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The Economic Legacy of Civil War: Firm Level Evidence from Sierra Leone
Collier, Paul; Duponche, Marguerite - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
This paper positions itself among the very rare microeconomic analyses on the consequences of civil war. Up to now, most analyses on this topic are based upon household surveys. The originality of the present study is that it investigates for the first time the likely predominant route by which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506129
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Designing Composite Entrepreneurship Indicators: An Application Using Consensus PCA
Avanzini, Diego B. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009
Existing indicators of entrepreneurial activity (such as the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, Entrepreneurship … Barometer, FORA.s Entrepreneurship Index, OECD and Economic Commission.s sets of indicators, among others) and several variables … that have been considered good proxies for entrepreneurship during the last decades seem to be unsuitable to capture the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973348
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Non-state Sovereign Entrepreneurs and Non-territorial Sovereign Organizations
Brauer1, Jurgen; Haywood, Robert - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
We propose two new concepts, of non-state sovereign entrepreneurs and the non-territorial sovereign organizations they form, and relate them to issues pertaining to state sovereignty, governance failures, and violent social conflict over the appropriation of the powers that accrue to states in...
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