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Constructing Cidadania: Shifting Visions Of Citizenship In The Mst Settlement Assentamento 25 De Maio In Ceará, Brazil, Alexis Victoria Cruzzavala

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

The social movement known as Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) was founded in 1984 with the intent of agrarian reform in a newly democratic Brazil. The movement arrived in Northeastern Brazil in the late 1980s and successfully organized a group of landless workers in the interior of Ceará on May 25, 1989 to create the first settlement the state had seen. The citizens of Assentamento 25 de Maio, as the settlement was later named, have undergone a unique social transition from circumstances closely resembling forced servitude and latifúndio to liberation. This transition affected the men and women who …

Do Tax Havens Really Flourish? Accounting For Endogeneity In Growth Regressions, Luisa Blanco, Cynthia Rogers

School of Public Policy Working Papers

That tax haven policies contribute to favorable economic growth in tax haven countries is commonly accepted. There is, however, minimal empirical evidence to substantiate this assertion and empirical investigations are subject to endogeneity bias. Using a sample of 155 countries from 1982 to 2003, we find that the standard tax haven variable is endogenous to the error term in a typical growth regression. We offer land area measures as valid instruments for tax haven status. Results based on two-stage least squares estimation with heteroskedastic standard errors and controls for initial conditions provide support for the claim that tax havens “flourish” …

False Profits: An Economics Primer About Americans "Going For Broke" And Nearly Making It, Don P. Diffine Ph.D.

Belden Center Books

Has there been any time in history when government could successfully spend private sector money (by first taxing it), borrow the difference (deficit spending), and crowd out private sector long run borrowing (causing higher interest rates)--all to try to bring about growth, economic recovery, jobs, and stable prices? Should we worry that our government's ambitious spending plans could be like the proverbial drunken sailor squandering his paycheck on leave? At least it was his own money!

Remember Margaret Thatcher? "The problem with Socialism," she said, "is that, sooner or later, we run out of other people's money..."

Sanctioning Policies-Australian, American And British Cross-National Reflections And Comparisons, Harry Savelsberg

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Over the last two decades welfare policies have undergone major reforms in Anglo-Western nations such as the U.S., U.K. and Australia. Central to these reforms have been the revision of welfare recipient entitlements and responsibilities and the emergence of a responsibility and obligations agenda. The essence of this agenda is conditionality and reciprocity, and it includes the threat of punitive sanctions for failing to comply with mandatory participation requirements. This paper highlights the potent influence of the ideas of American conservatives on policy reforms in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia and provides a thematic crossnational comparison of sanctioning policies …

Child Support As Labor Regulation, Yiyoon Chung

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The development of child support policy over the past three decades provides an emblematic case study of the ways in which a new policy that reflects the rise of moral arguments about individual and family responsibility, once established, produces significant consequences for both the economic sphere and political dialogues. I use social control theory to examine a rarely appreciated consequence of child support policies: labor regulation. Particularly, I demonstrate the ways in which the discourse embedded in child support has exalted the importance of work even under the lowest terms, and has deflected public attention away from labor market issues.

Mountain Monitor-2nd Quarter 2011, Mark Muro, Kenan Fikri

Mountain Monitor Quarterly

Data through the second quarter of 2011 raise new questions about the pace and certainty of recovery in the Intermountain West. Even places like Denver, Colorado Springs, and Ogden—which only suffered mild setbacks in the early quarters of the recession—have stagnated in the wake of the nation’s worst economic slump since the Great Depression. Output and employment increased hesitantly in eight of the 10 major metros of the Intermountain West in the second quarter while the housing market slumped to new lows everywhere.

Northeast Ohio Manufacturing Brief, Matthew Hrubey

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

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Economic Impact Of Jumpstart Inc. Portfolio And Client Companies, 2010, Ziona Austrian, Candice Clouse

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

2010 economic impact of JumpStart Inc. Portfolio and Client Companies

Money, Bargaining, And Risk Sharing, Nicolas L. Jacquet, Serene Tan

Research Collection School Of Economics

We investigate the dual role of money as a self-insurance device and a means of payment when perfect risk sharing is not possible, and when the two roles of money are disentangled. We use a variant of Lagos–Wright (2005) where agents face a risk in the centralized market (CM): in the decentralized market (DM) money’s main role is as a means of payment, while in the CM it is as a self-insurance device. We show that state-contingent inflation rates can improve agents’ ability to self-insure in the CM, thereby improving the terms of trade in the DM. We then characterize …

Economic Analysis On The Sustainability Of Slow Steaming In Liner Shipping, Zhou Dong

World Maritime University Dissertations

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The Research On Site Selection Of Dry Port Cluster Of Ningbo Port, Jiawei Feng

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Multimodal Transport Cost Analysis Of Coal Transport From Datong To Wh Power Station, Tingting Gao

World Maritime University Dissertations

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The Research On Competitiveness Of The Shipping Sectors In Pudong Shipping Cluster Of Shanghai International Shipping Center, Yuan Feng

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Optimum Vessel Size (New Maersk 18,000 Teu Vessels) And Operations In The Malacca Straits, Knoll David Brian

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Analysis Of Proper Capacity At Jakarta International Container Terminal, Dwipoyono Bagus

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Analysis Of Chinese Dry Bulk Ship Operators' Operation Mode And Strageties Basis On Voyage Estimation, Jinlong Ke

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Research On The Impact Of Container Freight Derivatives On Shipping, Zhenle Shen

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Strategy Analysis Of Shanghai Changfu Shipping Co., Ltd, Jun Wang

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Research On The Volume Forecasting And Economic Benefit Analysis Of Developing Inland Water Container Transport In Ningbo Section Of Hang Yong Canal, Di Wu

World Maritime University Dissertations

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An Investigation Of Shipping Derivatives Based On Risk Evaluation, Sheng Yang

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Research On Port-City Economic Interaction Effect Between Shanghai And Yangshan Port, Yifan Xu

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Strategy Research On Competition And Co-Operation Of Shanghai Port And Ningbo Port, Zhouqi Yu

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Research On Capacity Development Plan Of Wenzhou Shipping Company, Xinlei Chen

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Study On Ship Investment Risk : Uo Company As An Example, Yichen Chen

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Research On Empty Container Allocation Problem Of Small-Scale Liner Shipping Company In China, Jiaojiao Zheng

World Maritime University Dissertations

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The Research On Ship Financing Lease Mode And Risk Prevention, Yang Liu

World Maritime University Dissertations

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The Study On The Optimization For Coscon Fleet Deployment In The Asia-Europe Lane, Zhihao Lin

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Process Optimization In Freight Forwarding Industry, Xiaohua Shi

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Research On Competitiveness Analysis Of Chinese Shipping Companies : With The Cpm Company As An Example, Qing Wang

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Research On The Fluctuation And Forecasting Of International Dry Bulk Shipping Market Cycle Based On Rocet, Qianmo Zhang

World Maritime University Dissertations

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