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Growth and dispersion of accounting research about New Zealand before and during a National Research Assessment Exercise: Five decades of academic journals bibliometrics

Dixon, Keith - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Purpose – University academics are important to the discovery and dissemination of knowledge about accounting practice and accounting learning. This article explores the consequences for the Pacific society of New Zealand of how these discovery and dissemination activities have come to be...

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Does colonialism have an impact on the current language situation in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Buzasi, Katalin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Recent studies show that colonization and ethnolinguistic fragmentation have relevant long-lasting impacts on ex-colonies and might explain development and underdevelopment of different parts of the world. The aim of this paper is to connect these two strands of the literature to some extent by...

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Why Geographic Factors are Necessary in Development Studies

Ballinger, Clint - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper proposes that the resurgence of geographic factors in the study of uneven development is not due simply to the recurrent nature of intellectual fashions, nor necessarily because arguments that rely on geographic factors are less simplistic than before, nor because they avoid...

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Romer’s Charter Cities v. Colonization, Imperialism, and Colonialism: A General Characterization

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

brutal images of failed (neo)colonialism. This essay characterizes colonization, imperialism, and colonialism in order to …, and colonialism. The characterization finds that while colonization, imperialism, and colonialism share strong historical …-city model is voluntary participation of all players. Colonization, imperialism, and colonialism were forceful and repressive …

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Pacification and Gender in Colonial Africa: Evidence from the Ethnographic Atlas

Henderson, Morgan; Whatley, Warren - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We combine the date-of-observation found in Murdock’s Ethnographic Atlas and a newly-constructed dataset on the date-of-colonization at the ethnic-group level to study the effects of the duration of colonial rule on a variety of political, economic, and social characteristics of ethnic groups...

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Political Structure as a Legacy of Indirect Colonial Rule: Bargaining between National Governments and Rural Elites in Africa

Mizuno, Nobuhiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Alliances between national governments and rural elites are observed in post-colonial Africa. In such alliances, the national governments preserve rural-elite authority formed during the colonial era and cede their resources and prerogatives to the rural elites. This paper develops a model of...

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Colonialism and Industrialization: Empirical Results

Alam, M. Shahid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

This paper presents theory and evidence to show that imperialism was a major factor impeding the spread of the industrial revolution during the century ending in the 1950s. Two empirical results stand out. First, analysis of historical evidence shows that most sovereign countries were...

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'As Close as Lips and Teeth' The Daiichi Ginkō and Megata Tanetarō in Korea

Schiltz, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

immediately after the peninsula had been turned into a protectorate. In this paper, we will turn to the pre-history of Korea …

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The Transformation of Rural Labour Systems in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986

The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the develop¬ment of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...

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Socialism without liberation: Land Reclamation Projects in Guinea-Bissau

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1988

One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...

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