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Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor: Common Roots, Shared Traits, Joint Prospects? On the Articulation of Multiple Modernities in African Societies and Black Diasporas in La...

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas...

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Limited Information Aggregation and Externalities - A Simple Model of Metastable Market

Gong, Zheng; Tian, Feng; Xu, Boyan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We analyze a model in which agents’ decisions to enter or exit investments are influenced from their individual and external parties’ transaction histories. Actual investment outcomes are unknown to all participants until the end of decision periods, but outcomes do change depending on the...

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Poverty and Social Structure in Russia: An Analysis of the First Decade of Transition

Cerami, Alfio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper has four main objectives: (1) to monitor the rise of poverty and income inequality during the first decade of Russian transition; (2 to analyze the performance of the welfare state in reducing poverty and income inequality; (3) to identify the most vulnerable groups of transition; and...

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The long-term effects of development aid - Empirical studies in rural West Africa.

Bierschenk, Thomas; Elwert, Georg; Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1991

This article is based on field studies in rural West Africa. It concentrates on the socio-structural effects of development aid in the long run, in contrast to numerous available evaluation reports on the short-run effects of development projects. The study reveals that superficial...

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Social structure bureaucracy and corruptionA

Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Using the principal-agent- supervisor paradigm, this paper examines the occurrence of collusion in a setting where the principal has no information about the supervisor and the agent does not necessarily know the supervisor’s preferences. We formally prove the occurrence of collusion is more...

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Political Inequality and the Origins of Distrust: Evidence for Colombia

Alvarez Villa, Daphne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper aims to identify the effect of political exclusion on social capital in Colombia, suggesting social capital …

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The logic of violence in the civil war: the economics perspective

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This article proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the concept of private protection agencies in the works of Schelling / Nozick / Gambetta. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict and changes from its author's scientific output. A...

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The developmental contribution of the Offset Agreements: the case of Colombia

LARRÚ, JOSÉ MARÍA - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Colombia is a middle-income country but with a human development constantly threatened by insecurity. This paper … EADS-CASA in Colombia. Compare Malaysia, the Colombian case exemplifies how offset might be an instrument of development …, these agreements can be a good example. The offset agreements executed in Colombia are assessed with high marks in relevance …

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Modelo de Ciclos Reales para Colombia

Sarmiento, Prada; David, Juan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

model calibrated for Colombia. The model is used to assess the response of the economy to exogenous shocks in productivity …, interest rates and fiscal policy. The standard RBC model is a good tool to replicate the stylized facts found for Colombia …

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Economy and power to tax

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The paper aims to describe the evolution part of the economy and power to tax in Colombia. It also explains the failure … political economy have influenced the evolution of the state. Describes why fiscal conditions in Colombia have affected …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652920

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