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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 Latin America

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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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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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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Economía del desarrollo y calidad de vida: estudio regional para Santander, Colombia

Estrada, Fernando; Patiño, Gonzalo; Pulido, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

international market, poses serious challenges to productive and educational systems of the department of Santander, Colombia. It …

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Análisis de elasticidades en el mercado automotor colombiano (2009 - 2011) mediante un modelo logit anidado

Sánchez Navarro, Dennis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

uso particular, y modelar el funcionamiento de la demanda de vehículos particulares en Colombia, entre 2009 y 2011. Esto a … el fin de analizar el grado de sustituibilidad o contestabilidad del mercado automotor en Colombia. This paper analyzes … for private vehicles in Colombia, between 2009 and 2011. This paper estimates a Nested Logit model that takes the …

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Fuentes y métodos para la reconstrucción de PIBs regionales en Colombia. Siglos XIX y XX

Mejía Cubillos, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper summarizes and analyzes the main sources and methods used in the reconstruction of regional GDPs in Colombia …

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Networks information in the civil wars

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The aim of this paper is to interpret the relationships between information networks and the civil wars (Colombia …

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Drug Dealing In Bucaramanga: Case Study In A Drug Producing Country

Muñoz-Herrera, Manuel; Palacio, Luis Alejandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

market compared to countries that do not produce drugs. We locate our study to the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia; the country …

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