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This article proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the concept of private protection agencies in the works of Schelling / Nozick / Gambetta. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict and changes from its author's scientific output. A...
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This article proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the concept of private protection agencies in the works of Schelling. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict and changes from its author's scientific output. A context of conflicts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132735
This article examines the effect of social networks by investigating how mobilizing family, friendship or kindship ties in job searches affects the quality of employment (QoE) using a mixed approach. Drawing from socioeconomic literature on the segmented labor market, the authors propose an...
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than the average of Colombia. Moreover, we found periods of economic boom between 1800 and 1840, 1860 and 1880, and 1905 …
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The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
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avoid civil war. Members of the opposition are heterogeneous in income and ideology, and heterogeneity generates …
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concluded Civil War, leading, in part, to the passage of a Constitutional Amendment ensuring the “validity of the public debt ….” However, the Civil War debt crisis was not a financial one, but a political one. The Republican and Democratic Parties took … generated during the period: a repudiation crisis (grounded upon fears of the cancellation of the war debt), a repayment crisis …
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civil war than countries without such resources. However insights from the ‘resource curse’ literature suggest that measures … relationship between natural resource abundance and civil war. In this paper, I propose two more exogenous measures of natural … natural resources on civil war (Collier and Hoeffler 2004, Collier Hoeffler and Rohner 2009) and replicate the exact same …
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This paper reviews how the Spanish civil war was financed. We present new evidence to show that the two combatant … creation, rather than new taxes or the issue of debt, was the main mechanism used to cover the expenses of the war. We argue … argue that the Spanish Republic did not lose the war because of a lack of means. International factors, such as the Non …
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war. This study seeks to apply such methods - specifically, ordinary differential equations (ODEs) - to model civil war …’s ability to make war falls far enough to make peace truly attractive. I construct several different ODE-based models and then … test them all to see which best predicts the instantaneous capabilities of both sides of the Sri Lankan civil war in the …
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