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This paper examines the process of convergence in relative GDP per capita across EU countries and Turkey and investigates the effects of openness, economic activity and human capital investment in the growth process. The presence of convergence was found to be higher for EU countries. We apply...
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Largely based on an empirical study of Egypt‟s car industry, the paper criticises traditional approaches to and models of technology transfer in the new age of openness to trade and FDI and in the light of Egyptian experience. It is argued that these ideas and models, such as technological...
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This paper investigates banking system instability vis-à-vis the day-to-day interbank market and monetary policy effectiveness in the Dominican Republic. The analysis reveals a negative relationship among excess banking system reserves and the interbank interest rate, and shows that in crisis...
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This paper studies the effect of the Head Start program on children's achievements in reading and math tests during their first 4 years of schooling after completing the program. Using nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS), I examine reading and math...
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Spanish internal migration has long been resistant to traditional economic explanations. However this paper examines the data from 1999-2006 after considerable changes in the Spanish economy. Moreover it examines migration at the disaggregated level of Spanish provinces rather than regions, the...
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Multinational corporations [MNCs] usually engage in foreign direct investment [FDI] to take cost advantages of producing abroad to negate the need for licensing or subsidiary production. At the macro level, FDI accounts for significant proportions of MNCs total investment and has discernible...
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This paper examines the role of wage relativities and unemployment levels as major potential economic causes of internal migration between the separate regions of Romania in the period 1995 - 2005. The different inter-regional migration routes are treated as cross-section units in a panel data...
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This paper examines the economics of outsourcing and its impact on home and host countries. It argues that some of the explanations for this phenomenon, particularly by management science are too simplistic. It is also shown how (with a brief study of the Mexican case) 'cheap labour' which is...
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The Dominican Republic and Haiti share one island but display different economic and environmental paths. Policy decisions in the Dominican Republic aimed at protecting environmental resources help in explaining its better economic and environmental performance as compared to Haiti. The paper...
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The paper examines the impacts of ambiguity and ambiguity attitudes on macro-economic "Big Push" model. By formally modelling ambiguity, optimism and pessimism in economic industrialization, we show the results with Keynesian flavour: sufficient optimism can create the "Big Push" to help the...
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