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The Economics of Women's Rights
Tertilt, Michele; Doepke, Matthias; Montenbruck, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion has been closely intertwined with economic...
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Innovation, entrepreneurship and culture : the interaction between technology, progress and economic growth
Brown, Terrence E. (contributor); Ulijn, J. M. (contributor) - 2004
1. Innovation, entrepreneurship and culture, a matter of interaction between technology, progress and economic growth … (HKSAR) : an exploratory study of organization-specific critical success factors -- 3. Knowledge management, institutions and … of hope? -- 7. Entrepreneurship and the design process : the paradox of innovation in a routine design process -- 8 …
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Leadership and Economic Development Challenges in Post-Colonial Africa : Creating Inclusive Economic Growth
Osuigwe, Chukwuemeka Ezenwa - 2023
1. Background -- 2. The Africa Precolonial Social, Political and Economic Development -- 3. Post-Independence Politics in Africa -- 4. Technology and Deindustrialisation -- 5. Education and Labour -- 6. Economy and Agriculture -- 7. Infrastructure -- 8. Corruption and Under-development in Africa...
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Fiscal Policy Responsiveness, Persistence, and Discretion
Afonso, António - 2008
In this working paper, we decompose fiscal policy in three components: i) responsiveness, ii) persistence and iii) discretion. Using a sample of 132 countries, our results point out that fiscal policy tends to be more persistent than responding to output variations. We also found that while the...
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Refugees and internally displaced persons in development planning : No-one left behind?
OECD; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - 2023
This paper provides a factual baseline of the extent to which refugees and internally displaced persons are included in development planning, specifically in the national development plans and sector plans of low- and middle-income countries; in the international development co-operation...
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Human development in the era of globalization : essays in honor of Keith B. Griffin
Boyce, James K. (contributor); Griffin, Keith B. (contributor) - 2006
Honoring Keith Griffin's more than 40 years of fundamental contributions to the discipline of economics, the papers in this volume reflect his deep commitment to advancing the well-being of the world's poor majority and his unflinching willingness to question conventional wisdom as to how this...
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Economic action in theory and practice: anthropological investigations
Wood, Donald C. (ed.) - 2010
This volume contains 14 original chapters focusing on various aspects of economic organization and behaviour, mostly based on empirical fieldwork conducted by the authors themselves. It is a well-balanced collection of chapters on economic issues studied anthropologically, not only in its...
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Growth in transition
Hinterberger, Friedrich (contributor) - 2012 - First edition.
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Energy, Environment and Transitional Green Growth in China
Pang, Ruizhi (ed.); Xuejie, Bai (ed.);  … - Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference <2016, Tianjin> - 2018
Chapter 1: Editors’ Introduction -- Part I: Expert Overviews -- Chapter 2: Developing Meaningful Composite Environmental Indices with DEA -- Chapter 3: Modelling the Generation of Pollutants in Environmental Economics -- Chapter 4: Environmental Productivity Growth in Consumer Durables -- Part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013256174
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Technology and Industrial Transformation of China
Jiang, Yanqing; Gu, Jiewei - 2023
Technological Transformation -- Technology and Economic Growth -- Structure and Transformation -- Emerging Industries Under Globalization -- Industrial Transformation and Reconstruction -- China's High-Tech Industry and Global Industrial -- Challenges Faced by China's High-Tech Industry --...
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