Showing 101,081 - 101,090 of 102,075
The conventional wisdom is (i) that fiscal austerity was the main culprit for the recessions experienced by many countries, especially in Europe, since 2010 and (ii) that this round of fiscal consolidation was much more costly than past ones. The contribution of this paper is a clarification of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145403
How does a shifting economic power balance between the United States and China affect the strategic choices of Latin American governments? During the last several decades, Latin America has often relied on a Western development model that aimed to attract global market capital. After excessive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011148633
How does a shifting economic power balance between the United States and China affect the strategic choices of Latin American governments? During the last several decades, Latin America has often relied on a Western development model that aimed to attract global market capital. After excessive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011148639
How does a shifting economic power balance between the United States and China affect the strategic choices of Latin American governments? During the last several decades, Latin America has often relied on a Western development model that aimed to attract global market capital. After excessive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011148641
We study distribution and investment in content quality in a two-sided media market. We show that a content provider …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011148677
Judging by the provisions of its investment code and the apparent stability of the macro-economy, Ethiopia seems to … offer a favourable investment climate for the private sector. However, Ethiopian manufacturing has experienced a declining … rate of investment since the mid 1990s. Like other Sub-Saharan African countries, more than half of manufacturing firms in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011149222
We examine the effects of natural disasters on income and investment in China. Using macroeconomic province-level data … mortality and morbidity, disasters’ economic damages, government investment and regional economic activity, and infrastructure … development. The Chinese government’s aggressive investment in post-disaster reconstruction is discussed, and the implications of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011151462
The recent surge in land-based investments in the global South has been seen as both an opportunity for rural economic development and as a trend that poses significant social and environmental risks. This study sheds light on this debate through a look at the tobacco industry in Malawi. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011152332
for four African countries - the Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe - shows that in the early 1990s investment in … ask how skills have impacted on manufacturing investment and exports in the 1990s. Two dimensions of skills are defined … efficiency with which the firm operates. The latter is shown to be a significant determinant of both investment and exports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011152509
investment is critical, since it helps investors to know the maximum benefits to the economy coupled with the greatest influences … relationship between investment and employment in cooperative enterprises. Also, the results show that there is a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011152585