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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...

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The political economy of innovation; an institutional analysis of industrial policy and development in Brazil

Menezes, Jose H. V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This dissertation examines Brazilian industrial policies during the administrations of President Lula (2003-2010) and questions if innovation has truly been the main driver of those instruments. It provides a brief overview on the intersections of politics, economics, innovation and institutions...

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Understanding Long-Run African Growth: Colonial Institutions or Colonial Education? Evidence from a New Data Set

Bolt, Jutta; Bezemer, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

, controlling for legal origins and geography. Utilizing freshly collected data on colonial-era population density and education, we …-institutions channel. The effect of education is robust to including variables capturing legal origin and geography, which have additional … explanatory power. We also find some evidence that institutions are endogenous to education. …

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Relationship Between Financial Aid Policies, Practices and Procedures at Texas Public Colleges and Universities

Kornrum-Byrne, Desiree - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

education. The ability of Texas citizens to access higher education is dependent upon access to financial aid resources to pay … for higher education. Much is known about the impact of particular financial aid outcomes on access and persistence in … higher education. However, very little is known about whether institutional financial aid processes (i.e. the policies …

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Market Information Services

Giovannucci, Daniele; Shepherd, Andrew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

Information is the lifeblood of most market economies. Nevertheless, attempts to jump start information flow by creating Market Information Services for food and agriculture usually fail. The author distills experiences and lessons from other studies and individual experts in the field on the...

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National innovation rates: the evidence for/against domestic institutions

Taylor, Mark Zachary - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Why are some countries more technologically innovative than others? The dominant explanation amongst political-economists is that domestic institutions determine national innovation rates. However, after decades of research, there is still no agreement on precisely how this happens, exactly...

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Contraintes institutionnelles et règlementaires et le secteur informel à Djibouti

Mahamoud, Ismael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This research seeks to detect the institutional and regulatory constraints that limit the development of informal units in Djibouti by both the macroeconomic and microeconomic analysis. The review shows that institutional habits (corruption, going right) in regulation created transaction costs...

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Trade Policies, Investment Climate,and Exports

Seker, Murat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

There is a large body of research that explores international trade as a source of the dispersion in income levels and growth performances across countries. The trade liberalization policies undertaken between 1950 and 2006 led to an almost 30 fold growth in the volume of international trade....

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Second generation governance indicators

Knack, Stephen; Kugler, Mark; Manning, Nick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

This paper summarizes progress made in a DfID-funded World Bank initiative to test and develop policy-relevant, politically acceptable, quantitative indicators of governance. There are two major components involved in the process of generating indicators that are practical means of reform....

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Les hawalas : les systèmes informels de transfert des fonds

Mahamoud, Ismael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The informal systems of transfer of funds (hawalas) arouse an increased interest on behalf of the authorities concerned to regulate them but also among the researchers who try to analyze how they operate for better appreciating of their macroeconomic impact. These institutions are primarily used...

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