Economia - Importado
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Roots of Brazilian Relative Economic...
Alexandre Rands Barros(9552119)Roots of Brazil'apos;s Relative Economic Backwardness explains Brazil'apos;s development level in light of modern theories regarding economic growth and international economics. It focuses on both the proximate and fundamental causes of Brazil'apos;s...
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Economics as an Evolutionary Science - From...
Gandolfi,Anna Sachko(10112263)Economics is traditionally taken to be the social science concerned with the production, consumption, exchange, and distribution of wealth and commodities. Economists carefully track the comings and goings of the human household, whether written...
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Saving a Place - Endangered Species in the...
Baden,John A.(10120960)This title was first published in 2000: The noble goals embodied in the Endangered Species Act are colliding with financial and social realities. Citizens increasingly face the costs of current policies, while initiatives which fail to respect...
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El Salvador
Dept.,International Monetary Fund. Stat(10122631)As part of the Regional Project on Harmonizing External Sector Statistics (Proyecto Regional de Armonización de las Estadísticas del Sector Externo - PRAESE) of the Technical Assistance Center for Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic,...
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Evaluation and Poverty Reduction
Osvaldo N. Feinstein(10120349)In his foreword, the president of the World Bank, James D. Wolfensohn, states plainly and precisely the rationale for this volume. 'quot;Evaluation is a central aspect of any poverty reduction endeavor. Evaluation implies that we have adopted a...
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Detroit - Three Pathways to Revitalization
Solomon,Lewis D.(10120598)As America'apos;s most dysfunctional big city, Detroit faces urban decay, population losses, fractured neighborhoods with impoverished households, an uneducated, unskilled workforce, too few jobs, a shrinking tax base, budgetary shortfalls, and...
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A Multidimensional Approach to Trade Policy...
Rachel J. Nam(10122743)We present and discuss a set of indicators to help assess countries' trade policies. The indicators relate to three policy areas - trade in goods, trade in services, and FDI. Given concerns about the direction of global trade policy, we also consider...
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Monetary Policy and Models of Currency Demand
Mariam El Hamiani Khatat(10122653)Two types of currency in circulation models are identified: (1) a first generation derived fromthe theory of money demand and (2) a second generation aimed at producing daily forecastsof currency in circulation. In this paper, we transform the...
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Game Theory Approach to Managerial Strategies...
Abdelhakim Hammoudi(10105171)Economic players must often choose between several strategic options in a fierce competitive environment where interactions with competitors make decisions particularly complex. Game theory offers useful insights to choose an optimal decision or at...
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Demand for Money - An Analysis of the...
Jonung,Lars(10120412)The income velocity of money-an inverse measure of the demand for money balances-is the ratio of the money value of income to the average money stock that the public (excluding banks) holds in a given period. Why the magnitude of that ratio has...
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The Economics of Law, Order, and Action - The...
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski(10112179)According to the standard position of the economic mainstream, the efficient production of so-called public goods, including law and defense, requires the use of territorial monopolies of coercive force. Two arguments are put forward for this...
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The Toxic Boss Survival Guide - Tactics for...
Chappelow,Craig(10129735)Chances are, you already know what it's like to work for a toxic boss. You know they suck the air out of a room and the life out of their employees, and you don't need a research report to tell you that working for one is a nightmare. If this sounds...
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Schumpeter, Innovation and Growth
Mümtaz Keklik(10112861)This title was first published in 2003. Bringing together contemporary innovation pattern theories inspired by the two original patterns developed by Joseph A. Schumpeter, this book develops an innovative new model of long wave aggregate level...
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Grenada
Dept.,International Monetary Fund. West(10125710)This paper discusses Grenada's Fifth Review Under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF), Request for Modification of Performance Criteria, and Financing Assurances review. Overall program implementation remains solid. All quantitative performance...
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Transaction Cost Economics and Beyond -...
Dietrich,Michael(9564708)In recent years transaction costs economics have come to dominate the discussion of the nature and organization of firms. InTransaction Costs Economics and Beyond Michael Driscoll offers a critical exploration of transaction costs. He argues that...
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Alternative Currency Movements as a Challenge...
North,Peter(10112193)Over the past 15 years, local money networks, which are essentially trading networks using a community-created currency, have emerged in countries as far apart as Argentina, Australia and New Zealand, Canada and the US, continental Europe and Japan....
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Demand for Money - An Analysis of the...
Jonung,Lars(10120471)The income velocity of money-an inverse measure of the demand for money balances-is the ratio of the money value of income to the average money stock that the public (excluding banks) holds in a given period. Why the magnitude of that ratio has...
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Ethnic Chinese Entrepreneurship in Malaysia -...
Jakobsen,Michael(10132520)The study of ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia has a long tradition. What is most striking in these studies is just how difficult it is to generalise about this ethnic group in the region. Whether or not they have been able to identify as Chinese has...
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Central Bank Reserve Management and...
Jones,Bradley(10122744)Motivated by the tension first revealed during the global financial crisis between thedomestic and international financial stability obligations of central bank reserve managers,this paper offers some reflections along four main lines. First, the...
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Cuba'apos;s Second Economy - From behind the...
Perez-lopez,Jorge(10121287)Without doubt, Cuba is facing its most serious economic challenge in nearly thirty-five years of revolutionary rule. There is consensus that as the official, centrally planned economy has faltered, ordinary citizens eke out a living only by engaging...
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Social Mobility and the Legal Profession
Elaine Freer(10125209)This book will be crucial reading for students across a variety of disciplines. A broadly socio-legal text, using a mixed-methods design combining grounded theory with an in-depth case study, this research explores a rarely-seen facet of the legal...
