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Emigration and Regime Stability: Explaining the Persistence of Cuban Socialism
Hoffmann, Bert - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2005
The ‘Cuban safety-valve theory’ explains sustained survival of Cuban socialism in part through the high levels of emigration, following Hirschman’s model of ‘exit’ undermining ‘voice’. The article argues that this remains insufficient in two important ways. Taking a closer look at...
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Industry Origins of the American Productivity Resurgence
Jorgenson, Dale; Ho, Mun; Samuels, Jon; Stiroh, Kevin - In: Economic Systems Research 19 (2007) 3, pp. 229-252
This paper analyzes the industry origins of the American growth resurgence by examining output, input, and productivity growth of 85 component industries for the period 1960 to 2005. We use this detailed industry data to examine trends in particular industry groups such as those that produce...
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Ethnic Disparities in Health: The Public’s Role in Working for Equality
Satcher, David - eSocialSciences - 2007
The overarching goals should be to increase the quality of life and years of healthy life for all Americans and to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities. This has been an ambitious undertaking, but there has been considerable progress. . African Americans and other racial and ethnic...
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Contemporary International and Domestic Banking Developments and the Emerging Challenges
V, Leeladhar - eSocialSciences - 2008
A broad overview, from the Indian perspective, of the factors underlying the credit market crisis in the west, the implications of the crisis for the financial sector, lessons learnt from it, the various suggestions made at different fora for pre-empting the recurrence of such events, the Indian...
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Free Trade Agreement : A Campaign of Deception
Lee, Nicole - eSocialSciences - 2008
The paper analyzes the impact of Colombia,s free trade with USA on the economies of US and Colombia. It also discuses … the relationship between USA and Colombia. …
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Spillovers, Linkages and Technical Change
Wolff, Edward - In: Economic Systems Research 9 (1997) 1, pp. 9-23
Using US input-output data for the period 1958-87, I find strong evidence that industry total factor productivity (TFP) growth is significantly related to the TFP performance of the supplying sectors, with an elasticity of almost 60%. R&D intensity is also found to be a significant determinant...
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Social capital, economic growth and regional development
Iyer, Sriya; Kitson, Michael; Toh, Bernard - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 8, pp. 1015-1040
 000 individuals living in 40 communities, grouped into nine regions, in the USA. These data show remarkable diversity of social …
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Urban-Rural Migration in the USA: An Analysis of Residential Satisfaction
Barcus, Holly - In: Regional Studies 38 (2004) 6, pp. 643-657
Barcus H. R. (2004) Urban-rural migration in the USA: an analysis of residential satisfaction, Regional Studies38, 643 …-657. The past 30 years have witnessed three major shifts in the direction of migration flows in the USA. During the 1970s and … 1991 American Housing Survey. Data for the USA are assessed using descriptive statistics and multinomial logit models …
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Approches géostrategique et économique de la menace : réponses américaines (Geostrategic and economic approaches of the threat : american answers )
Bailly, Michel A. - Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et … - 2002
En 2001, le Department of Defense (DoD) des Etats-Unis a décidé de développer un « système de systèmes », désigné sous le nom de Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS)1 destiné à protéger les États-Unis contre une attaque limitée de missiles balistiques provenant d’États...
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Managing Capital Flows: The Case of India
Shah, Ajay; Patnaik, Ila - eSocialSciences - 2008
From the early 1990s, India embarked on easing capital controls. Liberalization emphasised openness towards equity flows, both FDI and portfolio flows. In particular, there are few barriers in the face of portfolio equity flows. In recent years, a massive increase in the value of foreign...
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