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CONTRADICTIONS: FINANCE, GREED, AND LABOR UNEQUALLY PAID

Zarembka, Paul (contributor) - Department of Economics, State University of New …

This volume analyzes two decisive factors that have become embedded in the world spread of capitalism, a shift toward dominance of the financial sector, now entailing massive greed and calling into question whether the ‘rules’ of capitalism have been broken, and of global wage differentials...

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Assessing the value of future accessions to the WTO Agreement on Gouvenement Procurement (GPA): Some new data sources, provisional estimates, and an evaluative framework for indivi...

Anderson, Robert D.; Pelletier, Philippe; Osei-Lah, Kodjo; … - 2011

The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) is a plurilateral Agreement, meaning that it comprises only a subset … of the full Membership of the WTO. Currently, a number of WTO Members that are not Parties to the Agreement either are … actively seeking accession to it, have commitments to accede to the GPA in their respective WTO accession protocols or are, on …

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Assessing the value of future accessions to the WTO Agreement on Gouvenement Procurement (GPA): Some new data sources, provisional estimates, and an evaluative framework for indivi...

Anderson, Robert D.; Pelletier, Philippe; Osei-Lah, Kodjo; … - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2011

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Punjab's agricultural innovation challenge

Singh, Nirvikar - 2015

Fifty years ago, Punjab embarked on its famous Green Revolution, leading the rest of India in that innovation, and becoming the country's breadbasket. Now its economy and society are struggling by relative, and sometimes even absolute, measures. Using the original Green Revolution as a...

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Breaking the mold: Thoughts on Punjab's future economic development

Singh, Nirvikar - 2015

The economy of Punjab state in India offers an interesting case study. Punjab has been for decades - and remains - one of India's better-off states, and so it tends not be included in the primary focus of national programs meant to reduce poverty or spur economic development. But, Punjab's...

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Precision-Guided or Blunt? The Effects of US Economic Sanctions on Human Rights

Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2016

This study contributes to the literature that analyzes the consequences of economic sanctions for the target country’s human rights situation. We offer a political economy explanation for different types of human rights infringements or improvements in reaction to economic shocks caused by...

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Precision-Guided or Blunt? The Effects of US Economic Sanctions on Human Rights

Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2016

We use endogenous treatment-regression models to estimate the causal average treatment effect of US economic sanctions on four types of human rights. In contrast to previous studies, we find no support for adverse effects of sanctions on economic rights, political and civil rights, and basic...

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Precision-guided or blunt? The effects of US economic sanctions on human rights

Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2016

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Aristotle vs. Plato: The distributive origins of the Cold War

Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2018

Competing definitions of justice in Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics indicate the existence of two distinct economic systems with different normative priorities. The three-class society of the Platonic economy (guardians, auxiliaries, producers) gives rise to guardians who by virtue are...

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State capitalism and the role of the armed forces in Egypt: In the historical context, the current government and 2016-2023 IMF reforms

Abdallah, Kareem I.; Jiránková, Martina - In: World Economy and Policy (WEP) 3 (2024) 1, pp. 1-25

This article examines a specific form of state capitalism in Egypt under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, characterized by the central role of the military in economic affairs. Following the events of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, the Egyptian military not only secured its position as a key...

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