The E.C.B. gave itself credit for some of the improvement, including its promise to buy government bonds as needed to contain countries' borrowing costs.
The third group, she said, contains countries that continue to struggle with their policy response to the crisis — not growing, and hindering global growth.
It can also contain countries dummies variables.
The sample contains countries that are unified by income criteria as they are classified by the World Bank as high-income countries.
The 4th one is a situation that the EU does not encounter yet (though the EU contains countries of different sizes, but its core countries are similar in size); it is easy to rise up and become a big obstacle.
Quadrant II (low f i /x i and high v i /x i ) contains countries rich in natural resources and whose manufactures, based on their transformation, are slightly processed (low f i /x i ).
13688_2016_83_MOESM1_ESM.csv Party List: A table containing countries, name of the parties (English and local), election dates, party abbreviations, election vote share, change in the vote share from the previous election, number of news mentions, and the link to the Wikipedia page.
The second major group contains countries that have no special guidelines but either refer to international guidelines, as in Syria [ 20, 21] and Iraq [ 22] (C), or keep silent (D), as in Oman, Palestine, and Yemen.
The C.I.A. World Factbook (//www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html) contains country information and profiles.
There's also a section containing country specific information (on working regulations).
