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... Less regulation is preferable across all parts of the distribution and in all countries. The ratings do not allow for a minimum desirable level of regulation needed to ensure public benefits. This principle is embedded in 7 of the 10 indicators and is especially prominent in the following 3 indicato ...
... Less regulation is preferable across all parts of the distribution and in all countries. The ratings do not allow for a minimum desirable level of regulation needed to ensure public benefits. This principle is embedded in 7 of the 10 indicators and is especially prominent in the following 3 indicato ...
This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from... Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: The Design of Economic Accounts
... or sector is larger than this gross saving, its capital formation will require a net financial contribution by -other industries or sectors. Conversely if a given industry or sector generates grOss savings in excess of its gross investment, it will be providing financing to other industries or secto ...
... or sector is larger than this gross saving, its capital formation will require a net financial contribution by -other industries or sectors. Conversely if a given industry or sector generates grOss savings in excess of its gross investment, it will be providing financing to other industries or secto ...
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... China has the most persistent economic growth among developing countries. The annual growth rate in the country’s real gross domestic product (GDP) averaged around 10 percent per annum from1990 to 2005. The country's per capita GDP1 was $1,099 in 1990 and $4,076 in 2005. The importance of agricultur ...
... China has the most persistent economic growth among developing countries. The annual growth rate in the country’s real gross domestic product (GDP) averaged around 10 percent per annum from1990 to 2005. The country's per capita GDP1 was $1,099 in 1990 and $4,076 in 2005. The importance of agricultur ...
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... What market, economic welfare and food self sufficiency effects migh these expected changes in productivity of global agricultural resources have? If they were progressively to lower world food output, the international food price trend would move onto a higher trajectory, depending on how each coun ...
... What market, economic welfare and food self sufficiency effects migh these expected changes in productivity of global agricultural resources have? If they were progressively to lower world food output, the international food price trend would move onto a higher trajectory, depending on how each coun ...
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... Has caused a number of international economic institutions (especially World Bank) to call for export promotion as an important development strategy Contrasts with import substitution in which domestic industrialization occurs in response to tariff and quota protection ...
... Has caused a number of international economic institutions (especially World Bank) to call for export promotion as an important development strategy Contrasts with import substitution in which domestic industrialization occurs in response to tariff and quota protection ...
Net emigration of Latvian nationals by destination, 2000-2011
... • Remittances reduce negative effect on GDP by about 50%, but for how long? • By reducing population and hence the domestic market size, emigration discourages investment - both foreign and domestic • Economic theory and evidence from other countries suggest that FDI from and export to countries hos ...
... • Remittances reduce negative effect on GDP by about 50%, but for how long? • By reducing population and hence the domestic market size, emigration discourages investment - both foreign and domestic • Economic theory and evidence from other countries suggest that FDI from and export to countries hos ...
PART I: A STANDARD ANALYSIS OF FACTOR MOBILITY
... its elasticity of labor demand with respect to output, so that the sector’s demand for labor will increase by εLx percent. On the other hand, due to the decline in the number of firms in the industry, the industry’s labor demand will fall by 1 percent, so that bL ≡ 1 − εLx is the proportion of the i ...
... its elasticity of labor demand with respect to output, so that the sector’s demand for labor will increase by εLx percent. On the other hand, due to the decline in the number of firms in the industry, the industry’s labor demand will fall by 1 percent, so that bL ≡ 1 − εLx is the proportion of the i ...
FAL_Bulletin233_en.pdf
... quotas, like tariffs, raise the domestic price of that product in the importing country and diminish domestic demand for that product. However, as this concerns quotas and not tariffs, increases in price benefit domestic both producers and exporters. Quota elimination would damage not only local pro ...
... quotas, like tariffs, raise the domestic price of that product in the importing country and diminish domestic demand for that product. However, as this concerns quotas and not tariffs, increases in price benefit domestic both producers and exporters. Quota elimination would damage not only local pro ...
