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Assessment Of Capital Returns And Economics Of Investment In Khartoum Stock Exchange Market, Professor Issam A.W. Mohamed Aug 2006

Assessment Of Capital Returns And Economics Of Investment In Khartoum Stock Exchange Market, Professor Issam A.W. Mohamed

Professor Issam A.W. Mohamed

Financial markets in a country are parts of modern economic systems and have definite impacts of its economic performance. However, in an underdeveloped economic structure there can be other targets o hidden activities for them. Such assumptions are provoked under totalitarian economic systems that impose cartel monopolies in a autocratic compradorism that own most of the companies and their stocks. The institutional structure of the prevailing economic system avails negative cost/benefits dealings to continue unaffected as the main profits have to come from other resources, e.g., money laundry. The private sector has to be monopolized in order to sustain the …


Perturbaciones Cambiarias En El Mercosur Y Su Impacto Sobre Paraguay, Francisco Carlos Ruiz Diaz, Rosa Ortellado Aug 2006

Perturbaciones Cambiarias En El Mercosur Y Su Impacto Sobre Paraguay, Francisco Carlos Ruiz Diaz, Rosa Ortellado

Francisco Carlos Ruiz Diaz

La mayor integración entre los países del MERCOSUR generó una profundización de las relaciones comerciales entre los miembros del bloque, explicado esencialmente por la eliminación de las barreras arancelarias. El objetivo del presente documento es analizar que tan sensible se ha vuelto este mayor nivel de intercambio frente a las perturbaciones cambiarias regionales. El trabajo reviste un énfasis especial en relación a como estos choques cambiarios pueden afectar la economía paraguaya. La evidencia es clara en relación al desempeño de la Tasa de Cambio Real (TCR). Notándose una elevada sensibilidad de la TCR de nuestro país ante cambios en el …


Urban Resurgence And The Consumer City, Joshua D. Gottlieb, Edward L. Glaeser Jun 2006

Urban Resurgence And The Consumer City, Joshua D. Gottlieb, Edward L. Glaeser

Joshua D. Gottlieb

Cities make it easier for humans to interact, and one of the main advantages of dense, urban areas is that they facilitate social interactions. This paper provides evidence suggesting that the resurgence of big cities in the 1990s is due, in part, to the increased demand for these interactions and due to the reduction in big city crime, which had made it difficult for urban residents to enjoy these social amenities. However, while density is correlated with consumer amenities, we show that it is not correlated with social capital and that there is no evidence that sprawl has hurt civic …


Assessment Of Capital Returns And Economics Of Investment In Khartoum Stock Exchange Market, Professor Issam A.W. Mohamed Mar 2006

Assessment Of Capital Returns And Economics Of Investment In Khartoum Stock Exchange Market, Professor Issam A.W. Mohamed

Professor Issam A.W. Mohamed

Financial markets in a country are parts of modern economic systems and have definite impacts of its economic performance. However, in an underdeveloped economic structure there can be other targets o hidden activities for them. Such assumptions are provoked under totalitarian economic systems that impose cartel monopolies in a autocratic compradorism that own most of the companies and their stocks. The institutional structure of the prevailing economic system avails negative cost/benefits dealings to continue unaffected as the main profits have to come from other resources, e.g., money laundry. The private sector has to be monopolized in order to sustain the …


The Gettysburg Economic Review, Volume 1, Spring 2006 Jan 2006

The Gettysburg Economic Review, Volume 1, Spring 2006

Gettysburg Economic Review

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World Bank, Adrienne Stohr Jan 2006

World Bank, Adrienne Stohr

Human Rights & Human Welfare

The mission of the World Bank is to aid developing countries stabilize their economies through financial and technical assistance. The five dominant themes that emerge in a review of the World Bank literature are: health, gender, environment, globalization, and global governance. Each of these themes is broadly related to issues that consistently influence the larger issue of how the World Bank incorporates, rejects, or impacts human rights.