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Trade in Financial Services: India's Opportunities and Constraints

Chanda, Rupa - eSocialSciences - 2010

resulting commitments with specific reference to the commitments made by India in this sector, and the latest developments in … in financial services to obtain more liberal commitments in other areas and modes that are of export interest to India …

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Coordination and Culture

Carvalho, Jean-Paul - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

Culture constrains individual choice by making certain behaviour taboo. We propose an evolutionary model in which members of different groups attempt to coordinate over time. We show that cultural constraints can lead to a permanent break down in coordination between groups, even when...

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Economic and financial analysis of scaling up child, newborn and maternal health

Mills, Anne; Greco, Giulia; Jackson, Tim Powell; Borghi, Jo - eSocialSciences - 2010

usual and public commitments). We estimated the financing gap by comparing the share of projected total health expenditure …

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The Efficiency of Voluntary Pollution Abatement when Countries can Commit

Boadway, Robin; Song, Zhen; Tremblay, Jean-François - Center for Research on Contemporary Economic Systems, … - 2010

abatement commitments, and the marginal benefits of emissions may be equalized across countries even without quota trading. …

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Assessing China's energy conservation and carbon intensity: how will the future differ from the past?

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010

-saving goal in 2010, its proposed carbon intensity target in 2020 and whatever climate commitments beyond 2020 that China may take. …

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Assessing China's carbon intensity pledge for 2020: Stringency and credibility issues and their implications

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010

Just prior to the Copenhagen climate summit, China pledged to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45% by 2020 relative to its 2005 levels to help to reach an international climate change agreement at Copenhagen or beyond. This raises the issue of whether such a pledge is ambitious or just represents...

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Endowments, power, and democracy: Political economy of multilateral commitments on trade in services

Roy, Martin - 2010

cooperation. This paper seeks to account for countries' varying levels of market access commitments under the multilateral General … associated with more commitments. The empirical analysis supports these propositions, and also suggests that relative size, as … well as regulatory capacity, are positively linked to GATS commitments. …

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Why is there no revolution in North-Korea? The political economy of revolution revisited

Apolte, Thomas - 2010

In this paper the political economy of revolutions is revisited, as it has been developed and applied in a number of publications by Acemoglu and Robinson. We criticize the fact that these authors abstract from collective-action problems and focus on inequality of income or wealth instead. In...

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Assessing China’s Carbon Intensity Pledge for 2020: Stringency and Credibility Issues and their Implications

Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

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Considerations on The Convergence of Romania to The European Union in The Banking Field

AVRAM, Costin Daniel; AVRAM, Veronel - In: Timisoara Journal of Economics 3 (2010) 3(11), pp. 183-188

According to commitments made by Romania (and by NBR) in the negotiating process to Chapter 11 - Economic and Monetary …

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