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Global skill partnerships: A proposal for technical training in a mobile world

Clemens, Michael A. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-18

Skilled workers emigrate from developing countries in rising numbers, raising fears of a drain on the human and financial resources of the countries they leave. This paper critiques existing policy proposals to address the development effects of skilled migration. It then proposes a new kind of...

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Going Global: Differential Accumulation and the Great U-turn in South Africa and Israel

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 33 (2001) 1, pp. 21-55

This paper offers a new theoretical approach for comparing the current political-economic U-turns in South Africa and Israel. Our principal focus is on a revised notion of capital, emphasizing the central role of differential accumulation by dominant capital groups. We further distinguish...

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From War Profits to Peace Dividends: The New Political Economy of Israel

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: Capital & Class (1996) 60, pp. 61-94

Since the late 1980s, Israel has been undergoing a profound transformation, characterized by reconciliation with its Arab neighbours and attempts to reintegrate into the regional economy, a transition from a militarized economy to open markets, and a decline of the collectivist ethos in favour...

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Differential Accumulation: Toward a New Political Economy of Capital

Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Review of International Political Economy 5 (1998) 2, pp. 169-217

Existing theories of capital, neo-classical as well as Marxist, are anchored in the material sphere of production and consumption. This article offers a new analytical framework for capital as a crystallization of power. The relative nature of power requires accumulation to be measured in...

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Military Spending and Differential Accumulation: A New Approach to the Political Economy of Armament – The Case of Israel

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 28 (1996) 1, pp. 51-95

This paper offers a new approach to the political economy of armament, focusing on the relationship between military spending and differential accumulation in mature capitalist economies. Applied to the “model” case of Israel, our analysis suggests that the militarization of Israel’s...

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Research in Small-Firm Entrepreneurial Finance: A Note on Developing a Paradigm

Petty, J. William - In: Journal of Small Business Finance 1 (1991) 1, pp. 89-90

There is an increased interest in small companies and entrepreneurship among academicians and policy makers. The melting of the cold war and the collapse of the socialist economies of the Soviet bloc, in combination with the interest of the affected countries in imitating some form of...

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On the Theory of Finance for Privately Held Firms

Ang, James S. - In: Journal of Small Business Finance 1 (1992) 3, pp. 185-203

This paper is a first attempt at differentiating the problems of finance of the privately held small businesses from …

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What Does Finance Have to Say to the Entrepreneur?

Petty, J. William; Bygrave, William D. - In: Journal of Small Business Finance 2 (1993) 2, pp. 125-137

There has developed within the past decade an increased interest among academicians and policy makers in the small companies and entrepreneurs of the world. Domestically, small business is viewed by the “true believers” as the engine that drives the machinery, citing innovation and job...

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Research and Teaching in Small Business Finance: A Note on Resources

McMahon, Richard G. P. - In: Journal of Small Business Finance 2 (1993) 2, pp. 183-185

In an emerging field of scholarship such as Small Business Finance, there is often a chicken-and-egg problem at the … and teaching resources developed at or through the School of Accounting, Finance, and Management at The Flinders …

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The Provision of Finance to Small Businesses: Does the Banking Relationship Constrain Performance

Ennew, Christine T.; Binks, Martin R. - In: Journal of Small Business Finance 4 (1995) 1, pp. 57-73

unconstrained in both product and factor markets, finance has been widely identified as a potential constraint on entrepreneurial … activity due to either debt or equity gaps. However, in terms of externally supplied finance, it is arguably the availability … with the provision of debt finance, the nature of the relationship between bank and entrepreneur can be of considerable …

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