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Drought and civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa
Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphael - 2010
Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008747636
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A fresh look at whistleblower rewards
Nyreröd, Theo; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2021
Recent years have seen a rapid increase in legislation governing, protecting, and rewarding whistleblowers. Whereas the EU recently enacted a Directive protecting whistleblowers, the US has gone one step further long ago, not only protecting them but also offering substantial monetary rewards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012594675
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Liberation technology : mobile phones and political mobilization in Africa
Manacorda, Marco; Tesei, Andrea - 2016
Can digital information and communication technology (ICT) foster mass political mobilization? We use a novel geo-referenced dataset for the entire African continent between 1998 and 2012 on the coverage of mobile phone signal together with geo-referenced data from multiple sources on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441476
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Digitalization for energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa : challenges, opportunities and potential business models
Mazzoni, Davide - 2019
collection, are already giving a big contribution in fostering the access to electricity and clean cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa …. This paper gives an overview on the actual state of energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa and the current technologies used … Africa, financial aspects and market analysis. The perspective of both companies and end-users have been considered here. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011980678
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Calling for nexus thinking in Africa's energy planning
De Strasser, Lucia - 2017
competition. The situation in Africa is particularly problematic, as the continent lags behind all others in terms of quality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695464
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Two views on institutions and development: the grand transition vs the primacy of institutions
Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2007
two views. Property rights do affect development as suggested by the PoI. However, democracy is mainly an effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265602
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Democracy, property rights, income equality, and corruption
Bin Dong; Torgler, Benno - 2011
This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a … political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights … equality which shows that corruption is a nonlinear function of these variables. The results indicate that democracy will work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008808082
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An empirical contribution to the debate on corruption, democracy and environmental policy
Pellegrini, Lorenzo (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003356694
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Defender, not promoter : the limits to the African Union's pursuit of democratic consolidation
Friel, Eleanor - 2014
Independently of the fact that the replacement of overtly authoritarian regimes in many African countries appeared to presage fundamental political change, a closer examination of democratic trends since the establishment of the African Union (AU) paints a less promising picture. In this paper,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496295
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Towards common principles and benchmarks of regional integration?
Apostolov, Mario - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233077