Europe: Population Change and its Consequences – An Overview
... This paper provides a demographic overview. It looks at our recent past, at current demographic trends and projected population change in Europe. The main focus of the analysis is on Western and Central Europe (EU27/EEA). Today this world region has a total population of more than 500 million growin ...
... This paper provides a demographic overview. It looks at our recent past, at current demographic trends and projected population change in Europe. The main focus of the analysis is on Western and Central Europe (EU27/EEA). Today this world region has a total population of more than 500 million growin ...
Global Baltimore Report - Global Studies
... founded on the empire of political justice” (4). He believed that finding a solution to the establishment of this society will be the highest problem for the Human Species, but that a solution is inevitable. Additionally, in his paper on Perpetual Peace, Kant discussed how marriage between states is ...
... founded on the empire of political justice” (4). He believed that finding a solution to the establishment of this society will be the highest problem for the Human Species, but that a solution is inevitable. Additionally, in his paper on Perpetual Peace, Kant discussed how marriage between states is ...
PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT Productivity, social expenditure and income distribution
... significant share of total social expenditure goes to pay pensions, which in Latin America do not have a positive impact on income distribution —due to the fact that a large share of total employment is informal and excluded from this benefit. At the same time, productivity levels are much lower tha ...
... significant share of total social expenditure goes to pay pensions, which in Latin America do not have a positive impact on income distribution —due to the fact that a large share of total employment is informal and excluded from this benefit. At the same time, productivity levels are much lower tha ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE NEW KALDOR FACTS: Charles I. Jones
... In 1961, Nicholas Kaldor used his list of six "stylized" facts both to summarize the patterns that economists had discovered in national income accounts and to shape the growth models that they were developing to explain them. Redoing this exercise today, nearly fifty years later, shows how much pro ...
... In 1961, Nicholas Kaldor used his list of six "stylized" facts both to summarize the patterns that economists had discovered in national income accounts and to shape the growth models that they were developing to explain them. Redoing this exercise today, nearly fifty years later, shows how much pro ...
Analysis on Technology Transfer from Global Trading and Related Measuring Indication
... With an upsurge of economic globalization, trade liberalization and liberalization of international capital flowing are increasing. Scientific and technological advancement and the rapid development of knowledge-based economy make international competition more and more perform for the technical lev ...
... With an upsurge of economic globalization, trade liberalization and liberalization of international capital flowing are increasing. Scientific and technological advancement and the rapid development of knowledge-based economy make international competition more and more perform for the technical lev ...
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... Perhaps the most contentious issue of the day stirring the agricultural trade is the treatment of transgenic crops and genetically modified (GM) foods. For the purposes of this paper we define GM foods as those containing some transgenetic crop without necessarily specifying any actual tolerance le ...
... Perhaps the most contentious issue of the day stirring the agricultural trade is the treatment of transgenic crops and genetically modified (GM) foods. For the purposes of this paper we define GM foods as those containing some transgenetic crop without necessarily specifying any actual tolerance le ...
Dispelling Some Misconceptions about Agricultural Trade
... output are actually less than half that total, while other forms of support, such as import tariffs and “decoupled” assistance that is not linked to levels of farm production are actually more important. An opening discussion of the mechanics of agricultural support will set the stage for the next p ...
... output are actually less than half that total, while other forms of support, such as import tariffs and “decoupled” assistance that is not linked to levels of farm production are actually more important. An opening discussion of the mechanics of agricultural support will set the stage for the next p ...
- Caribbean Centre for Money and Finance
... benefits from greater contact and better information exchange with its NAFTA partners, especially in the case of those Mexican firms that were subcontracted. Schiff and Wang also simulated the impact of NAFTA on Mexico and found a permanent increase of 5.5% to 7.5% in total factor productivity in Me ...
... benefits from greater contact and better information exchange with its NAFTA partners, especially in the case of those Mexican firms that were subcontracted. Schiff and Wang also simulated the impact of NAFTA on Mexico and found a permanent increase of 5.5% to 7.5% in total factor productivity in Me ...
