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The efficiency of early warning indicators for financial crises

Rabe, Jens Michael - 2000

The banking and currency crises of the last two decades inflictedsubstantial financial, economic, and social damage on thecountries in which they originated. In this work, the efficiencyof early warning indicators for these disastrous economic eventsis evaluated. An analysis of the traditional...

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Three Essays on Groundwater and Tenancy Contracts in Rural Economies

Steinmetz, Anne Margret - 2003

The dissertation in hand deals with the phenomenon of informal markets for water and land in the agricultural sector of developing countries with a special emphasis on India.In the first part, I present data from a field study on informal groundwater markets conducted by myself in Tamil Nadu,...

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Globalization and child labor

Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2010

Dieses Buch untersucht die Auswirkungen von Globalisierung auf Kinderarbeit sowohl aus theoretischer als auch aus empirischer Perspektive, wobei der hauptsächliche Fokus auf empirischer Evidenz liegt. Das Buch präsentiert zuerst deskriptive Evidenz über die Formen und Verbreitung von...

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Regional integration of equity markets in Sub-Saharan Africa

Piesse J.; Hearn B. - 2005

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Changing patterns of South African income distribution: Towards time series estimates of distribution and poverty

van der Berg S.; Louw M. - 2004

This paper attempts to provide alternative estimates of income distribution in South Africa, utilizing data that allow us to evaluate income, distribution across time, reducing dependence on the vagaries associated with individual surveys. In particular, we attempt to arrive at racial...

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Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics

Setel, P. W.; Sankoh, O.; Rao, C. P. V.; Velkoff, V. A.; … - 2005

Registration of births, recording deaths by age, sex and cause, and calculating mortality levels and differentials are fundamental to evidence-based health policy, monitoring and evaluation. Yet few of the countries with the greatest need for these data have functioning systems to produce them...

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Internationale Konjunkturverbunde/International Business Cycles

Graff, Michael - 2006

interpreted as the world business cycle. The further components suggest the existence of a Scandinavian-Anglo-Saxon business cycle …

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Interorganizational dynamics in collaboration in university-industry research projects: context, politics and social construction

Zanko, Michael; Badham, Richard; Garrety, Karin H - 2005

University-industry partnerships (UIPs) are widely viewed as essential in leveraging research capability and economic performance in organizations and the nation as a whole. In Australia, as in many other countries, the national government commits significant funds to such ‘strategic’...

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The development of agrarian foreign trade in rabbit meat

Smutka, Luboš; Rosochatecká, Eva - 2012

The paper analyses the production development and trade in rabbit meat in the Czech Republic, in the world and in … total volume of world meat production has been oscillating between 0,5–0,7%. The first part of the paper analyses the main … the world market. The analysis of competitiveness is made through the calculation of RCA index (the Balassa (1965) Index …

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