The State of Public Finances: Outlook and Medium-Term Policies
... This paper quantifies the fiscal implications of the crisis, assesses the status of fiscal balances after the shock, and discusses the strategy to ensure fiscal solvency. The focus is primarily on advanced and emerging economies, complementing the Board paper on the effect of the crisis on low-incom ...
... This paper quantifies the fiscal implications of the crisis, assesses the status of fiscal balances after the shock, and discusses the strategy to ensure fiscal solvency. The focus is primarily on advanced and emerging economies, complementing the Board paper on the effect of the crisis on low-incom ...
Doing it for ourselves: The Pirate Bay as strategic
... It is true that such theories constitute a kind of ‘fringe’ discourse within the field of economics at large, and one that lacks the legitimacy that is usually granted to more academic work. Published mostly on the Internet, and then also occasionally translated into paperback publications for the m ...
... It is true that such theories constitute a kind of ‘fringe’ discourse within the field of economics at large, and one that lacks the legitimacy that is usually granted to more academic work. Published mostly on the Internet, and then also occasionally translated into paperback publications for the m ...
the Case of a Small Open Economy
... instance, trade liberalisation is often found to be a growth-driving factor for developing countries. However, the secondary effects may include costly resource reallocation, disappearance of entire industries, and even rising emigration pressures 1. Migration is not only associated with gains and l ...
... instance, trade liberalisation is often found to be a growth-driving factor for developing countries. However, the secondary effects may include costly resource reallocation, disappearance of entire industries, and even rising emigration pressures 1. Migration is not only associated with gains and l ...
Structural Change in an Open Economy
... Two of the most important developments affecting the world’s economies in the past halfcentury have been globalization, particularly in international trade, and the emergence of a hump-shaped pattern in manufacturing employment shares for many upper-income countries. Employment shares in manufacturi ...
... Two of the most important developments affecting the world’s economies in the past halfcentury have been globalization, particularly in international trade, and the emergence of a hump-shaped pattern in manufacturing employment shares for many upper-income countries. Employment shares in manufacturi ...
Social and Cultural Determinants of Entrepreneurship Development
... the change of economic structure in rural areas. Non-agricultural economic activity development promotes reducing an evident unemployment and also “hidden” one, which is characteristic for the agricultural sector in Poland. Despite the ongoing systematic decline in the number of persons employed in ...
... the change of economic structure in rural areas. Non-agricultural economic activity development promotes reducing an evident unemployment and also “hidden” one, which is characteristic for the agricultural sector in Poland. Despite the ongoing systematic decline in the number of persons employed in ...
Structuration theory amid negative and positive criticism
... Instead of Foucault, for example, who relates the fragmentation of the identity of agents to political conditions. In fact, his work focuses rather on the forms of power that an individual is subjected to. His analysis is closer to the political level. Indeed, Foucault has a pessimistic analysis of ...
... Instead of Foucault, for example, who relates the fragmentation of the identity of agents to political conditions. In fact, his work focuses rather on the forms of power that an individual is subjected to. His analysis is closer to the political level. Indeed, Foucault has a pessimistic analysis of ...
This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from... Bureau of Economic Research
... record of man's efforts to raise himself from poverty. The record for the United States begins mainly in the latter part of the nineteenth century. This is a relatively brief segment even of modern history, but it is a period and a setting in which efforts to raise productive efficiency were notably ...
... record of man's efforts to raise himself from poverty. The record for the United States begins mainly in the latter part of the nineteenth century. This is a relatively brief segment even of modern history, but it is a period and a setting in which efforts to raise productive efficiency were notably ...
Do labor market policies affect employment composition? Lessons
... Over recent years, the composition of employment has received a great deal of attention, both from academic researchers and policy makers. This is in part explained by the growth of the proportion of workers who are self-employed observed in several countries in the 90s — during which it was the mos ...
... Over recent years, the composition of employment has received a great deal of attention, both from academic researchers and policy makers. This is in part explained by the growth of the proportion of workers who are self-employed observed in several countries in the 90s — during which it was the mos ...
Trade Effects of Regional Economic Integration in Africa: The
... and there by limited level of intra trade. The existing literatures in Africa, particularly in Southern African regional integration bloc, SADC have neglected effects of regional economic integration dealing with disaggregated data. This study analyzes trade creation and diversion effects of the Sou ...
