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Economic Performance and Meat Quality Traits of Extensively Reared Beef Cattle in Greece [PDF]
AnimalsExtensive cattle farming significantly contributes to Greece’s agricultural economy. In such systems, animals mainly graze on natural grasslands whose biodiversity significantly affects meat quality traits.
Vasiliki Papanikolopoulou +6 more
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The relationship between health insurance and economic performance: an empirical study based on meta-analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthHealth insurance stands as a pivotal facet of social wellbeing, with profound implications for the overarching landscape of economic development. The existing research, however, lacks consensus on the relationship between health insurance and economic ...
Chenchen Fan, Chunyan Li, Xiaoting Song
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Trustworthiness and Economic Performance [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 Intrinsically trustworthy agents never cheat. A society's willingness to trust and the quality of its institutions have their origins in the intrinsic trustworthiness of its citizens. Trustworthiness is the basis for maximizing output in economic exchange and in explaining differences in standards of living around the world.
Breuer, Janice Boucher, McDermott, John
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Understanding china's economic performance [PDF]
The Journal of Policy Reform, 1997 Broadly speaking, two schools of thought have emerged to interpret China's rapid growth since 1978: the experimentalist school and the convergence school. The experimentalist school attributes China's successes to the evolutionary, experimental, and incremental nature of China's reforms.
Sachs, Jeffrey D., Woo, Wing Thye
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Learning, Institutions, and Economic Performance [PDF]
Perspectives on Politics, 2004 In this article, we provide a broad overview of the interplay among cognition, belief systems, and institutions, and how they affect economic performance. We argue that a deeper understanding of institutions' emergence, their working properties, and their effect on economic and political outcomes should begin from an analysis of cognitive processes. We
Chrysostomos Mantzavinos +2 more
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Explaining African Economic Performance [PDF]
Journal of Economic Literature, 1999 Africa has had slow growth and a massive exodus of capital. In many respects it has been the most capital-hostile region. We review and interpret the aggregate-level and microeconomic literatures to identify the key explanations for this performance.
Jan Willem Gunning, Paul Collier
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PERFORMATIVITY, ECONOMICS AND POLITICS [PDF]
Journal of Cultural Economy, 2010 Presenting the theme of performativity in a journal named the Journal of Cultural Economy makes the role performativity plays in the economy a logical place to start and the debt to Michel Callon (1998) an obvious one to acknowledge. Callon’s idea was that ‘economics does not describe an existing external ‘‘economy’’, but brings that economy into being:
Cochoy, Franck +2 more
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Happiness and Economic Performance [PDF]
The Economic Journal, 1997 If a nation's economic performance improves, how much extra happiness does that buy its citizens? Most public debate assumes -- without real evidence -- that the answer is a lot. This paper examines the question by using information on well-being in Western countries.
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THE WELFARE STATE AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE [PDF]
National Tax Journal, 1995 The Welfare State has come under attack from economists, particularly in Western Europe, who argue that it is responsible for poor economic performance, and that public spending should be reduced.
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Corporate Social Responsibility: Historical Overview and Conceptual Framework
Journal of Environmental Management and TourismThe emergence of unprecedented socio-environmental challenges has highlighted the need for a profound transformation of traditional business models.
Lamia EL BADRI +3 more
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