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visible discourses of our time. The complex but enduring relationship between the sciences and diverse world religions has now … sciences of our times. In the light of the many challenges that the world is now facing, a broad understanding of modern … world’s greatest art and literature, as it is evident even from a casual stroll through any of World’s great art museums …
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significant impediment to growth but religious and linguistic heterogeneity have not. Further, while economic globalization has … more from global integration. This suggests the importance of globalization in redressing the detrimental impact of ethnic … ; property rights ; ethnic heterogeneity ; globalization …
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The geographical fragmentation of industrial production alters many of the stylized facts on which trade and trade-and-development models are based, with profound economic and social implications at home. The coexistence of three interconnected dimensions – product, income and finance – has...
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This paper proposes that Tourism Activities can be considered as a technological hub. We will discuss the implementation of the Value Chains Framework in the analysis of the products, services and infrastructure re- lated to tourism activities. The main idea consists of presenting an in-...
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We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...
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Cultural diversity is a “Double-edged sword” for stock market development. The current research investigated the relationship between cultural diversity and stock market prosperity. It was found that that cultural diversity could promote stock market prosperity and the effect varies from...
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When encounters between companies belonging to different cultures take place, it is easy for misunderstandings to arise due to the existence of socio-cultural differences and a limited knowledge of such. These socio-cultural clashes hinder the success of the internationalization strategy, which...
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This paper investigates how ethnic diversity, measured by the immigrants' countries of origin, influences the well-being of the host country. Using panel data from Germany for the period 1998 to 2012, we find a positive effect of ethnic diversity on the well-being of German citizens. To...
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