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The societal aspects of decision making in complex radiological situations : NEA Workshop on The Societal aspects of Decision Making in Complex Radiological Situations in April 199...
Workshop on the Societal Aspects of Decision Making in … - 1998
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The Societal Aspects of Decision Making in Complex Radiological Situations : Workshop Proceedings, Villigen, Switzerland, 13-15 January 1998
1998
In its 1994 collective opinion, Radiation Protection Today and Tomorrow, the NEA Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health (CRPPH) concluded that societal participation in the decision-making process is becoming increasingly important. This was seen as particularly true in the case of...
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Globalization, growth, and poverty : building an inclusive world economy
Dollar, David (contributor); Collier, Paul (contributor) - 2002
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Globalization, growth, and poverty : building an inclusive world economy
Collier, Paul (contributor); Dollar, David (contributor) - 2002
Globalisation is already a powerful force for poverty reduction as societies and economies around the world are becoming more integrated. Although this international integration presents considerable opportunities for developing countries, it also contains significant risks. Associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479557
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Globalization, Growth, and Poverty : Building an Inclusive World Economy
World Bank - 2013
Societies and economies around the world are becoming more integrated. Integration is the result of reduced costs of transport, lower trade barriers, faster communication of ideas, rising capital flows, and intensifying pressures for mitigation. Integration--or "globalization"--has generated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012563619
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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010
innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal … collectivism, in line with recent advances in biology and neuro-science. The effect of culture on long-run growth remains very …
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National Cultures and Soccer Violence
Miguel, Edward - 2008
Can some acts of violence be explained by a society's "culture"? Scholars have found it hard to empirically disentangle … the effects of culture, legal institutions, and poverty in driving violence. We address this problem by exploiting a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464681
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Culture, Openness, and Finance
Stulz, Rene M. - 2001
Religions have little to say about shareholders but have much to say about creditors. We find that the origin of a country's legal system is more important than its religion and language in explaining shareholder rights. However, a country's principal religion helps predict the cross-sectional...
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Ancestry, Language and Culture
Spolaore, Enrico - 2015
We explore the interrelationships between various measures of cultural distance. We first discuss measures of genetic distance, used in the recent economics literature to capture the degree of relatedness between countries. We next describe several classes of measures of linguistic, religious,...
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