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... The forces driving this recovery were somewhat temporary in nature. For one, central banks and governments were not expected to play the roles in 2010 that they did in 2009. Although considerably improved, the financial sector in most advanced industrial economies was still far from healthy. Credit ...
... The forces driving this recovery were somewhat temporary in nature. For one, central banks and governments were not expected to play the roles in 2010 that they did in 2009. Although considerably improved, the financial sector in most advanced industrial economies was still far from healthy. Credit ...
Chapter 9.1: Why Does Development Vary Among Countries?
... production of those things for your own people. • Then you are forced to spend money to supply them (food, clothes, etc.) In spite of problems with international trade, many countries believe this is the best route towards development India recently dismantled its barriers to foreign trade believing ...
... production of those things for your own people. • Then you are forced to spend money to supply them (food, clothes, etc.) In spite of problems with international trade, many countries believe this is the best route towards development India recently dismantled its barriers to foreign trade believing ...
krugman_PPT_c11
... • A policy that could be agreeable for governments of low and middle income countries is a system that monitors wages and working conditions and makes this information available to consumers. Products could be certified as made with acceptable wage rates and working conditions. But this policy w ...
... • A policy that could be agreeable for governments of low and middle income countries is a system that monitors wages and working conditions and makes this information available to consumers. Products could be certified as made with acceptable wage rates and working conditions. But this policy w ...
Saskia Sassen and the Sociology of Globalization
... This demand for immigrant labor in global cities is part of the larger restructuring of the production and labor process. As many scholars and analysts of global economic transformation have observed, there is a bifurcation of the labor force: an expansion of high-income professional and technical j ...
... This demand for immigrant labor in global cities is part of the larger restructuring of the production and labor process. As many scholars and analysts of global economic transformation have observed, there is a bifurcation of the labor force: an expansion of high-income professional and technical j ...
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... UN High Level Panel Report May 2013 • Five big transformative shifts 1. Leave no one behind 2. Out sustainable development at the core 3. Transform economies for jobs and inclusive growth 4. Build peace and effective, open and accountable institutions for all 5. Forge a new global partnership ...
... UN High Level Panel Report May 2013 • Five big transformative shifts 1. Leave no one behind 2. Out sustainable development at the core 3. Transform economies for jobs and inclusive growth 4. Build peace and effective, open and accountable institutions for all 5. Forge a new global partnership ...
The Role of Land Along the Development Path María Dolores Guilló
... affect only the position of a country along the development process. In other words, they predict that country-specific factors not related to “deep” parameters have only long-run effects with no influence on the speed of convergence. In sharp contrast to these predictions, this paper shows, within an ...
... affect only the position of a country along the development process. In other words, they predict that country-specific factors not related to “deep” parameters have only long-run effects with no influence on the speed of convergence. In sharp contrast to these predictions, this paper shows, within an ...
Globalization of the Media: Does It Undermine National Cultures?
... War, some people viewed mass media as a channel of Westernization. The flow of media from the West to less developed countries was regarded by the developed West as good not only for the recipients but also for the senders who saw it as an integral part of their fight against socialism and totalitar ...
... War, some people viewed mass media as a channel of Westernization. The flow of media from the West to less developed countries was regarded by the developed West as good not only for the recipients but also for the senders who saw it as an integral part of their fight against socialism and totalitar ...
Global Business Today, 5e
... be imported into a country. • tariff rate quotas are a hybrid of a quota and a tariff where a lower tariff is applied to imports within the quota than to those over the quota • voluntary export restraints are quotas on trade imposed by the exporting country, typically at the request of the importing ...
... be imported into a country. • tariff rate quotas are a hybrid of a quota and a tariff where a lower tariff is applied to imports within the quota than to those over the quota • voluntary export restraints are quotas on trade imposed by the exporting country, typically at the request of the importing ...