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This paper reports on the economic and financial reforms in Guinea-Bissau. After a long period of recession since the beginning of 2000 followed by a slight recovery in 2007, the economy of Guinea-Bissau has entered a new growth spurt in 2008. The budget deficit, which averaged 10 percent of GDP...
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Mauritania’s poverty reduction strategy paper is based on a broadly participatory process and serves as the policy framework for the country’s economic and social policies. The focus is to accelerate economic growth and stabilize the macroeconomic framework, which benefits the...
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The status of religious freedom of the Muslim minority in Western Thrace (northern Greece) is protected according to the Treaty of Lausanne and international human rights instruments. According to the Treaty the members of the Muslim minority have the right to elect their own religious leader...
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This paper looks at society divided into two groups where personal assets as well as group specific values influences the individuals' utility (positively for own group's value and possibly otherwise for the other group's value). Individual resource allocation problem may lead to under...
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industry, to create an identity specific to the region of Kotor. It is assumed that there is a real determination to set the … explanations that support the construction of this identity and the strategies aimed at developing a type of tourism specific to …
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the former case, such as with radicalized Islam in the West, identity is crucial to the putative terrorist, solving the … macro-model is sketched of drugs production in a conflict-ridden developing country, where it is argued that demand …
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pre-colonial period between 1400 and 1700. There are three main findings. First, we show that historical conflict is … correlated with a greater prevalence of post-colonial con.ict. Second, historical conflict is correlated with lower levels of … trust, a stronger sense of ethnic identity and a weaker sense of national identity across countries. Third, historical …
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industry, to create an identity specific to the region of Kotor. It is assumed that there is a real determination to set the … explanations that support the construction of this identity and the strategies aimed at developing a type of tourism specific to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641281
creates antagonistic and conflict-orientated relationships resistant to resolution. …
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We interpret the psychology literature on social identity and examine its implications in a population partially … matched to play a reduced form bargaining game. We show that this struggle for resources drives a conflict through the … behavioral player is motivated by the social identity literature. For rational players, group membership has no payoff relevant …
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