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Industrialization Strategies and Regional Actors
2021
Against the backdrop of the partly normative, partly empirical policy framework, the major regional industrial policy documents of the African Union, EAC, ECOWAS, SACU and SADC are examined as to their applicability. The empirical cases of the West African dairy and textile value chains are used to discuss the difficulties of regional priority-setting. The precise roles of (a) regional financial institutions, (b) regional development aid, including the panoply of ‘private sector development’ (PSD) projects and (c) regional business associations are defined. A concise summary of the essentials of common industrial policy concludes the chapter.
FINLAND: The Importance of the Private Sport Sector Has Increased in the 2000s
2017
The voluntary sector and the public sector continue to be the main actors in the Finnish sport system; however, in the last decades their importance has declined. Along with the economic downturn, the number of services offered in the public sector has been reduced, and the nature of volunteering has also changed. Voluntary work has received market-based and consumer-like features. Services previously produced by volunteers are currently settled by payments. Owing to changes in the voluntary sector and in the public sector, the importance of the private sector has increased in the 2000s.
The Role of Technical Services in Management of Innovation Activities at Ukrainian Agricultural Enterprises
2019
The ways of introducing innovations into production were found as a result of conducted research on innovative activity at agricultural enterprises in the Ukraine. By means of the developed schemes, the stages of selecting an innovative product were shown and the need to transform the decision-making system in agricultural production was justified. In order to improve the information flow system, it was found that the innovative activity of agricultural enterprises is influenced by the presence of innovation media and innovation-active staffing support of production. The low level of innovation activity of agricultural enterprises is due to the low level of scientific support of agricultura…
Sub-central Governments and Debt Crisis in Spain over the Period 2000–2011
2013
This chapter studies the quantitative evolution of sub-central sovereign debt in Spain over the period 2000–2011 and compares it with the evolution of central debt. As an intense process of political and fiscal decentralization has taken place since the mid eighties, the paper examines whether this drive to decentralization has been paralleled by any fiscally undisciplined behavior on the part of Spanish sub-central governments over the period considered. Some key formal legal rules and informal behavioral norms present at sub-central politics in Spain are examined, including legal controls on borrowing by sub-central governments. The empirical analysis will be based on the internationally …
Economic Diversification and Empowerment of Local Human Resources: Could Singapore Be a Model for the GCC Countries?
2018
This chapter analyses the similarities and differences between the GCC and Singapore with regard to economic diversification strategies. The key for a successful and, thus, sustainable diversification process for the GCC is to reduce the high dependence of the economic revenues away from the hydrocarbon sector. However, an ongoing concern is the continuing need of high foreign workforce that collides with the demands for greater employment opportunities for national citizens. The challenges of those nationalisation strategies will be examined at the example of the Sultanate of Oman.
Holes in the Dike: The Global Savings Glut, U.S. House Prices and the Long Shadow of Banking Deregulation
2016
We explore empirically how capital inflows into the US and financial deregulation within the United States interacted in driving the run-up (and subsequent decline) in US housing prices over the period 1990-2010. To obtain an ex ante measure of financial liberalization, we focus on the history of interstate-banking deregulation during the 1980s, i.e. prior to the large net capital inflows into the US from China and other emerging economies. Our results suggest a long shadow of deregulation: in states that opened their banking markets to out-of-state banks earlier, house prices were more sensitive to capital inflows. We provide evidence that global imbalances were a major positive funding sh…
Investor Protection in Times of Crisis of Financial Institutions in Spain in Light of EU Regulations
2016
The objective of this paper is to explore selected strategies of countering the financial crisis in Spain, with a special focus on the issue of investor protection. I will attempt to highlight good solutions and the most significant mistakes made in the struggle to tackle the crisis, based on comments provided by experts in the field - both scholars and practitioners. Owing to the great complexity of the subject, in this work I focus on aspects connected with the restructuring of Spanish banking institutions and with the deposit guarantee system, and I discuss the efforts to overcome the financial crisis in Spain within the context of new challenges to public law (especially in light of the…
Latvijas eksporta veicināšanas politika: eksporta veicināšanas pasākumu novērtējums
2016
Bakalaura darbs “Latvijas eksporta veicināšanas politika: eksporta veicināšanas pasākumu novērtējums” izstrādāts ar mērķi identificēt šīs politikas priekšrocības un trūkumus un izvirzīt priekšlikumus eksporta veicināšanas pasākumu uzlabošanai. Pašlaik notiekoša ekonomiskās attīstības paradigmas maiņa paredz pāreju uz ilgtspējīgu attīstības modeli, kurā galvenais attīstības dzinējspēks ir eksports. Latvijas ekonomiskās politikas mērķis ir kāpināt ražīgo potenciālu, kas nav iespējams bez spējas konkurēt iekšējos un ārējos produktu tirgos, kā arī būt konkurētspējīgiem kapitāla piesaistē. Bakalaura darbā aptverti ekonomiskās politikas teorētiskie aspekti, izpētīta ārējās tirdzniecības regulēšan…
Russia’s economy in the global crisis: An assessment of the Medvedev era
2011
This article analyses the state of the Russian economy during Dmitri Medvedev’s term of office (March 2008 to the present). The author begins by examining the country’s situation before the new president officially took up his post, after which the article goes on to describe the reforms the government subsequently attempted to bring in. These reforms were determined by the outbreak of a severe economic crisis that commenced in 2008 and which highlighted the structural problems ailing Russia’s economy. These problems, which the author describes in detail, may turn into very grave obstacles to the country’s sustained, long-term growth. Finally, the author describes the essential economic sec…
New Challenges in Economic and Business Development – 2021: Post-Crisis Economy: PROCEEDINGS; (13th International Scientific Conference, May 14, 2021…
2021
This year's conference was devoted to the challenges related to the post-crisis economic development. Crisis is often seen as an opportunity, stimulating change of traditional approaches and often leading to creation of new systems. The objective of the conference is to provide a platform/opportunity for scholars, researchers and professionals from different disciplinary backgrounds to meet, exchange ideas, findings, research results and discuss challenges and prospects for economic and business development.