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Negotiating the Terms of A New Social Contract: Private Companies, Civil Society and the State in India
Krichewsky, Damien - eSocialSciences - 2010
is offered. With the rapid growth and modernization of the country as the backdrop, this paper points towards a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480382
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Obsolescence and Modernization in the Growth Process
BOUCEKKINE, Raouf; RIO, Fernando DEL; LICANDRO, Omar - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2002
of capital, reducing the research effort; and (ii) the modernization of capital through investment raises the incentives …, we conclude that the positive effect of modernization generally more than compensate the negative effect of obsolescence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985095
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Energy consumption, technological progress and economic policy
Théophile, AZOMAHOU; Raouf, BOUCEKKINE; Phu, NUYEN VAN - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2003
We first provide an empirical sstudy of the energy-saving technological progress on the ENERDATA database. Energy intensity is shown to decrease over the period 1971-1999 in OECD countries, indicating a significant energy-saving technical progress trend. We also show via semiparametric partially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985326
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Obsolescence and modernization in the growth process
BOUCEKKINE, Raouf; del RIO, Fernando; LICANDRO, Omar - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2002
of capital, reducing the research effort; and (ii) the modernization of capital through investment raises the incentives …, we conclude that the positive effect of modernization generally more than compensate the negative effect of obsolescence. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005065321
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La democracia en China: ¿Libro blanco o Libro en blanco?
Rios, Xulio - Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales (CAEI)
A propósito de la evolución del régimen político vigente en la República Popular China (RPCh), generalmente, se arbitran tres grandes posibilidades. La primera, contempla una evolución a la taiwanesa, es decir, confía en que la consolidación del proceso de crecimiento económico del...
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Forming Life Satisfaction among Different Social Groups during the Modernization of China
Cheung, Chau-Kiu; Leung, Kwan-Kwok - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 5 (2004) 1, pp. 23-56
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Persistência do tradicional: o processo de modernização da agroindústria canavieira do Brasil e a sobrevivência de formas produtivas não-capitalistas
Godoy, Marcelo Magalhães - Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional … - 2007
the progressive establishment of an essentially new reality. Those changes were grounded on technological modernization …
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Dilemmas of Conservative Modernization Economic Policy in Interwar Poland
Morawski, Wojciech - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2007 (2007) 7, pp. 288-303
modernization should not be faster than that of assimilation. Another feature of Polish economic policy was promoting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036343
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MODERNIZATION OF TAX ADMINISTRATION IN LOW INCOME COUNTRIES: THE CASE OF NEPAL
Khadka, Rup; Jenkins, Glenn - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2000
Tax administrations in many low-income countries are weak, corrupt, and nontransparent. This inefficiency reflects both the mix of taxes and the faulty design in their structure and in their operational systems. The tax administration is also affected by policies relating to the salary, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005688166
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Modernisierung und Demokratisierung: Das Erklärungspotenzial neuer differenzierungstheoretischer Ansätze am Fallbeispiel Südkoreas
Kern, Thomas - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2006
The article deals with the social mechanism that connects modernization with democratization. Starting from a … antagonisms” inside the social subsystems than by class conflicts: The more modernization progresses, the stronger becomes the … short overview over the latest developments in the debate on modernization and democratization. In the second step, the …
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