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Design as a driver of innovation in the East Midlands [PDF]
This study reports on research and consultation with local stakeholders to discuss the role of design as part of the innovation agenda in the East Midlands.
TBR Economics
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Defining And Measuring Green FDI: An Exploratory Review Of Existing Work And Evidence [PDF]
This paper was developed at the request of the OECD Working Party of the Investment Committee to document efforts to date to define and measure green FDI and to investigate the practicability of various possible definitions, as well as to identify ...
Golub, Stephen S. +2 more
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Poverty: A Very Short Introduction [PDF]
No one wants to live in poverty. Few people would want others to do so. Yet, we find ourselves in a situation where millions of people worldwide live in poverty. According to the World Bank in 2010, 1.2 billion people lived below the extreme poverty line
Jefferson, Philip N.
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Demographic Effects On Personal Saving In The Future [PDF]
After briefly examining the various proposed causes for the decline in the U.S. personal saving rate in the past decade, this essay then argues that a shift in the demographic composition of the population will be a much more important cause for a ...
Pryor, Frederic L.
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Monetary Perspective On Underground Economic Activity In The United States [PDF]
There are widespread reports of a growing underground, or unobserved, economy in the United States and in other countries. The unobserved economy seems to develop principally from efforts to evade taxes and government regulation.
Bayer, Amanda, Porter, R. D.
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Measures Of International Transport Cost For OECD Countries [PDF]
This paper presents new estimates of country-specific international transport costs for 21 OECD countries over the period 1973-2005. The methodology is based on direct measures of air, maritime, and road transport costs rather than on cif/fob ratios or ...
Golub, Stephen S., Tomasik, B.
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The Turn in Economics: Neoclassical Dominance to Mainstream Pluralism? [PDF]
This paper investigates whether since the 1980s neoclassical economics has been in the process of being supplanted as the dominant research programme in economics by a collection of competing research approaches which share relatively little in common ...
Davis, John B.
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Policies And International Integration: Influences On Trade And Foreign Direct Investment [PDF]
This paper assesses the importance of border and non-border policies for global economic integration. The focus is on four widely-advocated policies: removing explicit restrictions to trade and FDI; promoting domestic competition; improving the ...
Golub, Stephen S. +4 more
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Interim report on the feasibility of constructing a regional Measure of Domestic Progress (MDP) for East Midlands Development Agency [PDF]
Investigates the feasibility of constructing an adjusted monetarised indicator of regional economic well-being, based on the structure of the nef’s Measure of Domestic Progress (MDP).
New Economics Foundation
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This study presents new, nearly EU wide estimates of the level of subsidies to company cars. In addition, it also provides some preliminary rough illustrations of the possible effects of such subsidies on economic welfare and environment and discusses ...
Copenhagen Economics
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