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This paper reports on the economic and financial reforms in Guinea-Bissau. After a long period of recession since the beginning of 2000 followed by a slight recovery in 2007, the economy of Guinea-Bissau has entered a new growth spurt in 2008. The budget deficit, which averaged 10 percent of GDP...
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Mauritania’s poverty reduction strategy paper is based on a broadly participatory process and serves as the policy framework for the country’s economic and social policies. The focus is to accelerate economic growth and stabilize the macroeconomic framework, which benefits the...
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We interpret the psychology literature on social identity and examine its implications in a population partially … matched to play a reduced form bargaining game. We show that this struggle for resources drives a conflict through the … behavioral player is motivated by the social identity literature. For rational players, group membership has no payoff relevant …
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's willingness to finance a public good depends on their income and identity. Using high-resolution economic and linguistic data for …-based predictions with data on secessionist movements, state fragility, regional autonomy, and conflict, as well as with an application … to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Counterfactual analysis strongly suggests that identity trumps income in …
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's willingness to finance a public good depends on their income and identity. Using high-resolution economic and linguistic data for …-based predictions with data on secessionist movements, state fragility, regional autonomy, and conflict, as well as with an application … to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Counterfactual analysis strongly suggests that identity trumps income in …
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We investigate experimentally the effects of information about native/immigrant identity, and the ability to … communicate a self-chosen personal characteristic towards the rival on conflict behavior. In a two-player individual contest with … British and Immigrant subjects in the UK we find that neither information about identity nor communicating self …
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We investigate experimentally the effects of information about native/immigrant identity, and the ability to … communicate a self-chosen personal characteristic towards the rival on conflict behavior. In a two-player individual contest with … British and Immigrant subjects in the UK we find that neither information about identity nor communicating self …
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We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade …. Using individual and county-level data, we document causal effects on trust and ethnic identity of an exogenous outburst of … intense fighting decreases generalized trust and increases ethnic identity. The effects are quantitatively large and robust to …
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construct identity and conflict which are simultaneously connected to strengthening and weakening internal and external impacts … conflicts, whilst complex conflict and challenges in conflict management are connected to weakening identity aspects. …Identity, in management sciences, comprises a newly popular research topic. This article assesses identity aspects …
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Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
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