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1. An Analysis of the Trade Relationship of Sri Lanka with Singapore based on Trade Liberalization -- 2. Pattern of Carbon Dioxide Emission, Economic Growth and Energy Consumption in South-Asian Countries – An empirical Analysis -- 3. Natural Disasters and Income Inequality in South Asia: An...
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This volume offers fresh insights into economic development and growth in emerging economies. It includes contributions covering topics such as natural disasters and income inequalities, the environmental impact of economic growth, social preferences, information and market disorder under...
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Chapter 1 Financial Impact of Mega Disasters – Introduction -- Chapter 2 Japan’s Disaster Risk Financing – Framework … 4 Law and Policy Responses to Disaster-induced Financial Distress – The Tsunami Victims of 3/11 -- Chapter 5 How the … implications of mega-disaster risks as well as in seeking possible solutions with regard to governance, the allocation of financial …
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Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross-section but not over time) on a global level. We make a case for testing the Easterlin hypothesis at the country level where individual panel data allow exploiting important...
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On June 4-5, 2014, SUERF and Baffi Finlawmetrics jointly organised a Colloquium/Conference "Money, Regulation and Growth: Financing New Growth in Europe" at Bocconi University, Milan. The present SUERF Study includes a selection of papers based on the authors’ contributions to the Milan event....
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We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects, reduce the aid bureaucracy s effort, and change the power structure in the...
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SMEs are key to strengthening productivity, delivering more inclusive growth and adapting to the major transformations of our time. SMEs that grow have a considerable positive impact on employment creation, innovation, productivity growth and competitiveness. While the population of SMEs is very...
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We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...
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The slow recovery following the 2008/2009 recession has led to renewed interest in the question whether deep recessions lower real GDP permanently or whether we can expect a rebound to earlier trend levels. Using a recent quantile autoregression unit root test we check whether shocks to real GDP...
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