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In this paper we present a vision for the course Europe should take in its research and higher education policies in order to fully live up to the expectations of its citizens to provide a safe, comfortable, affluent and sustainable environment in this period of considerable financial restraint...
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spectacular investment and growth. It became one of the world's largest exporters and producers of paper in the world. We apply …, which are considered to be the world technological leaders in paper making. We address three questions: What is the …
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cited Malthus' quote with "consumption" and illustrate what this might imply for global world growth and Europe's place in … the world in 2025. In a fourth and final section, we then draw some initial policy conclusions. The nature of the …
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This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
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There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately − 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition − and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time...
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Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective well-being (SWB) in 13 developing countries,...
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We show that the credit crisis of OECD countries has a negative impact on the growth of the world economy according to … transitional shocks as predicted by the international organizations for the OECD and world growth for 2008 and 2009. Whereas growth …) show that China has an impact on Australia, which has an impact on the OECD, which in turn affects the rest of the world …
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absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to …
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