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This paper seeks to critically examine recent debates on global governance, albeit from a human development perspective. In doing so it identifies and describes two important principles for building institutions for the advancing of human development: what may be termed the imperative of...
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Our rigorous quantitative results, based on the first systematic use of the Muslim community data contained in the "European Social Survey" (ESS), compatible with much of the rest of current European political economic thinking regarding the future alternatives for the European Union, and...
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inequality, the figure decline dramatically starting from the year 2000. In this setting, Bolivia has been one of the poorest … research applies a method of inequality decomposition– as developed by (Fields, 2003)-, this technique consists on regressing … other variables) has contributed on the reduction of inequality in Bolivia. Moreover, the sources of inequality are mainly …
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. This paper stresses the importance of adopting a multi-angle approach to fully understand income inequality in China. We …Economic reforms have brought about spectacular growth and vast improvements of people’s living standards in China … since 1978. In the meantime, unbalanced regional growth and income inequality have become two important concerns of future …
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concerns over the impact of globalization on the already rising inter-region income inequality in China. This paper discusses …China’s recent accession to the WTO is expected to accelerate its integration into the world economy, which aggravates … China’s globalization process and estimates an income generating function, incorporating trade and FDI variables. It then …
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capability in China. It is found that at the regional level, China's inequality in innovation capability increased from 1995 to … 2004. At the provincial level, the inequality decreased from 1995 to 2000, but increased from 2000 to 2004. Location … inequality in innovation capability. Unbalanced development in high-tech parks exerts a growing explanatory power in driving …
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40 separate industries across 31 regions (or 8 regional blocks) of China for the period 2002–07. Labour movement between … regions within China is considered. It is found that the direct contribution of WTO membership is small to the whole economy …
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industries across 31 regions (and 8 regional blocks) of China during the period 2002 2007.Taking into account labour movement … between regions within China, the direct contribution of WTO membership to overall economic growth and development is … for income inequality is also anticipated. …
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This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in … double, interpersonal inequality would decline by 40-50% and inter-provincial inequality would vanish. In all years …
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industries across 31 regions (and 8 regional blocks) of China during the period 2002–2007. Taking into account labour movement … between regions within China, the direct contribution of WTO membership to overall economic growth and development is … for income inequality is also anticipated. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207082