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Tunisia's development experience: A success story?

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - 2009

Tunisia's recent growth and development performance relative to countries in its region, and relative to countries at … of Tunisia's path to development reveals that the country's development strategy relied primarily on diversifying its … caused fertility to decline significantly are a hallmark of Tunisia's development strategy. This paper reviews Tunisia …

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Spatial convergence in China: 1952 - 99

Aroca, Patricio; Guo, Dong; Hewings, Geoffrey J. D. - 2006

The purpose of this paper is to examine the convergence process in China by taking into account the spatial interaction between factors. The paper shows that there has been a dramatic increase in the spatial dependence of China’s per capita GDP in the last 20 years. The consequence of space...

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The determinants of loan contracts to business firms

Pham, Thi Thu Trà; Lensink, Robert - 2006

This paper deals with loan contracting from a private bank in Vietnam. We focus on the main loan contract features that the bank uses in lending to business firms, namely loan maturity, collateral and loan interest rate. Based upon the simultaneous equation model of Dennis et al. (2000) and the...

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Globalization and regional income inequality: Empirical evidence from within China

Wan, Guanghua; Lu, Ming; Chen, Zhao - 2006

China’s recent accession to the WTO is expected to accelerate its integration into the world economy, which aggravates concerns over the impact of globalization on the already rising inter-regional income inequality in China. This paper discusses China’s globalization process and estimates...

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Enforcing peace agreements through commitment technologies

Murshed, S. Mansoob; Verwimp, Philip - 2008

This paper models the instability of peace agreements, motivated by the empirical regularity with which peace agreements tend to break down following civil war. When war provides opportunities for profit to one side, or when other difficulties such as historical grievances exist, peace may...

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Resources and the political economy of state fragility in conflict states: Iraq and Somalia

Dibeh, Ghassan - 2008

This paper studies state failure and governance in two conflict-states in the Middle East: Iraq and Somalia. Iraq is currently undergoing a social experiment under which a new form of government is being constructed after the passage of autocratic rule. The government envisaged is a...

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The impact of conflict and fragility on households: A conceptual framework with reference to widows

Brück, Tilman; Schindler, Kati - 2008

This paper analyses the transmission channels through which mass violent conflict and postconflict fragility affect households. It does so by pointing out how a fragile environment impairs a household's core functions, boundaries, and its choice of income generating activities. Furthermore, it...

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Conflicts, poverty and human development in Northern Uganda

Nannyonjo, Justine - 2005

The long-running conflict in northern Uganda has led to major violations of human rights against civilians, destruction of infrastructure, reduced access to social services, and paralysed economic activity. Creating peace and fostering reconciliation in the region have not been successful...

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Does inequality lead to conflict?

Dutta, Indranil; Mishra, Ajit - 2005

This paper presents a simple model to show how distributional concerns can engender social conflict. We have a two period model, where the cost of conflict is endogenous in the sense that parties involved have full control over how much conflict they can create. We find that anticipated future...

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Group-oriented values, rules and cooperation

Chu, Ke-young - 2004

This paper uses a game-theoretic framework to explain how collectivist values hamper societies’ efforts to elicit cooperation in inter-group games of prisoners’ dilemma (PD) and draws on the results of the analysis to interpret the meanings of three historical institutional reform episodes....

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