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Reconstruction and dynamic dependence analysis of global economic policy uncertainty
Liu, Yue; Zheng, Yuhang; Drakeford, Benjamin M - In: Quantitative finance and economics 3 (2019) 3, pp. 550-561
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Ukraine's economy two years on from the full-scale invasion
Parviainen, Sinikka - 2024
This brief assesses the state of the Ukrainian economy two years since Russia's full-scale invasion. After a devastating 2022, Ukraine's economy in 2023 proved surprisingly resilient, thanks in part to its foreign partners. Decelerating inflation and a managed exchange rate provided...
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Peace, prosperity and pro-growth entrepreneurship
Naudé, Wim - 2007
Support for entrepreneurship is widely seen as a mechanism to facilitate prosperity and peace in a growing number of post-conflict states. In this paper I critically evaluate this view. I argue that entrepreneurship is a ubiquitous quality in post-conflict states but not necessarily always for...
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Estimating the Direct Economic Damage of the Earthquake in Haiti
Cavallo, Eduardo; Powell, Andrew; Becerra, Oscar - 2010
This paper uses simple regression techniques to make an initial assessment of the monetary damages caused by the January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead and missing (i.e., the range of mortality that the...
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International aid to southern Europe in the early post-war period: The cases of Greece and Italy
Sotiropoulos, Dimitri A. - 2013
and had achieved industrial growth faster than Greece. Italy progressed quite rapidly from stabilization to reconstruction …, and then on to development, while Greece progressed with reconstruction, but did not achieve stabilization until after the …
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Insured loss inflation: How natural catastrophes affect reconstruction costs
Döhrmann, David; Gürtler, Marc; Hibbeln, Martin - 2013
In the aftermath of a natural catastrophe, there is increased demand for skilled reconstruction labor, which leads to … significant increases in reconstruction labor wages and hence insured losses. Such inflation effects are known as 'Demand Surge …
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Krieg, Frieden und Entwicklung - und die Lehren für Afghanistan
Brück, Tilman - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 4, pp. 11-18
Afghanistan, Somalia und die Demokratische Republik Kongo sind Beispiele für Entwicklungsländer, die unter den Folgen von Krieg, Armut und instabilen demokratischen Strukturen leiden. Diese Länder sehen sich in Sicherheitsfragen einer sehr schwierigen Herausforderung gegenüber und brauchen...
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Corporate Urbanization: Between the Future and Survival in Lebanon
Sharp, Deen Shariff - 2018
led the reconstruction of Beirut following the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1991), this thesis considers and explores the …
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Religious Affiliations in Austria at the Provincial Level: Estimates for Vorarlberg, 2001-2018
Goujon, Anne; Reiter, Claudia; Potančoková, Michaela - 2018
(and project into the future) the population of Austria and Vienna in 2016. The reconstruction shows that Vorarlberg …
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Global Reconstruction of Educational Attainment, 1950 to 2015: Methodology and Assessment
Speringer, Markus; Goujon, Anne; KC, Samir; … - 2019
levels of educational attainment for the period 1950-2015, by age and sex. The reconstruction uses four main input types for … data by age and sex to use as marker points in the reconstruction to increase output accuracy, (3) a set of age- and sex … we present the reconstruction principle. In the second one, we document the methodology and the data. The third section …
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