This paper studies the Balassa-Samuelson effects in two areas with strong differences in economic development, sixteen OECD countries and sixteen Latin American economies. The USA is taken as a benchmark. Applying recent panel cointegration and bootstrapping techniques that solve for...

1999 wurde die so genannte HIPC-Initiative zugunsten der ärmsten Länder (Highly Indebted Poor Countries), von der Weltbank und dem IWF 1996 ins Leben gerufen, erheblich erweitert. Die lnitiative zielt darauf ab, die Bekämpfung der Armut ins Zentrum der internationalen...

Neoliberal concept of serbian economic policy generated extremely poor results in all domains of economic and social trends, starting from low competitiveness on a world scale, high foreign indebtedness, deindustrialization of the country, all the way to the staggering unemployment. Enterpises'...