businesses make an appropriate contribution to the financing of public tasks. But not all countries with a low tax ratio automatically fall into this category. This paper presents an approach to bridge the gap between probabilistic statements...
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Private Sector Participation in Water and Sanitation for Developing Countries
Rudolph, Karl-Ulrich; Harbach, Michael - In: CESifo DICE Report 05 (2007) 2, pp. 33-39
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Interpreting sheepskin effects of investment in schooling
Shabbir, Tayyeb; Ashraf, Javed - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 5 (2011) 2, pp. 202-215
In the last few years, significant amount of research has produced evidence in support of the signaling, credential or "sheepskin" effects in rates of return to schooling for studies of the developed as well as developing countries. An example of the former is the seminal empirical work by...
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Global wheat market dynamics: What is the role of the EU and the Black Sea wheat exporters?
Svanidze, Miranda; Đurić, Ivan - In: Agriculture 11 (2021) 8
leaders in grain production and trade, and replaced the USA and France as the most previous largest wheat exporting countries … markets compared to the USA. Furthermore, our results indicate that, despite being leaders in wheat export volumes, the Black … Sea wheat prices in Russia and Ukraine adjust to price changes in France, the USA, and Canada. Albeit unrealistic in the …
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Are EU non-reciprocal trade preferences passé?
McQueen, Matthew - In: Intereconomics 42 (2007) 4, pp. 205-218
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US food security and climate change: Agricultural futures
Takle, Eugene S.; Gustafson, David; Beachy, Roger; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-34, pp. 1-41
Agreement is developing among agricultural scientists on the emerging inability of agriculture to meet growing global food demands. Changes in trends of weather conditions projected by global climate models will challenge physiological limits of crops and exacerbate the global food challenge by...
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Public Sector Labour Relations in the United States: Austerity, Politics and Policy
Mareschal, Patrice M. - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 24 (2017) 4, pp. 450-471
politische Gegner, die Finanzkrise und Sparmaßnahmen. In den USA wurzelt der Angriff auf die Gewerkschaften des öffentlichen … Veränderungen Rechte des collective bargaining im öffentlichen Dienst auf staatlicher und lokaler Ebene aller 50 Staaten der USA …
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The causal relationship between remittances and poverty reduction in developing country: Using a non-stationary dynamic panel data
Gaaliche, Makram; Zayati, Montassar - In: Atlantic Review of Economics 1 (2014)
The aim of this article is to investigate the causal relationship between remittances and poverty reduction for 14 emerging and developing countries over the period 1980 - 2012. We proposed a cointegration analysis, using the method of non-stationary dynamic panel data. Our estimation results...
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Robust determinants of OECD FDI in developing countries: Insights from Bayesian model averaging
Antonakakis, Nikolaos; Tondl, Gabriele - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 3 (2015) 1, pp. 1-25
In this paper, we examine the determinants of outward FDI from four major OECD investors, namely, the US, Germany, France, and the Netherlands, to 129 developing countries classified under five regions over the period 1995-2008. Our goal is to distinguish whether the motivation for FDI differs...
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