... and there by limited level of intra trade. The existing literatures in Africa, particularly in Southern African regional integration bloc, SADC have neglected effects of regional economic integration dealing with disaggregated data. This study analyzes trade creation and diversion effects of the Sou ...
Complete Foundation Tier Q Booklet File
... Describe how outsourcing can affect different countries in different ways (4) 2015: What is meant by the term tertiary sector? (2) 2015: Outline two reasons why foreign direct investment has grown over the past 50 Years (4) 2015: Describe the impact of globalisation on different groups of people in ...
... Describe how outsourcing can affect different countries in different ways (4) 2015: What is meant by the term tertiary sector? (2) 2015: Outline two reasons why foreign direct investment has grown over the past 50 Years (4) 2015: Describe the impact of globalisation on different groups of people in ...
Social Psychology and Multiculturalism Verkuyten, Maykel
... minority groups, multiculturalism offers the possibility of maintaining their own culture and obtaining higher social status in society. Majority group members, on the other hand, may see ethnic minorities and their desire to maintain their own culture as a threat to their cultural dominance and gro ...
... minority groups, multiculturalism offers the possibility of maintaining their own culture and obtaining higher social status in society. Majority group members, on the other hand, may see ethnic minorities and their desire to maintain their own culture as a threat to their cultural dominance and gro ...
26 Writing it up, writing it down: being reflexive in accounts of
... other people's lives, however much they permit one to enter it. Other anthropologists have argued that exploitation and even betrayal are endemic to field work. It has even been described as a form of violence. albeit symbolic violence (Crapanzano, 1977). Agar ( 1982) argues that research is not con ...
... other people's lives, however much they permit one to enter it. Other anthropologists have argued that exploitation and even betrayal are endemic to field work. It has even been described as a form of violence. albeit symbolic violence (Crapanzano, 1977). Agar ( 1982) argues that research is not con ...
PHILIPPINE ECONOMIC MYSTERY_singlespace
... economic growth over the course of the second half of the twentieth century was much less than most other Asian nations and a major disappointment to most Filipinos. With the exceptions of Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore, the Philippines in 1950 had a higher income per capita (based on the ...
... economic growth over the course of the second half of the twentieth century was much less than most other Asian nations and a major disappointment to most Filipinos. With the exceptions of Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore, the Philippines in 1950 had a higher income per capita (based on the ...
- Lancaster EPrints
... This development seems to have both theoretical and practical motives. On the one hand, it apparently stems from growing dissatisfaction with a number of dominant approaches in conventionally demarcated mainstream social science disciplines. This holds both for the regulation approach and for resea ...
... This development seems to have both theoretical and practical motives. On the one hand, it apparently stems from growing dissatisfaction with a number of dominant approaches in conventionally demarcated mainstream social science disciplines. This holds both for the regulation approach and for resea ...
The promise of historical sociology in international relations
... paradigms. It is, I argue, through just such an approach that the major trends, causal patterns and analytical properties of contemporary world politics can be usefully unpacked, surveyed and explained. My argument proceeds in four parts. The first section explores the sociological microfoundations ...
... paradigms. It is, I argue, through just such an approach that the major trends, causal patterns and analytical properties of contemporary world politics can be usefully unpacked, surveyed and explained. My argument proceeds in four parts. The first section explores the sociological microfoundations ...
Position paper
... the impact on productivity and economic growth2. Public intervention in innovation is justified if it helps in achieving these goals, and in such a way that would not have happened if left to market forces. Policymakers have designed and implemented a wide range of incentives and schemes to make thi ...
... the impact on productivity and economic growth2. Public intervention in innovation is justified if it helps in achieving these goals, and in such a way that would not have happened if left to market forces. Policymakers have designed and implemented a wide range of incentives and schemes to make thi ...
V - Institute for Research on Poverty
... The purpose of this paper is to provide an exegesis of this literature. Our reasons for doing this are several. ...
... The purpose of this paper is to provide an exegesis of this literature. Our reasons for doing this are several. ...
breaking new paths: theory and method in path
... “The bottom line is: organization scholars will not be able to verify path dependence empirically if their argument relies on the ex post demonstration that something did happen contingently.” (Vergne and Durand (2010)) Vergne and Durand (2010) appear to be convinced that contingent events, where th ...
