Export performance, technological upgrading and foreign direct investment strategies in the Asian newly industrializing economies: with special reference to Singapur

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Toward a conceptual framework and public policy agenda for the information society in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Cultural statistics and poverty

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Innovation and technology policy (ITP) for catching up: a three phase life cycle framework for industrializing economies

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Regional integration and public policy. Evaluation of the European experience and possible implications for Latin American integration

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Sustainable development of human settlements: achievements and challenges in housing and urban policy in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Single stage converters for low power stand-alone and grid-connected PV systems

This work presents the evaluation of different power electronic integrated converters suitable for photovoltaic applications, in order to reduce complexity and improve reliability. The rated voltages available in Photovoltaic (PV) modules have usually low values for applications such as regulated output voltages in stand-alone or grid-connected configurations. In these cases, a boost stage or a transformer will be necessary. Transformers have low efficiencies, heavy weights and have been used only when galvanic isolation is mandatory. Furthermore, high-frequency transformers increase the converter complexity. Therefore, the most usual topologies use a boost stage and one inverter stage cascaded. However, the complexity, size, weight, cost and lifetime might be improved considering the integration of both stages. In this context, some integrated converters are analyzed and compared in this paper in order to support future evaluations and trends for low power single-phase inverters for PV systems. Power decoupling, MPPT and Tri-State modulations are also considered. Finally, simulation and experimental results are presented and compared for the analyzed topologies. © 2011 IEEE.

Fiscal rules and countercyclical policy: Frank Ramsey meets Gramm-Rudman-Hollings

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Technical change and technology policy: the case of numerically controlled lathes in Argentina

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Communication strategy and migration policy; an exploratory literature survey pertaining to the Latin American situation

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The political economy of trade and industrial policy reform in Brazil in the 1990s

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Planning, development and economic and social policy in Brazil

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Peru: agriculture, crisis, and macroeconomic policy

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Market failure and technological policy

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The impact of exchange-rate and trade policy on export performance in the 1980s

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