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) trust, or (3) integrity, foster economic growth. We construct data of economic performance of social groups in Lebanon …
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This paper aims at understanding the dynamics of sectarian violence in the city of Beirut, by looking at the early phase of violence in the Lebanese civil war (1975-90), and the process of dividing Beirut into various sectarian enclaves controlled by the warring militias. The paper aims to show...
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This paper shows that foreign aid in postwar Lebanon passed through two phases with distinct features that have had far …
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This article analyses the forced labour system created in Spain during the Civil War and maintained during the Francoist dictatorship, paying special attention to the economic logic that led the state and private enterprises to draw a profit from this kind of punishment. In order to deal with...
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The Eastern Mediterranean region is rapidly changing. The turbolent political transition in Egypt after the Arab Spring, the civil war in Syria, the emergence of Turkey as leading regional power, the tensions between Israel and Gaza and the never-ending dispute between Turkey and the Republic of...
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accord that ended Lebanon's long-lasting civil war (1975-1990) by dividing power among religious communities. Others rejected … pillarization of Lebanese society. Moreover, Syria's experience is said to differ significantly from Lebanon's, making the effective … whether power sharing could help to deescalate the Syrian conflict and what lessons should be taken from Lebanon's experience …
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' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and qualitative methods we find that political connections significantly …
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'Brain Drain' in Arab Mediterranean Countries (AMCs). We focus on the case of Lebanon using a unique dataset covering young … from Lebanon. The empirical results indicate that youth from non-wealthy backgrounds living in smaller dwellings have a …
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imposition that greatly altered the socio-spatial relations of Beirut and Lebanon more broadly. Solidere, I contend was central …
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ENGLISH: If we look at the literature on the 2006 Lebanon War, the absence of a clear theoretical framework in most … proposal to the 2006 Lebanon War sheds a new light on the causes of this armed conflict. This work establishes that, unlike …
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