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Pertaining to the system or range of economic activity in a country, region, or community.

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Jubilee 2000

Economy; International economics

A movement advocating the cancellation of debts that burden developing countries, intended to occur in the year 2000.

kaleidoscope comparative advantage

Economy; International economics

A variant of fragmentation due to Bhagwati and Dehejia (1994).

Keiretsu

Economy; International economics

A group, or network, of manufacturing and other companies in Japan, usually centered around a bank and including a trading company. Keiretsus are characterized by cross-ownership ...

Kindleberger spiral

Economy; International economics

A diagram introduced by Kindleberger (1973) showing the dramatic downward spiral of world trade during the first years, 1929-33, of the Great Depression. Its twelve axes radiate ...

knowledge capital model

Economy; International economics

A model of a multinational enterprise in which knowledge capital plays an essential role. Named and estimated by Carr et al. (2001), who attribute it to earlier work by Markusen ...

Kondratieff cycle

Economy; International economics

A cycle in economic activity hypothesized by Kondratieff (1926) to operate over a period of several decades and divided into four phases: spring (expansion), summer (recession), ...

Krugman specialization index

Economy; International economics

A measure of the extent to which a country's production patterns differ from those of a comparison group of countries. It runs from zero, if the country and group produce the same ...