Grass Roots War on Poverty
…statistical evidence for a large number of developing countries strongly supports the hypothesis of a trickle down effect, not a bottom up effect as the best way to beat poverty….
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…statistical evidence for a large number of developing countries strongly supports the hypothesis of a trickle down effect, not a bottom up effect as the best way to beat poverty….
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…Pacific’s cumulative gain in labor productivity during the expansionary phase is twice that of LAC. Moreover, the evidence also shows that the effects of the contraction in public investment surpass…
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…conceptual framework for debating public policy for analyzing the policies recommended and applied so far, to deal with Climate Change’s causes and effects, from an economic perspective. We present the…
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…context. The effect of this modification is to change the fundamental shape of the data trends, which can be clearly seen when proportional axes are used and hypothetical context removed….
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…and thus, that only those economic and political actors who manage to produce and make use of the rarest innovations and skills will prevail in the global competition between firms…
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…made by Piketty between “capital” and “wealth” which for him cover the same economic reality, and shows that productive capital, real estate capital and net financial assets cannot be put…
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…parameters, on the hypothesis that prices reflect net present values (NPVs) of future cash flows. Special cases are noted and interpreted. The formula explains the counterintuitive observation that a stamp…
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…lower interest rates and thus more funds to be used by firms for investment. The paper shows that proponents of this theory confuse quite different economic phenomena and commit serious…
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…of often counter-productive, bureaucratic income security programs. Better results can be achieved with lower costs by implementing basic income, or a guaranteed livable income. This study does not seek any…
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We have previously presented a critique of the standard Marshallian theory of the firm, and developed an alternative formulation that better agreed with the results of simulation. An incorrect mathematical…
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…not follow through on their theoretical arguments, and do not explain what drives the results of their computer simulations. Consequently, their contributions confuse rather than clarify understanding of firm behavior….
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In light of wide differences in economic outcomes in the world, this paper uses an evolutionary set of lenses to examine the clusters of Buenos Aires’ automotive, Los Lagos’ salmon,…
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…episodes that Mexico has experienced during the last four decades. Subsequently it identifies the effects that public spending cuts have had on investment and economic growth in Mexico. Next, it…
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…effects of rhetoric on policy debate, and the importance of “traction” on political agendas are then considered. Propositions are presented indicating, in particular: policy issues will only be addressed spasmodically;…
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…increasing banks’ stable funding entails a decreasing of the stable funding for the rest of the economy and securitization. Thus this strengthening is harmful and the way for the financial…
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…regulation.6 As such, it would be a transformative development. There is, however, a far more modest way of approximating the same result. And it builds upon our existing regulatory infrastructure:…
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…basic criteria of justice. Insulating the valuation function from the transaction function of financial markets through the creation of independent valuation institutions could be a way to tackle this problem….
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…Beardsley Ruml, even wrote a piece entitled “Taxes for Revenue are Obsolete”. None of these economists were arguing that we should dispense with taxes – which can be used for…
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…sustainability as a policy mix in which fiscal policy “gets out of the way” of “monetary dominance”, defined as the central bank’s ability to independently pursue an “optimal” monetary policy….
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…rivalry that had caused several major military conflicts, which culminated in German aggression in 1939. Against this background, Mitchell (2015) also examines the way in which the discussions of European…
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…should be given at the end of the articles in the following style with hyperlinks wherever useful and possible. For a review of the Harvard system, see: http://www.library.dmu.ac.uk/Images/Selfstudy/Harvard.pdf or http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~bstahl/HarvardStyle.htm…
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…tax havens, and companies are increasingly shifting profits through Bermuda, Luxembourg, the Cayman Islands and other such offshore jurisdictions. The best guesses suggest that there are approximately 60 secrecy jurisdictions,…
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