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The emphasis on constitutional political economy has been that new rules and institutions can be devised that improve the welfare of a society. Given the number of societies that are infected with political conflict and, as a result, lower levels of welfare, this paper attempts to analyze why we...
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No systematic study has examined the effect of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace on a global basis. This paper attempts to fill that void by building on a newly constructed dataset (Binningsbo, Elster, and Gates 2005), which reports the presence of various forms of post-conflict...
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This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …
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percent). Since the impact of convergence on the supply side is much more muted, convergence puts upward pressure on world … food prices, partially offsetting a baseline trend toward falling world food prices to 2050 …
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a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world. In the long run, impacts could be much stronger, with global …
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evaluating economically optimal allocations of the world's land resources. A dynamic, forward-looking optimization framework …
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an indicator of self-assessed food security from the Gallup World Poll. For the sampled countries as a whole, this …
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For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world … prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world … classifying themselves at the World Trade Organization as developing account for only 3 percent of world rice consumption. But it …
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world, which does not reverse in the short run. Media sentiment affects mainly foreign -- rather than local -- investors …
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Using unique household level data collected in northern Mali in August and September 2015, this paper explores whether the content of the 2015 Peace Accord reflects the concerns and priorities of the citizens, local leaders, and refugees, or whether it is an exclusive agreement between elites...
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