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Desarrollo socioeconómico y pobreza en América Latina y el Caribe

Mora-Alfaro, Jorge - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The political and economical reforms applied in Latina American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, since the 80 decade, in the structural adjustment context, produced a break in relation to the development model followed for the majority of these nations, with evident differences between them, in...

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China-Africa’s Emerging Economic Links: A review under the Core-Periphery perspective

Maswana, Jean-Claude - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This essay has explored the validity of Marxist dependency theories in the context of the emerging China-Africa trade … patterns, this discussion has shown that the China-Africa economic links represent a distinct south-south dialectic occurring … the idea that China’s involvement in Africa is of a conventional center-periphery type; which suggests the existence of …

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A behavioral approach to the political and economic inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Boettke, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

book explains well what this volume is all about--why economics can’t explain the modern world. An important modifier would … be – modern economics can’t explain the modern world – because much of what McCloskey argues is the resurrection of an … Friedman. Fundamentally, she reasserts the power of ideas to shape the world. McCloskey’s narrative is simple and compelling …

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The Effects of Isolation on the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

Gorgulu, Mehmet Emre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The economic development of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus remains to be volatile mainly due to the isolation of the de facto Turkish Cypriot state. While on one hand, high costs of energy in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus associated with the isolation, remains as a huge...

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Declining inequality in Bolivia: How and Why

Fortun Vargas, Jonathan M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Latin America has often been depicted as one of the most unequal regions in the world. However, after the rising of …

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Rising Food Prices and Their Implications for Education in Africa

Abd El Hamid, Hoda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Using cross sectional data of Sub-Saharan African countries from 2006-2009, this paper studies the relationship between food crisis, and child education outcomes. Although the study finds a significant and negative direct impact of food crisis on primary completion rates in the region, the same...

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Libertad y desempeño económico

Mejía Cubillos, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

results of the world and the inability of a central entity to control them. …

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Coal Mining, Economic Development, and the Natural Resource Curse

Betz, Mike; Farren, Michael; Lobao, Linda; Partridge, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Coal mining has a long legacy of providing needed jobs in isolated communities but it is also associated with places that suffer from high poverty and weaker long-term economic growth. Yet, the industry has greatly changed in recent decades. Regulations, first on air, have altered the geography...

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The Diffusion of Development: Along Genetic or Geographic Lines?

Campbell, Douglas L.; Pyun, Ju Hyun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

geography including distance from the equator and a dummy for sub-Saharan Africa. …

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“Economic freedom” and economic growth: questioning the claim that freer markets make societies more prosperous

Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

A conventional reading of economic history implies that free market reforms rescued the world’s economies from …

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