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Highlights: - The European Union growth agenda has become even more pressing because growth is needed to support public and private sector deleveraging, reduce the fragility of the banking sector, counter the falling behind of southern European countries and prove that Europe is still a...
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New IEA paper demonstrates that Swedish success is a result of the free market and not the welfare stateExecutive Summary:Sweden did not become wealthy through social democracy, big government and a large welfare state. It developed economically by adopting free-market policies in the late 19th...
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In Lateinamerika hat sich auf breiter Front eine wirtschaftspolitische Umkehr vollzogen. Immer mehr Länder haben gesamtwirtschaftliche Stabilisierungsmaßnahmen ergriffen und sich gegenüber den internationalen Güter- und Kapitalmärkten geöffnet. Zeitpunkt und Umfang der Reformen variieren...
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Die griechischen Wahlen haben den Blick wieder auf die Südländer der Europäischen Währungsunion gelenkt. Wenn verkrustete Strukturen wichtige Krisenursachen waren, muss die Therapie dort ansetzen. Der Autor gibt einen Überblick über die Reformen in den Südländern in Hinblick auf...
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Der Beitrag analysiert die Argentinien-Krise, vergleicht die makroökonomische Entwicklung von Argentinien, Brasilien, Chile und Mexiko seit der Mexiko-Krise und entwickelt Indikatoren zur Beurteilung der Entwicklungschancen dieser Länder. Für Argentinien wie für Brasilien, Chile und Mexiko...
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Japan's "two lost decades" perhaps represent an extreme example of a weak recovery from a financial crisis, and are now …
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The almost continuous stagnation of the Japanese economy for the past two decades has had an adverse impact on Japanese households from at least three perspectives: A decline in the standard of living, an increase in risks and uncertainties relating to livelihood, employment, old age, etc., and...
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The Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011 was the biggest earthquake recorded in Japanese seismic history, and …-generated electric power has largely been cut off since then. Production supply chains were significantly disrupted, not only in Japan …, but all over Asia. The disaster also highlighted Japan's many other structural challenges besides reconstruction needs …
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This paper sets out to explain the factors behind Ireland's exceptional period of economic growth from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s. It suggests that an unbending commitment to economic openness and an on-going effort to establish quality domestic institutions were the main drivers of the...
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This paper documents that a process of industrial restructuring has been transforming the developed economies, where large corporations are accounting for less economic activity and small firms are accounting for a greater share of economic activity. Not all countries, however, are experiencing...
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