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Supervisory Incentives in a Banking Union
Elena Carletti; Giovanni Mr. Dell'apos;Ariccia(9466474)We explore the behavior of supervisors when a centralized agency has full power over alldecisions regarding banks, but relies on local supervisors to collect the information necessaryto act. This institutional design entails a principal-agent problem...
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Do Resource Windfalls Improve the Standard of...
Gueye, Cheikh A.; Munseob Lee(9465105)We examine the impact of resource windfall on the standard of living both in the short-run and long-run, using a sample of 130 countries, 1963-2007. Then, we systematically investigate the effect of resource windfall on welfare in three different...
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Forest Management and Planning
Siry,Jacek; Boston,Kevin; Bettinger, Pete; Siry,Jacek P.(3162576)This book provides a focused understanding of contemporary forest management issues through real life examples to engage students. The methodology for the development of quantitatively-derived forest management plans - from gathering information to...
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Australia
Dept,International Monetary Fund. Asia(10122643)Context. Australia has enjoyed a comparatively robust economic performance while adjusting to the end of the large mining boom of the 2000s. But the economy has not yet returned to full employment, and inflation is below its target range. Housing...
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Securitization and Credit Quality
David Marques?Ibanez(9681868)Banks are usually better informed on the loans they originate than other financial intermediaries.As a result, securitized loans might be of lower credit quality than otherwise similar nonsecuritizedloans. We assess the effect of securitization...
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Saving a Place - Endangered Species in the...
Baden,John A.(10120922)This title was first published in 2000: The noble goals embodied in the Endangered Species Act are colliding with financial and social realities. Citizens increasingly face the costs of current policies, while initiatives which fail to respect...
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Political Economics - Redistributive Policies
Vincenzo Galasso(10122678)This book is written for undergraduate students in Economics and in Political Science who want to learn about the political economics of redistributive policies. It provides a positive analysis of the political process behind the design and...
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The Economics of Commercial Property Markets
Lizieri,Colin; BALL,MICHAEL; MacGregor,Bryan(9567012)This new text provides a rigorous analysis of real estate markets. Three main sections cover:microeconomics of property markets the macroeconomics of commercial property the financial economics of propertyGlobal empirical examples illustrate the...
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Alternative Currency Movements as a Challenge...
North,Peter(10112135)Over the past 15 years, local money networks, which are essentially trading networks using a community-created currency, have emerged in countries as far apart as Argentina, Australia and New Zealand, Canada and the US, continental Europe and Japan....
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Insolvency and Enforcement Reforms in Italy
José Garrido(9465225)Italian banks are burdened with high levels of nonperforming loans, the cleanup of which depends in important part on the efficiency of insolvency and enforcement processes. Traditionally, these processes in Italy have taken very long, hampering the...
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Promoting Sustainable Living - Sustainability...
Karakiewicz, Justyna(10132464)Current images of sustainability are often designed to instil fear and force change, not because we believe in it, but because we fear the consequences of inaction. Moving away from negative portrayals of sustainability, this book identifies the...
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The International Sugar Trade
Spence,Donald; Tony Hannah(9566344)This is the first book to cover in a comprehensive way, the conduct and structure of the international sugar industry from cultivation right through to end use. The authors look in detail at the workings of the growing and production sector and the...
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Political and Investment Risk in the...
Steven A. Mucci(10109186)This book examines the legal, financial, and institutional strategies available to the international oil and gas industry to protect against political and investment risk. It traces the historical development of these techniques and their application...
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Information Technology Outsourcing
Rivard,Suzanne(10082039)This new volume in the 'Advances in Management Information Systems' series presents the latest cutting-edge knowledge in IT outsourcing. As part of the growing business trend to outsourcing various operations, IT outsourcing both determines the...
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Growing Apart, Losing Trust? The Impact of...
Alexander Hijzen; Eric D Gould(9465343)There is a widespread perception that trust and social capital have declined in United States as well asother advanced economies, while income inequality has tended to increase. While previous research hasnoted that measured trust declines as...
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How Large Are Global Energy Subsidies?
Coady,David; Ian W. H. Parry(9487139)This paper provides a comprehensive, updated picture of energy subsidies at the global and regional levels. It focuses on the broad notion of post-tax energy subsidies, which arise when consumer prices are below supply costs plus a tax to reflect...
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Bad Banks - Greed, Incompetence and the Next...
Brummer,Alex(9741666)Bad Banks is a gripping account of the problems and scandals that continue to bedevil the world'apos;s banking system some eight years after the credit crunch. It follows the fortunes and misfortunes of individual banks, from RBS to Lloyds. It...
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Capital Account Openness in Low-income...
Daili Wang; Sarwat Mrs. Jahan(9466427)The relevance of recording and assessing countries' capital flow management measures iswell-recognized, but very few studies have focused on low-income developing countries(LIDCs). A key constraint is the lack of an appropriate index to measure the...
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Aspects of British Economic History -...
A. C. Pigou(9515143)Covering the period from November 1918 to the restoration of the Gold Standard in the UK in April 1925, this book, originally published in 1947, sets out and explains the economic facts of the immediate post-war period. There are sections on...
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Potential Output Growth Estimates for Central...
Fan Zhang; Roberto Mr. Garcia-Saltos(9466590)This paper presents estimates of potential output for all Central American economies. Our findings are that potential output growth has declined in recent years in most economies of Central America. Lower capital accumulation and TFP growth are...
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The Development of African Capital Markets -...
Boniface Chimpango(9487001)Most capital markets that have been established in developing economies like Africa have struggled to make progress over two decades down the line. Development of African Capital Markets explores why these markets have remained underdeveloped and...
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Natural Law and the Origin of Political...
Arild Saether(10132190)Samuel Pufendorf'apos;s work on natural law and political economy was extensive and has been cited by several important figures in the history of economic thought. Yet his name is rarely mentioned in textbooks on the history of economic thought, the...