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The effect of early childhood education and care services on the social integration of refugee families
Gambaro, Ludovica; Neidhöfer, Guido; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2020
Devising appropriate policy measures for the integration of refugees is high on the agenda of many governments. This … paper focuses on the social integration of families seeking asylum in Germany between 2013 and 2016. Exploiting regional … parents' integration. We find a significant and substantial positive effect, in particular on the social integration of …
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Deportations and the roots of gang violence in Central America
Ambrosius, Christian - 2018 - This version: June 17th 2018
El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala count among today's most violent countries of the world. Qualitative research has claimed that large-scale deportations of Central American convicts have played an important role for the spread of gangs and rampant violence in the region. Using a novel...
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Economic development, empowerment and NGOs : some observations and suggestions
Alam, Barkat - 1995
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NGOs : an alternative development strategy?
Alam, Barkat - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000608124
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Foreign agents? : natural resources & the political economy of civil society
Breyel, Corinna; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2016
Resource-rich dictatorships are more inclined to repress civil society than others. In this paper, we identify a tradeoff between political rents from natural resources and the organizational density of civil society. This organizational density determines the extent to which citizens can...
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The IMF to the rescue : did the euro area benefit from the fund's experience in crisis fighting?
Dullien, Sebastian; Fritz, Barbara; Mühlich, Laurissa - 2016
The paper analyses how the IMF brought its experience gained in emerging market sovereign debt crises in the troika’s handling of the euro crisis. We link models of multiple equilibria with the IMF's experience made in Latin American crises in the 2000s. We examine subsequent changes in the...
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Does regionalism affect trade liberalization towards non-members?
Estevadeordal, Antoni (contributor);  … - 2008
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Regional payment systems : a comparative perspective on Europe and the developing world
Fritz, Barbara; Biancareli, André; Mühlich, Laurissa - 2012
The current global financial "non-system" is marked by instability. In the absence of global solutions, a series of regional arrangements of monetary cooperation have been emerging to cope with such instability. The paper focuses on regional payment systems as an initial step of regional...
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Left, right, left : income and political dynamics in transition economies
Morrow, John; Carter, Michael R. - 2012
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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2016
Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents ́and childrenś economic well-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between and within country setup, using harmonized micro data from 18 Latin...
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