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Oliveros, Luis - In: Observatorio de la Economía Latinoamericana (2008) 104

Existe una expresión muy criolla que dice “que el miedo es libre”, y tal vez esta sea la mejor forma de explicar el porque la totalidad de las bolsas a nivel mundial han estado experimentado fuertes caídas en sus cotizaciones en las últimas semanas. Como todos sabemos la noticia que...

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Will the natural gas supply meet the demand in North America?

Laherrere, Jean - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 19 (2003) 1, pp. 1-62

The goal of this paper is to deliver to the reader a large number of graphs in order to allow him/her to choose the ones that he/she considers important to form his/her own opinion. Graphs from data are more important than statements which are mainly interpretation and political, but the problem...

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Factors that influence farm women to advocate the adoption of environmentally benign agricultural production practices

Bridges, Tracy R.; Napier, Ted L. - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 2 (2003) 2, pp. 201-219

Few researchers have examined the roles and responsibilities of women in the farm enterprise or women's influence in the adoption of environmentally responsible farming practices; thus, women's role in the adoption of conservation practices has remained relatively unclear. A better understanding...

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American and European Agricultural Market Access: A Concern for The South?

Gouel, Christophe; Ramos, Maria Priscila - In: La Lettre du CEPII (2008) 277

For years, the agricultural policies of the United States and the European Union have been the object of internal debate at the same time as they have been at the heart of agricultural discussions in the Doha round of WTO negotiations. The CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) is being examined in...

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Emigration and Regime Stability: Explaining the Persistence of Cuban Socialism

Hoffmann, Bert - EconWPA - 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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Modeling the evolution of Gini coefficient for personal incomes in the USA between 1947 and 2005

Kitov, Ivan O. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2007

The evolution of Gini coefficient for personal incomes in the USA between 1947 and 2005 is analyzed and modeled. There … definition of income. Therefore the model Gini coefficient potentially better describes true behavior of inequality in the USA …

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Inflation, unemployment, labor force change in the USA

Kitov, Ivan O. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006

. A model is developed linking the measured inflation (consumer price index or GDP deflator), unemployment and change in … labor force. During the last twenty-five years, unemployment in the USA has been a lagged linear function of inflation. In … years before. One can predict the unemployment rate in the USA in the following two years within the accuracy of inflation …

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Modelling the average income dependence on work experience in the USA from 1967 to 2002

Kitov, Ivan O. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2005

The average and median income dependence on work experience and time is analyzed and modelled for the USA. The original … years is given for each age group considering potential per capita growth rate of 1.6%. The USA mean income dependence on …

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Modelling the overall personal income distribution in the USA from 1994 to 2002

Kitov, Ivan O. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2005

Numerical modelling of the personal income distribution (PID) in the USA from 1950 to 2003 is accomplished based on a … hierarchical income distribution structure in the USA. The PIDs normalized to the total population and corrected for the per capita …

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Messprobleme bei der Ermittlung des Wachstums der Arbeitsproduktivität – dargestellt anhand eines Vergleichs der Schweiz mit den USA

Hartwig, Jochen - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2005

The paper summarises and advances arguments made earlier by staff members of the Swiss Institute for Business Cycle Research in the current debate over the reasons for growth in Switzerland being weak. It is shown that the assessment of the speed of productivity growth crucially depends on how...

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