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Ethnic Fragmentation, Conflict, Displaced Persons and Human Trafficking : An Empirical Analysis
Akee, Randall - 2010
fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements …
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Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119295
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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?
Dreher, Axel - 2010
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146478
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Peace, Terrorism, or Civil Conflict? Understanding the Decision of an Opposition Group
Jetter, Michael - 2016
When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988126
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Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys
Brück, Tilman - 2010
, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139963
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Income and Terrorism : Insights from Subnational Data
Jetter, Michael; Mahmood, Rafat; Stadelmann, David - 2022
To better understand potential relationships between income and terrorism, we study data for 1,527 subnational regions in 75 countries between 1970 and 2014. Results consistently imply an inverted U-shape that remains robust to accounting for a comprehensive set of region-level covariates,...
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International Terrorism, Political Instability and the Escalation Effect
Campos, Nauro F. - 2009
What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9/11 remain elusive. The careful investigation of the relative roles of economic and political conditions did little to change the fact that existing econometric estimates diverge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764240
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On the Production of Victory : Empirical Determinants of Battlefield Success in Modern War
Rotte, Ralph; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021
Using a data set of historical battles from 1600 to 1973, this paper analyzes the empirical determinants of tactical success in modern war. Based on a reduced form approach we consider key elements of military theory as factors in the production of combat success, formalized in a military...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320536
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The Evolution of Secularization : Cultural Transmission, Religion and Fertility Theory, Simulations and Evidence
Bar-El, Ronen - 2010
This study presents an evolutionary process of secularization that integrates a theoretical model, simulations, and an empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II – ISSP, 1998). Following Bisin and Verdier (2000,...
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Conflict and cooperation in managing international water resources
Barrett, Scott - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000148290