Economic conditions and trends in the region: potential strategies to encourage foreign direct investment [PDF]
, 2004 The technology revolution has lead globalization. Because of globalization, there is an advantage of being small like Gaza as it is easier to get organized. The foreign direct investment is crucial to the development of Gaza.
Lemelson, Dorothy, Thurow, Lester
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DEMOCRACY’S SPREAD: Elections and Sovereign Debt in Developing Countries [PDF]
, 2003 We use partisan and opportunistic political business cycle (“PBC”) considerations to develop and test a framework for explaining election-period changes in credit spreads for developing country sovereign bonds.
Block, Steven A. +2 more
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The International agenda: immediate priorities and longer-term challenges [PDF]
This policy contribution comprises Jean Pisani-Ferry's remarks at the Asian Development Bank Institute Annual Conference. For him, the challenge policymakers are facing, is to not to waste time before addressing the urgent tasks ahead of them and not to ...
Jean Pisani-Ferry
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The changing role of the state : institutional dimensions [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to briefly develop the following points: (1) The argument that the size of the public sector needs to be drastically reduced has probably been taken too far, without really analyzing the full consequences of the shift.
Israel, Arturo
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Regional Trade Integration in Southern Africa: Critical Policy Issues [PDF]
, 2000 The aim of this paper is to highlight key issues arising from regional trade integration in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) as well as the concomitant policies required to facilitate the trade process.
Kalenga, Paul
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Globalization Dynamics in Latin America: South Cone and Iberian Investments [PDF]
This paper analyzes in perspective the integration process through which Latin America, specially the South Cone, went through during the long formation process of the world economy, since the expansion that brought Latin America to capitalist ...
Cezar Guedes, Mário Gómez
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Challenges and opportunities for Iranian global health diplomacy: lessons learned from action for prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases. [PDF]
Health Res Policy Syst, 2021 Asadi-Lari M +4 more
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Romania trying to be an European brand [PDF]
Building a coherent country branding program at international level requires a strong coordination between the government, the business sector, the decision makers from educational and cultural sector, the civil society and, the mass media ...
Alina DRAGHICI +3 more
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Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on climate change summit negotiations from the climate governance perspective. [PDF]
Sci Total Environ, 2023 Vo TPT +7 more
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Fiscal policy in a depressed economy : was there a ‘free lunch’ in 1930s’ Britain? [PDF]
, 2012 We report estimates of the fiscal multiplier for interwar Britain based on quarterly data and timeseries econometrics. We find that the government-expenditure multiplier was in the range 0.3 to 0.9 even during the period that interest rates were at the
Crafts, N. F. R., Mills, Terence C.
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