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Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven...
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Economists around the world rely in addition to official statistics on business (and consumer) surveys, which are more up-to-date. However, for many emerging and developing countries there is a lack of such surveys. This gap can, at least partly, be filled by the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)....
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This study investigates how corporate R&D evolves in the light of the contemporary economic crisis. We study empirical evidence from past downturns, discuss the relevant literature, and perform an empirical analysis of recent business survey data (collected during 2009). Pivotal for our...
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The information and communications revolution has hastened the process of globalization in today's world of business. Consequently, businesses, even small and mid-sized companies, are confronted with cultural diversity when these companies become internationally active. Yet only few businesses...
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Dieser Artikel beleuchtet aus einer wirtschaftsethischen Perspektive, wie Globalisierung im öffentlichen Diskurs … wahrgenommen wird und wie sie stattdessen wahrgenommen werden müsste, um die mit Globalisierung verbundenen Chancen und Risiken … richtig einschätzen zu können. Die Hauptaussagen lauten: (1) Globalisierung ist kein Nullsummenspiel. (2) Globalisierung ist …
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In this paper, the world distribution of personal incomes (WDPI) is estimated using a global sample comprising country sample clones. A clone is a random sample that reproduces – with predetermined high probability and precision – an unknown survey sample using information that is 'encoded'...
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deren Konsequenzen für die Ressourcennutzung dargestellt. Danach wird die empirische Evidenz über die Entwicklung der …
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This paper argues that the current episode of global imbalances is caused by the rise of neoliberalism. The paper employs the neo-Gramscian approach to understand the emergence and expansion of neoliberalism. The global imbalances have been the economic consequences of the rise of neoliberalism...
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The authors use the Bank of Canada's version of the Global Economy Model, a multi-country, multi-sector dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with an active banking system (the BoC-GEM-FIN), to study the evolution of global current account balances following the recent global financial...
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Tolerance – respecting those who are different – is arguably of particular importance in an era of globalization, where a potential for economic, social and personal development is increasingly a function of interaction with others different from oneself. We investigate whether globalization...
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