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Major flaws in conflict prevention policies towards Africa : the conceptual deficits of international actors' approaches and how to overcome them
Mehler, Andreas - 2005
Current thinking on African conflicts suffers from misinterpretations (oversimplification, lack of focus, lack of conceptual clarity, state-centrism and lack of vision). The paper analyses a variety of the dominant explanations of major international actors and donors, showing how these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929293
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Ensuring health and food safety from rapidly expanding wastewater irrigation in South Asia: BMZ final report 2005-2008
Amerasinghe, Priyanie; Simmons, Robert; Evans, Alexandra; … - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274139
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Historical prevalence of infectious diseases and entrepreneurship: The role of institutions in 125 countries
Messono, Omang O.; Asongu, Simplice - 2021
This study examines the effects of the historical prevalence of infectious diseases on contemporary entrepreneurship …. Previous studies reveal the persistence of the effects of historical diseases on innovation, through the channel of culture …. Drawing on the epidemiological origin of institutions, we propose a framework which argues that the impact of infectious …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872981
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Historical prevalence of infectious diseases and entrepreneurship : the role of institutions in 125 countries
Messono, Omang O.; Asongu, Simplice - 2021
This study examines the effects of the historical prevalence of infectious diseases on contemporary entrepreneurship …. Previous studies reveal the persistence of the effects of historical diseases on innovation, through the channel of culture …. Drawing on the epidemiological origin of institutions, we propose a framework which argues that the impact of infectious …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799894
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RELATIONSHIP AND CAUSALITY BETWEEN ECONOMIC GROWTH RATE AND CERTAIN DISEASES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
Lucian, UNITA; Oreste, STRACIUC; Traian, MAGHIAR T.; … - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 478-484
The objective of this paper is to further research the already established relationship between economic growth and health by using the results of some previous works and applying them on the recent data, in order to find out if the economic growth rate i
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511891
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Fungibility of Donor Assistance to Liberia: Focusing on Aid to the Health Sector, a case study
Fairbank, Alan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
The main purpose of this work is to develop a case study assessing the recent patterns and impacts of ODA (official development assistance) and DAH (development assistance for health) to Liberia on overall government spending and domestic revenue generation as well as domestic government health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775388
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Diet-Health Information and Nutrition: The Intake of Dietary Fats and Cholesterol
Variyam, Jayachandran N.; Blaylock, James R.; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083045
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Formal and informal institutions and the economic development in Latin America
Pavarina, Paula Regina de Jesus Pinsetta; Cella, Daltro - 2015
'). The more generalized trust is, it is expected that there will be more cooperation. Furthermore strong institutions that … role of institutions; since it is difficult to evaluate the effective contribution of formal institutions to economic … performance. The simple existence of institutions, understood as formal 'rules of the game', does not guarantee that they are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483672
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Institutions and development : the interaction between trade regime and political system
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2004
This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450834
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Institutional complementarity for social and economic development
Bilan, Yuriy; Vasilyeva, Tetyana; Lyeonov, Serhiy; … - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 20 (2019), pp. 103-115
through institutional mechanisms. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between social sector institutions … and basic institutions, taking into account the economic development of countries and the way in which they are formed. A … number of empiric studies confirmed significant role of institutions to provide conditions for economic development. In order …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020000