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Conflict and Resolution (Includes Comments on The Russia-Ukraine War)

Obregon, Carlos - 2002

As I am writing this book, Russia is invading Ukraine, and the world’s beliefs in global institutions, peace, humanism, and social progress have been shaken again. Understanding why conflict is endemic to any social relation, under which conditions it is a positive element in social life, and...

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Social Choice and Institutionalism

Obregon, Carlos - 2023

The main thesis in this manuscript is that a social choice theory based on aggregating individual preferences and values is insufficient to confront the social choices that today’s world is facing. It is defended in here that institutions play a critical role in any social choice, and that the...

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The Economics of Global Peace

Obregon, Carlos - 2022

This book presents the reasons for which, given the globalization brought about by the ICT revolution, both liberalism and realism are ill suited as guides for international relations. And it argues in favor of a third option: institutionalism. The liberal ideal of progress and peace, brought...

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Conflict and Resolution (Includes Comments on The Russia-Ukraine War)

Obregon, Carlos - 2022

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Institutional aspects of economic integration – economic integration and political integration

Duduiala-Popescu, Lorena - 2009

Economic integration is defined as the elimination of economic borders between two or more savings. In turn, an economic border demarcation over which any actual or potential mobility of goods, services and factors of production and communication flows, is relatively low. On both sides of a...

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Migration without borders: the ethics, economics and governance of free movement

Ugur, Mehmet - 2007

paper is that a multilateral framework similar to that of World Trade Organisation (WTO) – e.g., a World Migration … action problems associated with international migration. Although free movement and its multilateral governance are not high … on governments’ policy agenda, they remain the most rational solutions to international migration problems in the age of …

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Francophonie en Afrique subsaharienne: dépendance postcoloniale ou autodétermination ?

Kohnert, Dirk - 2022

Africa is today the most important part of the Francophonie. French is an official or co-official language along with other languages in 21 African countries, all in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Since the end of colonialism and Cold War politics, changes in the Francophonie have been driven largely...

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Brain drain and factor complementarity

Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - 2006

In this paper we develop a neoclassical growth model that aggregates different types of labor skills from strict complementarity to perfect substitution. After having derived general balanced growth conditions and developed explicit growth paths for capital and aggregate labor force, the model...

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An Empirical Investigation of Why Doctors Migrate and Women Fail to Go for Screening.

Okeke, Edward Nwabugwu - 2009

In my ﬁrst paper I examine the impact of short-term economic shocks on physician migration using a new panel dataset on … physician migration from 31 African countries to the US and the UK. I estimate distributed-lag regressions of log migration on … economic conditions: a one percentage point decline in lagged growth increases physician out-migration by approximately 0 …

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Human capital, international migration, R&D spillovers, and productivity growth: A panel data analysis

Le, Thanh - 2006

&D than large countries. The results confirm that having a better education system and more open trade and migration policies …

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