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Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse
Schubert, Samuel R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
“Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse” finds that an energy resource curse plagues many EU supplier states. This in turn directly affects Europe’s energy supply security and threatens to engulf Europe in unwanted hostilities at home and abroad. The study addresses seven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835694
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Revisiting the oil curse: are oil rich nations really doomed to autocracy and inequality?
Schubert, Samuel R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
There is an adage about wealth and democracy that says “the more well-to-do a nation, the greater the chances it will sustain democracy.” Accordingly, one would expect that nations rich in natural resources, and particularly those with large deposits of oil – a clear absolute advantage –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623493
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Pacification and Gender in Colonial Africa: Evidence from the Ethnographic Atlas
Henderson, Morgan; Whatley, Warren - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
social characteristics of ethnic groups in Africa. We find that the duration of colonial rule caused a dramatic shift in … gender roles in Africa by increasing the relative status of men in lineage and inheritance systems but also reducing polygyny …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118536
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789919
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Policy Challenge of Resource-Rich Developing Countries: Case of Mongolia
Byambasuren, Tsenguunjav; Erdenebold, Uranzaya; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper evaluates whether natural resource exports revenue of Mongolia reduces the interest rate spread using single-sector model and studies the cases that decreased their interest rate spread successfully. The results suggest that the difference in quality of natural resource’s...
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Diamonds and violence in Africa. Uncovering relationships and mechanisms.
Rigterink, Anouk S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper investigates whether an increase in the international price of diamonds impacts violent activity in African countries that are diamond abundant and if so, through which mechanism(s). It concludes that an increase in the diamond price is positively related to violence in countries...
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Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics
Keefer, Philip; Knack, Stephen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Douglass North (1990) describes institutions as the rules of the game that set limits on human behavior, now a universally-accepted definition. North and others especially underline the crucial role of informal social norms. They predict that, like all rules of the game, social norms should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642690
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Knowledge Economy and Financial Sector Competition in African Countries
Asongu, Simplice A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The goal of this paper is to assess how knowledge economy (KE) plays out in financial sector competition. It suggests a practicable way to disentangle the effects of different components of KE on various financial sectors. The variables identified under the World Bank’s four knowledge economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109197
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Togo: Failed election and misguided aid at the roots of economic misery
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
conditionality of aid, which had been emphasised as corner stone of the joint EU-Africa strategy. Recent empirical findings on the … linkage between democratization and economic performance in Western Africa are challenged because of lack of viable data. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789402
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New Nationalism and Development in Africa: review article
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
nationalism in Africa and elsewhere shows remarkable differences both in its roots and its impact, compared with that of the …, Sara, Daniel Hammett, and Paul Nugent (eds.) (2007), Making Nations, Creating Strangers. States and Citizenship in Africa … National Identity in Africa. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199286751, 448 pages …
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