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Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, Bucharest, Romania, Petroleum and Gas University of … Galati, Romania, under the high scientific patronage of Academy of Agriculture and Forest Sciences "Gheorghe Ionescu Sisesti … struggle against climate changes, biodiversity conservation, enhanced competitiveness and efficiency in agriculture and rural …
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This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...
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Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three moment...
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development and agriculture development where as Eritrea, a young nation still striving hard to develop these areas and thus …
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existing literature on democratization and inequality that higher level of inequality brings decrease in democratization, since … beginning, the increased corruption due to democratization would be expected to increase inequality (Gupta et al, 1998).Then at …
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This article investigates the analytical line of reasoning in D. North’s, J. Wallis’ and B. Weingast’s research project “Violence and Social Orders”, which unifies in an institutional explanation scheme the control over violence in human societies, the equilibrium of interests among...
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The paper explores the link between authoritative media, which is called the public court in the paper, and economic prosperity. Three types of evidence are used. First, arguments of the superiority of the public court over traditional media are provided. Second, a formal model shows a causal...
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Douglass North (1990) describes institutions as the rules of the game that set limits on human behavior, now a universally-accepted definition. North and others especially underline the crucial role of informal social norms. They predict that, like all rules of the game, social norms should...
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This study introduces a comprehensive model of institutional grafting by examining the formation of legal institutions as shaped by three forces: (1) cultural, (2) structural, and (3) political. The model is used to argue that a country's growth rates are a function of the distance that new...
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The purpose of this essay is offer a perspective of situation crosses today regional agriculture, checking some of its …. At once we are in charge of the agriculture, focused in the common content of the national projects, to revise finally …
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