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socio-economic systems with potential to cause substantial population displacement. The key concerns in Less Developed …-economic vulnerability and potential outcomes in terms of population displacement or induced migration. So far these relationships are poorly … literature including ecology, environment, and climate change; sociology of migration; anthropology of displacement; and …
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Review of: Internal Displacement in South Asia: The Relevance of the UN’s Guiding Principles Edited by Paula Banerjee …
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has claimed more than 40,000 lives in the last 5 years. In this chapter I document how this escalation of violence has led …
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This paper explores the causes of displacement during civil wars. Recent scholarship has shown that conventional civil … stronger than the other – exhibit different patterns of violence. We hypothesize that, while the mode of violence differs, the … form of displacement should be consistent across the wars: displacement is a tactic of war that armed groups use to conquer …
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This paper explores the relationship between violence and displacement during civil war focusing on two different forms … paper explores the relationship between displacement and violence at the local level in the context of a civil war fought … of population movements (i.e. incoming and outgoing), and two different forms of violence (i.e. direct and indirect). The …
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This paper evaluates the effects of liberalizing access to the space sector, as currently envisaged by the EC …
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We give first a general density function estimator in an infinite dimensional space, conditions for convergence in mean …
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.We demonstrate the effective use of panel data on consumers choices to identify (a) the attribute space over which firms compete, (b …
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I examine the phenomenon of occupational agglomeration – the observation that workers with similar skills tend to co-locate geographically. Extant explanations point to the fact that industries also tend to agglomerate – thereby creating a need for a particular type of employee to...
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The increasing diversity of immigrant-receiving countries calls for measures of residential segregation that extend beyond the conventional two-group approach. The authors represent simultaneously the relative social distance occupied by a wide array of ethnic groups. They use census tract...
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