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Crime and violence impede development and disproportionally impact poor people in many countries across the world …. Though crime and violence represent serious problems in many countries, less-developed countries experience particular … that holistic approaches that focus on the entire spectrum of a government's crime response chain, ranging from crime …
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new hijacking reported between 2013 and mid-2015. The paper quantitatively investigates the roles of two crime deterrence … calibrate a structural model of Somali piracy, the paper estimates the elasticity of crime with respect to deterrence and …
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police force and crime experienced by firms. Using survey data for about 12,000 firms in a cross-section of 27 developing … countries, the study finds that increasing the size of the police force is negatively associated with crime experienced by firms …
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Improving access to quality education has been the backbone of several development strategies around the world and … education expenditure would drive better access to quality education despite the inefficiencies plaguing public sectors in … general. The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficiency with which public education spending is translated into …
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This paper analyzes the procyclicality of fiscal policy on the tax and spending sides in a sample of 116 developing countries between 2000 and 2016. About 20 percent of the countries in the sample switched from procyclical to countercyclical policy stance. In Sub-Saharan Africa, 30 of 39...
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Just like nearly every aspect of human experience, crime, civil conflict, and violence have become increasingly global … Internationalization of Crime, Conflict, and Violence, offers a unified framework to take stock of the theoretical and empirical literature … on crime, conflict, and violence and to discuss how the international community organizes itself to address security as a …
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Crime and violence impede development and disproportionally impact poor people in many countries across the world …. Though crime and violence represent serious problems in many countries, less-developed countries experience particular … that holistic approaches that focus on the entire spectrum of a government's crime response chain, ranging from crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644752
, which examined the organizational structure for investigating and prosecuting tax crime and corruption, as well as models …
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Although women's police centers have been gaining popularity as a measure to address domestic violence, to date no quantitative evaluations of their impacts on the incidence of domestic violence or any other manifestations of gender equality have been done. This paper estimates the effects of...
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The relationship between violence and chronic poverty has been studied mostly in the context of war or long-term episodes of conflict. In contrast to previous studies, this paper explores whether violence that does not include the shattering of infrastructure impacts the chance that poverty may...
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