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Bolivien: Armut schweißt zusammen
Winter, Johannes - 2007
Die Verstaatlichungspolitik der sozialistischen Regierung spaltet die bolivianische Gesellschaft. Generell ist der Andenstaat ein Land voller Gegensätze: Das Nebeneinander unterschiedlicher Ethnien, starke ökonomische und regionale Disparitäten und die trotz Ressourcenreichtum verbreitete...
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Estimating the Opportunity Cost of Lithium Extraction in the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
Aguilar-Fernandez, Rodrigo - 2009
is the key factor. The Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia holds the largest source of lithium in the world; however, its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475425
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POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF NATIONALIZATION OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY IN LATIN AMERICA
Cabezas, Brian F. - 2007
past few years, Venezuela and Bolivia have announced plans to renationalizetheir oil and natural gas industry.The first … focusing specifically on four countries – Bolivia,Venezuela, Mexico and Nigeria. There are various components influencing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475604
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Regulation of the Electricity Industry in Bolivia: Its Impact on Access to the Poor, Prices and Quality
Bojanic, Antonio; Krakowski, Michael - 2003
This paper takes stock with the results of utility privatization in Bolivia. This paper deals with the process of … electricity industry has indeed lessen poverty levels in urban Bolivia by making this utility more accessible to larger segments … of the urban population. The same cannot be said, however, about rural Bolivia. The results show that coverage has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442375
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"International Production and the Periphery of the European Union"
Pournarakis, Mike. - 1999
The dramatic rise in international production in recent years stands out as the most decisive factor in the globalization of economic activity. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been growing very rapidly in the recent past while international trade ceased being the principle mechanism linking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463694
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“Advanced Welfare States in the International Economy: Vulnerabilities and Options”
Scharpf, Fritz W. - 1999
The capitalist welfare state achieved its full development within the nearly closed national economies of the early postwar decades. After the rampant protectionism following the Great Depression, and after the complete breakdown of world markets in World War II, the restoration of international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463696
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Global Euro: Testing Times for Transatlantic Ties? EUMA Papers, Vol. 4 No. 9, April 2007
Campanella, Miriam L. - 2007
Theories of international cooperation (TIC) predict that deeper economic integration raises the costs of policy conflicts and promotes coordination. As the US-EU economy makes up 60 per cent of the world GDP, policymakers on the two sides of the Atlantic are expected to assign highest priority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463705
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"The myth of Bretton Woods"
Andrews, David M. - 2003
[This paper is] a discussion of the transformation of the international monetary system in the period immediately following the adoption of the Bretton Woods agreements. The Bretton Woods architects intended to fashion an international monetary order that would provide maximum autonomy for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463720
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"Werner Report, EMS and EMU: Problems and Prospects of European Monetary Cooperation"
Kaelberer, Matthias. - 1993
This paper seeks to explain the variance between success and failure of attempts to achieve monetary cooperation and integration in Western Europe. In its first two sections the paper develops six assumptions about international monetary behavior of states and the conditions for monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463727
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“Advanced Welfare States in the International Economy: Vulnerabilities and Options”
Scharpf, Fritz W. - 1999
The capitalist welfare state achieved its full development within the nearly closed national economies of the early postwar decades. After the rampant protectionism following the Great Depression, and after the complete breakdown of world markets in World War II, the restoration of international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463738