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Industrialization Under Medieval Conditions? Global Development after Covid-19
Naudé, Wim - 2021
of the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for … industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …
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Local Agglomeration, Entrepreneurship and the Great Recession : Evidence from Italian Industrial Districts
Brunello, Giorgio - 2014
We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of being an entrepreneur before and after the Great 2008 Recession in local labour markets where industrial districts are present and in comparable areas. Using Italian Labour Force...
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Religion in Economic History : A Survey
Becker, Sascha O. - 2020
-country analyses seek to understand the broader determinants of religious practice and its various effects across the world. We …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122110
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Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2013
Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in...
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Six-Country Survey on Covid-19
Belot, Michele - 2020
, Italy, the UK and the four largest states in the US. The information collected relates to work and living situations, income …
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'Entrepreneurs Out of Necessity' : A Snapshot
Poschke, Markus - 2010
"Entrepreneurs out of necessity" identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across countries. They tend to have low education, run smaller firms, expect their firms to grow less, but are likely to stay in the market. This evidence is a challenge for existing...
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Do Interventions Targeted at Micro-Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-Sized Firms Create Jobs? A Systematic Review of the Evidence for Low and Middle Income Countries
Grimm, Michael - 2014
Worldwide 600 million jobs are needed over the next 15 years to keep employment rates at their current level. Governments, non-governmental organizations and donors spend on targeted programs and broader policies to enhance employment creation and the creation of new firms. Because most...
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Women, Medieval Commerce, and the Education Gender Gap
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2013
We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century … Italian cities among themselves and with the rest of the world. The effect of medieval commerce is particularly strong at the … the geographic, economic, political, and cultural differentiation of medieval Italy. The long-term influence of medieval …
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