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Globalisation, Inequality and Poverty Relationships : A Cross Country Evidence
Neutel, Marcel - 2014
In this research, the relationship between globalisation and poverty and income inequality is determined. A whole new globalisation index has been constructed based on data covering a large sample of 65 developing countries. The index is based on the globalisation index proposed by A.T....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752139
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Inequality, Institutions and Cooperation
Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2021
relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315085
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Monotheism (from a Sociopolitical and Economic Perspective)
Iyigun, Murat - 2007
The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...
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On the Dynamics of Ethnic Fractionalization
Campos, Nauro F.; Kuzeyev, Vitaliy S. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Does fractionalization change over time? If so, are there any substantial implications foreconomic performance? To answer such questions, we construct a new panel data set withfractionalization measures for 26 former communist countries covering the period from 1989to 2002...
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Gender, Economic Development and Islam : A Perspective from France
Adida, Claire L. - 2012
relative to non-Muslim communities. This paper, relying on a unique identification strategy that isolates religion from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108263
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The Evolution of Catholic-Protestant Labour Market Inequality in Northern Ireland, 1983-2014
Rowland, Neil - 2018
Ethnic and religious differentials in labour market outcomes within many countries have been remarkably persistent. Yet one very well-known differential – the Catholic/Protestant unemployment differential in Northern Ireland – has largely (although not completely) disappeared. This paper...
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A Social-Psychological Reconstruction of Amartya Sen's Measures of Inequality and Social Welfare
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2022
The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen's 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from socialpsychological building blocks, reformulating it as a ratio between a measure of social stress and aggregate income. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084076
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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures
Galor, Oded - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978167
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Re-Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy
Tausch, Arno - 2009
This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the Re-orient approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...
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