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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...

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Entrepreneurship and Reforms in Developing Countries

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

We examine how institutional and policy reforms affect the relationship between entrepreneurship and growth. We perform … in particular on the interplay between policy and institutional reforms and entrepreneurship. We find that the joint … effect of trade reform and entrepreneurship on growth is negative, suggesting that trade reform diminishes the positive …

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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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