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Gig Sector in the African Economy: Frameworks, Challenges and Prospects

Nwaobi, Godwin - 2024

Notably, Africa countries have enjoyed relatively strong economic growth for the past years (decade) mainly because of … impressive global demand for primary commodities. Unfortunately, Africa’s economic growth had failed to generate many good jobs …

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Basic needs and global models: resources, trade and distribution

Chichilnisky, Graciela - 1980

This paper analyses both the basic assumptions and the results of the better known and widely used global models - specifically, the UN world model, the RIO (Reshaping the International Order) model and the Bariloche model - in relation to basic needs and to North-South interdependence. The...

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Measures of Gross National Happiness

Veenhoven, Ruut - 2007

Happiness is rising on the political agenda and this calls for measures of how well nations perform in creating great happiness for a great number, analogous to measures of success in creating wealth, such as GDP. Happiness is defined as subjective enjoyment of one’s life as-a-whole and this...

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Zum politischen Machtwechsel in Griechenland. Die Parlamentswahlen von Januar 2015 aus einem kritischen Blickwinkel

Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - 2015

The Greek parliamentary elections in January .2015 led to a foreseeable change in government. The coalition government between the conservative Nea Dimokratia and of the socialist PASOK, become replaced. by a coalition government between the left wing coalition party SYRIZA and the extreme...

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Existence of Singularity Bifurcation in an Euler-Equations Model of the United States Economy: Grandmont was Right

Barnett, William A.; He, Susan - 2009

, from monotonic stability at one extreme to chaos at the other extreme, and with all forms of multiperiodic dynamics between …

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Business cycles and policy making in social insurance systems the case of Iran (1962-2004)

Nikopour, Hesam - 2005

Social security is not apart from other aspects of growth and development. It is a phenomenon completely coherent to … economic growth, social justice, human dignity and national prosperity. Generally national social security systems in most … growth and development of middle class, in addition to strengthening civil institutions, the protective function of system …

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Les sources des fluctuations marcoéconomiques au Cameroun

ODIA NDONGO, Yves Francis - 2007

This work aims at analysing the dynamics of macroeconomic fluctuations in Cameroon, using a semi-structural VAR to determine the sources of its macroeconomic fluctuations. The results obtained point out that the macroeconomic fluctuations in Cameroon, even though influenced by external shocks,...

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Trade Openness and the Cost of Sudden Stops: The Role of Financial Friction

Liu, Xuan - 2007

This paper studies the long-run welfare effect of the extra volatility of country spread due to the possibility of sudden stops. Both analytical and numerical results show that sudden stops have weaker output impact when the small open economy is more open to trade. However, welfare consequences...

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Trade Openness and the Cost of Sudden Stops: The Role of Financial Frictions

Liu, Xuan - 2007

This paper analyzes the trade policy when country spread becomes more volatile due to the possibility of sudden stops. Both analytical and numerical results show that sudden stops have weaker output impact when the small open economy is more open to trade; however, this does not imply the...

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How Macroeconomists Lost Control of Stabilization Policy: Towards Dark Ages

Jean-Bernard, Chatelain; Kirsten, Ralf - 2020

This paper is a study of the history of the transplant of mathematical tools using negative feedback for macroeconomic stabilization policy from 1948 to 1975 and the subsequent break of the use of control for stabilization policy which occurred from 1975 to 1993. New-classical macroeconomists...

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