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Identifying the Linkages Between Major Mining Commodity Prices and China’s Economic Growth-Implications for Latin America
Yu, Yongzhen - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Major mining commodity prices are inherently volatile and cyclical. High levels of investment in China have been a key driver in the strong world demand for minerals and metals over the past decade. The urbanization and industrialization of China has been an important factor behind the increase...
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Monetary Policy Transmission in Ghana; Does the Interest Rate Channel Work?
Kovanen, Arto - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
This paper analyzes interest rate pass-through in Ghana. Time series and bank-specific data are utilized to highlight linkages between policy, wholesale market, and retail market interest rates. Our analysis shows that responses to changes in the policy interest rate are gradual in the wholesale...
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Growth Spillover Dynamics From Crisis to Recovery
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
Can positive growth shocks from the faster-growing countries in Europe spill over to the slower growing countries, providing useful tailwinds to their recovery process? This study investigates the potential relevance of growth spillovers in the context of the crisis and the recovery process....
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Poverty Status and IQ Gains from Revising the Dust Lead Hazard Standards: A Method for Evaluating Environmental Justice Implications?
LaPenta, Matthew - National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), … - 2010
the dust lead hazard standards for floors. For simplicity this paper only addresses populations as defined by poverty … defined according to alternative income categories. The method for estimating IQ gains from changes in dust lead levels … follows the approach described in EPA’s 2008 report, The Approach Used for Estimating Changes in Children’s IQ from Lead Dust …
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Do Fiscal Spillovers Matter?
Weber, Sebastian; Ivanova, Anna - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
The paper assesses the impact of fiscal spillovers on growth in the context of a coordinated exit from crisis management policies. We find that despite potentially sizeable domestic effects from consolidation, aggregate negative spillovers to other countries are likely to be contained in...
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The limits to growth and 'finite' mineral resources: re-visiting the assumptions and drinking from that half-capacity glass
Mudd, Gavin M. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 16 (2013) 3/4, pp. 204-220
The famous 1972 study 'Limits to growth' (LtG) created global controversy about its dire predictions for the 21st century - e.g., global population crash, rampant pollution and resource depletion. Amongst some of the most fervent critics was the mining industry, who argued that mineral-metals...
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Use of earthworms (Eisenia fetida) and vermicompost in the processing and safe management of hazardous solid and liquid wastes with high metal contents
Parra, Lue Meru Marco; Vazquez, Cristina; H, Luisa M. Macchi - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 10 (2010) 3/4, pp. 214-224
feasibility of vermicompost for the remediation of nickel (Ni), chromium (Cr), vanadium (V) and lead (Pb) in wastewater is …
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Levelling Marketing and Sales at an Enterprise
Solomyanyuk Nataliya M. - In: Business Inform (2013) 9, pp. 354-358
the "lead" notion, its types, classification and generalisation as one of the stages of building up the sales funnel. The …
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The Effects of Oil Price Shocks on real GDP in Iran
Larijani, Mohammad Taghi Khosravi; Karsalari, Abbas … - In: Hyperion Economic Journal 1 (2013) 3, pp. 18-29
In this paper, the asymmetric effects of oil price shocks on GDP have been investigated by co-integration analysis in Iran economy during the period 1960-2010. We used Hodrick-Prescott filtering to separate positive shocks from negative shocks. The results showed that in long run the negative...
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The influence of demand variability on the performance of a make-to-stock queue
Jemai, Z.; Karaesmen, F. - HAL - 2005
Variability, in general, has a deteriorating effect on the performance of stochastic inventory systems. In particular, previous results indicate that demand variability causes a performance degradation in terms of inventory related costs when production capacity is unlimited. In order to...
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