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Net private capital flows (Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Portfolio Investment and private credit flows) to emerging market economies declined significantly after the 1997 Financial Crisis. In 2002, the world's net private capital flows to emerging markets declined to the lowest level in the...
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primary source of economic development, innovation and growth. The realisation that fast growing SMEs are major contributors … development of wealth, innovation, employment and national competitiveness. Additionally, whilst network arrangements are often … often occurs (Kinsella 1989), suggesting a particular importance for proximity in these processes. In terms of innovation …
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The paper develops a broad macroeconomic innovation policy framework for ecologically sustainable economic development … this paper which sets out an innovation policy aimed at satisficing towards sustainable regional development from an …
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"There is a relatively small but growing literature in economics that examines conflictive activities using a framework in which agents allocate their resource endowments between wealth production and appropriation. To date, studies in this literature have employed a similar one period game...
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This paper explores several features of, and changes in, innovation capacity in Asia. The growth of technology … support for the diffusion of innovation and technological learning. As a number of Asian countries reach the global … international competitiveness. Using the analytical frameworks of national innovation systems and varieties of capitalism, the paper …
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In this paper we study the effect of quality of institutions in the OECD and Asian host countries on outward foreign direct investment (FDI) stocks of source OECD countries using International Country Risk Guide governance indicators, for the period 1991 to 2001. We find that better institutions...
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The study investigates the interdependence of the stock markets in the following countries; Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and the advanced stock markets of Australia, Germany and the United States. Using data from 1994 to 2003 the paper...
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Includes descriptive metadata provided by producer in QuickTime movie file: "Politics, Economics and Social Issues - Video - Paul Volcker talks about the economic crisis." By Vanderbilt University. Paul A. Volcker, senior economic advisor to President Obama and former chairman of the Federal...
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This research paper presents theoretical and practical approaches at how the banking sector manages financial information, with emphasis being placed on financial service operations of cheque processing and securities trading. The banking sector was identified as it is presently the most vibrant...
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This paper focuses on the theme of women entrepreneurs, business and gender in two transitional economies, namely Nigeria and China. As the OECD Conferences on Women Entrepreneurs in Small and Medium Enterprises held in Paris in 1997 and 2000 pointed out, a situation where women are...
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