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Social responsibility of green microfinance institutions: A tool for promoting women’s economic empowerment in China

open access: yesTechnological and Economic Development of Economy
Economic freedom has central importance among the nations, however, Chinese economic freedom index declining continuously, leading to the several issues. Particularly, economic freedom is low among the Chinese female population.
Jiuzheng Pei
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Estimating the size of the trade sector in the Economic Freedom of the World index [PDF]

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The Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index measures the extent to which nations allow their citizens economic freedom. The freedom of people to trade internationally is a featured area within the index.
Chuck Skipton   +2 more
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Explaining Welfare State Survival: The Role of Economic Freedom and Globalization [PDF]

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Using the economic freedom index and the newly developed KOF-index of globalization, it is shown that the Scandinavian welfare states have experienced faster, bigger and more consistent increases in these areas, compared to the smaller European and the ...
Bergh, Andreas
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Pakistan's progress towards economic freedom

open access: yesContemporary South Asia, 1997
Contemporary South Asia, 1997, vol. 6, no. 1. Refereed Journal Article Pakistan has been gradually liberalizing its economy. Like many less developed countries in the 1980s Pakistan had a large government sector, measured both in terms of its direct involvement in the productive structure (government enterprises), also through its interference (price ...
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Forced to Freedom? Empirical Relations between Aid and Economic Freedom [PDF]

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The paper explores the relationships between economic freedom on the one side and development aid and IMF credit as approximation for conditional aid on the other side.
Franz Kronthaler, Tobias Knedlik
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The Contribution of the IMF and the World Bank to Economic Freedom [PDF]

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We analyse the effect of IMF and World Bank policies on the composite index of economic freedom by Gwartney et al. (2000) as well as its sub-indexes, using a panel of 85 countries observed between 1970 and 1997. With respect to the Bank, we find that the
Boockmann, Bernhard, Dreher, Axel
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