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presents case studies from Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. …
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Algeria's intrastate war in the 1990s, during which militant Islamists and the state fought fiercely against each other … conditions directly linked to the resource sector with the general conflict-fueling conditions diagnosed in Algeria. It takes … but also enhances our understanding of the eruption of violence in Algeria. …
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This paper explores the use of hydrocarbon revenues in post-conflict Algeria. While the bloody years of the 1990s now …-building efforts in Algeria and identify ways of improving these measures. The resources, which are mainly controlled by the central …-building will only lead to sustainable results when embedded in full-fledged reforms of Algeria's entire economic and political …
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The recent decline in the Federal Reserve's check volumes has received a lot of attention. Although switching to electronic payments methods and electronic checkprocessing has been credited for much of that decline, some of it could be caused by changes following bank mergers involving Federal...
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Since the mid-1990s, the U.S. payment system has been undergoing a transformation featuring a significant decline in the use of paper checks that has been quite uneven across consumers and not well understood. This paper estimates econometric models of consumers' adoption (extensive margin) and...
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Though checks' popularity is now waning in favor of electronic payments, checks were, for much of the twentieth century, the most widely used noncash payment method in the United States. How did such a relatively inefficient form of payment become so dominant? This article traces the historical...
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This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by foreign pensions decrease the Gini index by nearly 4 %...
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Algeria, Mozambique, and Vietnam on associations and vice versa. We focus on decision-making in associations and on three …. Whereas associations in Algeria and Vietnam help to maintain the state's control through welfare provision, associations in …
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of the most important raw materials in Algeria. Because of its importance, it is essential to know its vulnerability with … the climate changes. In Algeria, the vulnerability due to the climate changes is expressed through several aspects … infrastructures, threats to wetlands, etc. In the face of this situation, Algeria has taken quantitative and qualitative adaptive …
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Algeria is one of the largest energy-producing and exporting countries in the world. This has been achieved through the …. This study aims to establish projections on the strategy of management of energy resources in Algeria. The study will be … in Algeria. Then, understanding and analyzing the different aspects of the country's energy strategy (production, export …
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