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Public Private Partnership In Urban Rail Transit: Recent International Experience, Sock-Yong Phang Dec 2010

Public Private Partnership In Urban Rail Transit: Recent International Experience, Sock-Yong Phang

PHANG Sock Yong

No abstract provided.


Hong Kong And Singapore, Sock-Yong Phang Dec 2010

Hong Kong And Singapore, Sock-Yong Phang

PHANG Sock Yong

No abstract provided.


Policies To Promote Shipping Registration In Singapore, Sock-Yong Phang, R Toh Dec 2010

Policies To Promote Shipping Registration In Singapore, Sock-Yong Phang, R Toh

PHANG Sock Yong

No abstract provided.


Housing Markets And Urban Transportation: Economic Theory, Econometrics And Policy Analysis For Singapore, Sock-Yong Phang Dec 2010

Housing Markets And Urban Transportation: Economic Theory, Econometrics And Policy Analysis For Singapore, Sock-Yong Phang

PHANG Sock Yong

No abstract provided.


Recent Developments In Singapore's Motor Vehicle Policies, Sock-Yong Phang, Mukul Asher Dec 2010

Recent Developments In Singapore's Motor Vehicle Policies, Sock-Yong Phang, Mukul Asher

PHANG Sock Yong

No abstract provided.


Motor Vehicle Taxes As An Environmental Management Instrument: The Case Of Singapore, Ngee-Choon Chia, Sock-Yong Phang Dec 2010

Motor Vehicle Taxes As An Environmental Management Instrument: The Case Of Singapore, Ngee-Choon Chia, Sock-Yong Phang

PHANG Sock Yong

No abstract provided.


From Efficiency-Driven To Innovation-Driven Growth: Perspectives From Singapore, Sock-Yong Phang, Kim Song Tan Dec 2010

From Efficiency-Driven To Innovation-Driven Growth: Perspectives From Singapore, Sock-Yong Phang, Kim Song Tan

PHANG Sock Yong

No abstract provided.


Scarcity And Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation, Edward Barbier Nov 2010

Scarcity And Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation, Edward Barbier

Edward B Barbier

No abstract provided.


Ellen Tupper, Tammy Horn Sep 2010

Ellen Tupper, Tammy Horn

Tammy Horn

No abstract provided.


Ecosystems As Natural Assets, Edward Barbier Sep 2010

Ecosystems As Natural Assets, Edward Barbier

Edward B Barbier

No abstract provided.


Infrastructure For Economic Growth And Development: The Financing Gap, Michael Regan Aug 2010

Infrastructure For Economic Growth And Development: The Financing Gap, Michael Regan

Michael Regan

Extract: Infrastructure is one of the most important tools for accelerating economic development in developing and transition economies. However, the benefits are not always uniform across nations; the results vary significantly between industries, and improved social returns from additional investment have more to do with the procurement method and operational efficiencies than the amount of money that is employed. This article provides a review of the role that infrastructure plays in strengthening economic development and poverty reduction and reducing trade costs to support improved regional cooperation and integration in Commonwealth countries.


Money Supply Behaviour In Emerging Economies: A Comparative Analysis, Zatul Badarudin, Ahmed Khalid, Mohamed Ariff Jul 2010

Money Supply Behaviour In Emerging Economies: A Comparative Analysis, Zatul Badarudin, Ahmed Khalid, Mohamed Ariff

Ahmed Khalid

This paper reports new evidence consistent with the post-Keynesian hypothesis of money endogeneity for hitherto unexplored 10 emerging economies. These results were obtained using a vector error correction model to test for long-run and short-run causalities with data from 1996 to 2007. The evidence suggests that money supply is endogenous in five countries, namely China, the Czech Republic, India, Malaysia and Turkey; it is exogenous in Mexico, while there was no causality found in Indonesia, Russia and Taiwan. Thailand showed endogeneity in the long-run causality. Some suggestions are made to explain the mixed results, and we also discuss the limitations …


Toward A Global Green Recovery: The G20 And The Asia-Pacific Region, Edward Barbier Jul 2010

Toward A Global Green Recovery: The G20 And The Asia-Pacific Region, Edward Barbier

Edward B Barbier

No abstract provided.


Economic Welfare, Drucilla Barker Jun 2010

Economic Welfare, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

No abstract provided.