... “The bottom line is: organization scholars will not be able to verify path dependence empirically if their argument relies on the ex post demonstration that something did happen contingently.” (Vergne and Durand (2010)) Vergne and Durand (2010) appear to be convinced that contingent events, where th ...
Do economic models tell us anything useful about Cohesion Policy
... Step 5: Economic theory and public investment: Recent theoretical advances in trade theory, growth theory and economic geography provide insights that can be drawn on for the planning and analysis of Cohesion Policy.7 These theoretical advances tell us something about the role of investment in physi ...
... Step 5: Economic theory and public investment: Recent theoretical advances in trade theory, growth theory and economic geography provide insights that can be drawn on for the planning and analysis of Cohesion Policy.7 These theoretical advances tell us something about the role of investment in physi ...
Murphy, Eithne (2013) The evolution of trade theory: an exercise in
... that is the domain of natural scientists (such as quarks, photons, magnetic fields), which place different ontological constraints on respective scientific practitioners (Maki, 2009, pp. 87-88). For him, economic theorising in model form amounts to the re-arranging of these commonsensibles, which, i ...
... that is the domain of natural scientists (such as quarks, photons, magnetic fields), which place different ontological constraints on respective scientific practitioners (Maki, 2009, pp. 87-88). For him, economic theorising in model form amounts to the re-arranging of these commonsensibles, which, i ...
Ethnography of Nigeria - National Open University of Nigeria
... Ethnography in contrast is used to describe the study of the culture for a single tribe, ethnic group or society. But because almost all ethnographers make comparisons, at least with neighbouring peoples, the distinction between Ethnography and Ethnology is sometimes blurred. In fact, if the distinc ...
... Ethnography in contrast is used to describe the study of the culture for a single tribe, ethnic group or society. But because almost all ethnographers make comparisons, at least with neighbouring peoples, the distinction between Ethnography and Ethnology is sometimes blurred. In fact, if the distinc ...
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH PRACTICE
... Findings are thus either mediated through the researcher (‘value-mediated’), or are negotiated and agreed between the researcher and research participants. Between these two positions – objective observation and value-mediated observation – some researchers propose ‘empathic neutrality’, a position ...
... Findings are thus either mediated through the researcher (‘value-mediated’), or are negotiated and agreed between the researcher and research participants. Between these two positions – objective observation and value-mediated observation – some researchers propose ‘empathic neutrality’, a position ...
THREE ESSAYS ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE By Yih
... the monopolistic competition model. Helpman and Krugman (1985) proposed a model in which monopolistically competitive firms produce differentiated goods using an increasing returns to scale technology (IRS) and all individuals have identical homothetic preferences and a “love for variety”.1 Their mo ...
... the monopolistic competition model. Helpman and Krugman (1985) proposed a model in which monopolistically competitive firms produce differentiated goods using an increasing returns to scale technology (IRS) and all individuals have identical homothetic preferences and a “love for variety”.1 Their mo ...
TRUTH, RATIONALITY, AND THE SITUATION Mark A. Notturno
... as it can the true statements about the world from those that are false, and to retain the truths'.1 I do not, however, think that this statement about the task of empirical science is true. For suppose that there are no true universal statements about the world, but that we can determine whether an ...
... as it can the true statements about the world from those that are false, and to retain the truths'.1 I do not, however, think that this statement about the task of empirical science is true. For suppose that there are no true universal statements about the world, but that we can determine whether an ...
Development economics
Development economics is a branch of economics which deals with economic aspects of the development process in low-income countries. Its focus is not only on methods of promoting economic development, economic growth and structural change but also on improving the potential for the mass of the population, for example, through health and education and workplace conditions, whether through public or private channels.Development economics involves the creation of theories and methods that aid in the determination of policies and practices and can be implemented at either the domestic or international level. This may involve restructuring market incentives or using mathematical methods such as inter-temporal optimization for project analysis, or it may involve a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods.Unlike in many other fields of economics, approaches in development economics may incorporate social and political factors to devise particular plans. Also unlike many other fields of economics, there is no consensus on what students should know. Different approaches may consider the factors that contribute to economic convergence or non-convergence across households, regions, and countries.