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The Mexican oil boom was characterized by a period of high investment, followed by capital flight. The private sector and households responded to the 1977-1981 windfall by attaining high savings rates. On the other hand, the Mexican government, the proprietor of the state oil company and the...
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common language is used, and an inferential step where the receiver may either trust the message's literal meaning or …
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, widespread crime has the potential to weaken trust between citizens and institutions, undermine government reform efforts, and … become an obstacle to development. Yet, the impact of crime on trust remains relatively unexplored in the literature. This … paper analyzes the potential interrelationship between individual victimization and several measures of trust, including …
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, widespread crime has the potential to weaken trust between citizens and institutions, undermine government reform efforts, and … become an obstacle to development. Yet, the impact of crime on trust remains relatively unexplored in the literature. This … paper analyzes the potential interrelationship between individual victimization and several measures of trust, including …
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trust in laboratory games. The paper employs experimental data for representative samples of individuals in four Latin … American capital cities (Bogota, Lima, Montevideo, and San Jose), finding that participation in welfare programs damage trust … the notion that low take-up rates may be due to stigma linked with trust and social capital, rather than transaction costs. …
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This paper examines the association between trust and community involvement with fear of crime. Fear of crime is … –propensity score single difference- calculation. We find that while trust matters participation generally does not for fear …
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Although science has unlocked the secrets of the human genome, the causes of social and economic development remain stubbornly enigmatic. Why do some countries adopt new technologies more readily than others? Why does income inequality persist in some regions--even in the face of rapid economic...
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Although science has unlocked the secrets of the human genome, the causes of social and economic development remain stubbornly enigmatic. Why do some countries adopt new technologies more readily than others? Why does income inequality persist in some regions--even in the face of rapid economic...
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