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The Portuguese Economy in the Irish Mirror, 1960–2004

Lains, Pedro - In: Open Economies Review 19 (2008) 5, pp. 667-683

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Political Involvement and Apathy in Europe 1973 - 1998

Deth, Jan van; Elff, Martin - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2000

Many studies have underlined the existence of clear and persistent differences in the levels of political interest among European citizens. In this report these differences and developments in political involvement and political apathy are described and analysed, and conventional explanations in...

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Crescimento Econ\363mico no P\363s-guerra: os Casos de Espanha, Portugal e Irlanda

Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2002

The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...

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Independent Institutions Protecting Children's Rights

Lansdown, Gerison - 2001

This Digest focuses on independent human rights institutions for children, and the urgent need to create such institutions in every country in the world to protect, promote, and monitor children's rights. Children are among the most vulnerable group in any society, with no vote, no access to the...

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The dynamics of agglomeration : evidence from Ireland and Portugal

BARRIOS, Salvador; BERTINELLI, Luisito; STROBL, Eric; … - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2004

This paper analyses and compares the dynamics of agglomeration in Portuguese and Irish manufacturing industries between 1985 and 1998 implementing Dumais, Ellison and Glaeser (2002) methodology. Using comparable and exhaustive micro-level data sets, we find that s industries tend to be subject...

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Agglomeration economies and the location of industries: a comparison of three small European countries

BARRIOS, Salvador; BERTINELLI, Luisito; STROBL, Eric; … - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2003

, and Portugal using comparable, exhaustive micro-level data sets.We find some similarities between Portugal and Belguim …

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The Iberian Tigers versus The Celtic Tiger: Economic Growth Paths in an Economic History Perspective

Sequeira, Tiago Neves - EconWPA - 2003

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Fiscal policy in the EU countries most affected by the crisis: Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain

Krajewska, Anna - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 17 (2014) 3, pp. 5-27

in selected countries of the euro area: Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. These peripheral euro zone countries come …

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The "Iberian Tigers" versus The "Celtic Tiger": Economic Growth Paths in an Economic History perspective

Sequeira, Tiago Neves - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - 2002

The years following the Second World War are those of greatest economic growth in Europe. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland, also neutral but...

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Growth in the ‘Cohesion Countries’: the Irish tortoise and the Portuguese hare, 1979-2002

Lains, Pedro - Departamento de Economia, Gestão e Engenharia … - 2006

of ‘cohesion’ countries. Ireland and Portugal stand out as the two extreme examples, as Ireland caught-up to the … forerunners very rapidly after the launching of EMU, in 1992, whereas Portugal lost ground. This paper looks at structural shifts … in order to explain the different performances of the two economies. We conclude that Portugal’s labour productivity lag …

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