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Seibel, Hans Dieter - 2000

Two thirds of the Fund?s current projects have a rural finance component; about 21% of the Fund?s resources are dedicated to rural finance.2 Most of IFAD?s target group are small producers engaged in agric ultural and non-agricultural activities in areas of widely varying potential. Direct...

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Knowledge Flows, R&D Spillovers and Innovation

Peri, Giovanni - 2003

Knowledge flows within and across countries should be carriers of important learning spillovers. We use data on 1.5 million patents and 4.5 million citations to analyze knowledge flows across 147 subnational regions. We estimate that only 15% of average knowledge is learned outside the average...

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The Impact of ICT on Profit Allocation within Multinational Groups: Arm's Length Pricing or Formula Apportionment?

Spengel, Christoph; Schäfer, Anne - 2003

The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) within multinational groups leads to a rising number of intragroup cross-border transactions. At the same time, transactions and the organisational structures of affiliated groups become more and more specific and, thus, less...

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The Role of Transaction Costs and Risk Premia in the Determination of Climate Change Policy Responses

Stronzik, Marcus; Hunt, Alistair; Eckermann, Frauke; … - 2003

procedures, as recognised in the Marrakesh Accords. With regard to international emissions trading it will be of high importance …, international trading schemes of the type envisaged under the Kyoto Protocol are likely to have significant issues that have not …

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The Kyoto Protocol: A Review and Perspectives

Böhringer, Christoph - 2003

International concern about climate change has led to the Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in 1997, which contains legally … of the Protocol celebrate it as a breakthrough in international climate policy, opponents criticize that its approach …-based international mechanism that provides a valuable starting point for shaping efficient climate policies in the future. …

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Worker Remittances and Capital Flows to Developing Countries

Kuckulenz, Anja; Buch, Claudia M. - 2004

Worker remittances constitute an increasingly important mechanism for the transfer of resources from developed to developing countries, and remittances are the second-largest source, behind foreign direct investment, of external funding for developing countries. Yet, literature on worker...

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Explaining Reform Deadlocks

Heinemann, Friedrich - 2004

analysis, a reform event is quantified as a significant change of the Economic Freedom of the World indicator within a five …

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The Power Law and Dividend Yields

Lüders, Erik; Lüders-Amann, Inge; Schröder, Michael - 2004

Recent research suggests that the power law is one of the most universal laws in nature and it also seems to work quite fine in economics and finance. In this paper we show that the power law explains extremely well the relationship between the value of broad-based market indices and their...

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The Effect of ILO Minimum Age Conventions on Child Labour and School Attendance

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2004

Child labour has always been one of the core concerns of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). In this paper, we …

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Measuring Sustainable Development: The Use of Computable General Equilibrium Models

Böhringer, Christoph; Löschel, Andreas - 2004

This paper advocates computable general equilibrium models as a methodological tool that is particularly suitable for measuring the impacts of policy interference on the three dimensions of sustainable development, i.e. environmental quality, economic performance (gross efficiency) and equity....

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