Changing The Rules: Technological Change, International Competition And Regulation In Communications, Ed. R.C. Crandall And K. Flamm, Drucilla Barker Jun 2010

Changing The Rules: Technological Change, International Competition And Regulation In Communications, Ed. R.C. Crandall And K. Flamm, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

A review of Changing the Rules: Technological Change, International Competition and Regulation in Communications, ed. R.C. Crandall and K. Flamm


Neoclassical Economics: Critique, Drucilla Barker Jun 2010

Neoclassical Economics: Critique, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

No abstract provided.


Economists, Social Reformers, And Prophets: A Feminist Critique Of Economic Efficiency, Drucilla Barker Jun 2010

Economists, Social Reformers, And Prophets: A Feminist Critique Of Economic Efficiency, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

No abstract provided.


Gender, Caring, And Money, Drucilla Barker, Susan Feiner Jun 2010

Gender, Caring, And Money, Drucilla Barker, Susan Feiner

Drucilla K. Barker

A review of The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, by Riane Eisler


As The World Turns: Globalization, Consumption, And The Feminization Of Work, Drucilla Barker, Susan Feiner Jun 2010

As The World Turns: Globalization, Consumption, And The Feminization Of Work, Drucilla Barker, Susan Feiner

Drucilla K. Barker

No abstract provided.


Matrilineal Communities, Patriarchal Realities: A Feminist Nirvana Uncovered, By Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, Drucilla Barker Jun 2010

Matrilineal Communities, Patriarchal Realities: A Feminist Nirvana Uncovered, By Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

A review of Matrilineal Communities, Patriarchal Realities: A Feminist Nirvana Uncovered, by Kanchana N. Ruwanpura


Creating Spaces: A Comment On Contemporary Discourses In Economics, Drucilla Barker Jun 2010

Creating Spaces: A Comment On Contemporary Discourses In Economics, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

No abstract provided.


Toward A Feminist Philosophy Of Economics, Ed. Drucilla K. Barker And Edith Kuiper, Drucilla Barker, Edith Kuiper Jun 2010

Toward A Feminist Philosophy Of Economics, Ed. Drucilla K. Barker And Edith Kuiper, Drucilla Barker, Edith Kuiper

Drucilla K. Barker

No abstract provided.


Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives On Families, Work, And Globalization, Ed. Drucilla K. Barker And Susan F. Feiner, Drucilla Barker, Susan Feiner Jun 2010

Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives On Families, Work, And Globalization, Ed. Drucilla K. Barker And Susan F. Feiner, Drucilla Barker, Susan Feiner

Drucilla K. Barker

No abstract provided.


Quality And Variety In The Motion Picture Industry: A Comparative Analysis Of The United States And Europe, Drucilla Barker Jun 2010

Quality And Variety In The Motion Picture Industry: A Comparative Analysis Of The United States And Europe, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

No abstract provided.


From Feminist Empiricism To Feminist Poststructuralism: Philosophical Questions In Feminist Economics, Drucilla Barker Jun 2010

From Feminist Empiricism To Feminist Poststructuralism: Philosophical Questions In Feminist Economics, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

No abstract provided.


Introduction: Sketching The Contours Of A Feminist Philosophy Of Economics, Drucilla Barker Jun 2010

Introduction: Sketching The Contours Of A Feminist Philosophy Of Economics, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

No abstract provided.


Gender, Drucilla Barker Jun 2010

Gender, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

No abstract provided.


Microcredit And Women's Poverty: Granting This Year's Nobel Peace Prize To Microcredit Guru Muhammad Yunus Affirms Neoliberalism, Susan Feiner, Drucilla Barker Jun 2010

Microcredit And Women's Poverty: Granting This Year's Nobel Peace Prize To Microcredit Guru Muhammad Yunus Affirms Neoliberalism, Susan Feiner, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

No abstract provided.


An Empirical Analysis Of The Effects Of Product Liability Laws On Underwriting Risk, Drucilla Barker Jun 2010

An Empirical Analysis Of The Effects Of Product Liability Laws On Underwriting Risk, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

No abstract provided.


Neoclassical Economics, Drucilla Barker Jun 2010

Neoclassical Economics, Drucilla Barker

Drucilla K. Barker

No abstract provided.