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The paper explores the dark side of economic openness by examining empirically the nexus between the globalization … and exploitation of human beings. After discussing some transmission channels through which globalization could increase … specificities and controlling for social, cultural and historical factors, suggest that globalization, particularly financial and …
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The present study examines the relevance of globalization in lifelong gender inclusive education for structural …, secondary and tertiary inclusive education stages. Total globalization and corresponding components (social, economic and … (i.e., interpersonal, informational and cultural) globalization are also employed for robustness purposes. The hypotheses …
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This study examines the impact of globalisation on inclusive human development in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011 with particular emphasis on income levels (low income versus middle income), legal origins (English common law versus French civil law), resource wealth (oil-rich...
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This study assesses the relationship between globalisation and the economic participation of women (EPW) in 47 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1990-2013. EPW is measured with the female labour force participation and employment rates. The empirical evidence is based on...
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This study investigates the determinants of and persistence in access to weapons using a global sample of 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments (GMM). Hysteresis in access to weapons is consistently more apparent in countries...
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The study investigates the role of security officers and the police in dampening the effect of insecurity on homicides. Insecurity dynamics are measured in terms of access to weapons, violent crime, perception of criminality and political instability. The geographical and temporal scopes are...
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dimensions of globalization, using the widely employed KOF index of globalization. Specifically, globalization is "unbundled …, from both economic and statis tical relevance, the social and political dimensions of globalization constitute the key …
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This study investigates persistence of global terrorism in a panel of 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. The following findings are established. First, persistence in terrorism is a decreasing function of income levels...
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