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shift at an enormous speed; and above all, religion and family values can be an important assett in the stability of … research uses data from the World Values Survey project to study the relationship between religion, denominations and economic … original 30 variables and the newly derived factor analytical dimensions: a) economic permissiveness b) traditional religion c …
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shift at an enormous speed; and above all, religion and family values can be an important assett in the stability of … research uses data from the World Values Survey project to study the relationship between religion, denominations and economic … original 30 variables and the newly derived factor analytical dimensions: a) economic permissiveness b) traditional religion c …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275133
Do food prices cause political unrest? Throughout history, riots appear to have frequently broken out as a consequence of high food prices. This paper studies the impact of food prices on political unrest using monthly data on food prices at the international level. Because food prices and...
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The waves of the Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria, and any other country that may follow, is considered a unique phenomenon worth studying in view of the pre and post revolution events and effects on all sectors of the national economy, as well as their interlocking effects...
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Rawls and Wresinski are both concerned about the poor, but their approaches regarding what is needed to achieve social justice are very different. This paper focuses on the issue of the knowledge and motivation necessary to fight poverty. We suggest that the Wresinski approach advocating an...
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Is justice individualistic or both individualistic andsocial? Opposite views on this question include von Hayek, who said that `social justice' was an oxymoron, and the late Holy Father who, in Sollicitudo Rei Socialis said that some socio-economic institutions can have`structures of sin' in...
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In this paper, which was delivered as the V.V. Giri Memorial Lecture at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Indian Society of Labour Economics (IJLE), the author presents a vision for building a humane and just society in which the rights of working people are heard and respected. He argues that this...
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different with Islamic patterns of rural communities? Variation in Islam is an interesting challenge to be answered. Islam, even … in aspects substance, namely spirituality, is still a historical thing. The substance of Islam manifested and expressed … in public life. When embodied in aspects of life, the manifestation and expression became a tradition. The model Islam as …
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Iran in the post sanctions era. The aim of this paper is to find these mentioned relationships by using the Johanesen … cointegration approach, the VECM Granger causality test, Generalized impulse responses functions and variance decomposition in Iran …-renewable energy consumption to economic growth in Iran. The variance decomposition highlights that economic growth changes are …
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This paper uses the Dornbusch and Edwards (1990) analytical framework to investigate the macroeconomic populism in Iran …
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