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Water issues impact on security at the various levels, albeit most directly on ‘human security’. Hence, it is a potential source of conflict. Following a prelude of water and ‘the human condition’, the paper presents an analytical survey of the various aspects of the...
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We study from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective how a network of military alliances and enmities affects the intensity of a conflict. The model combines elements from network theory and from the politico-economic theory of conflict. We obtain a closed-form characterization of the...
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Trotz der nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges erwarteten Friedensdividende erreichte die Zahl der Kriege und bewaffneten Konflikte Anfang der 1990er-Jahre eine Rekordzahl, wobei über 90 Prozent der Kriege und Konflikte in der so genannten Dritten Welt ausgetragen wurden. Durch diese Entwicklung,...
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Kosovo had been a net exporter - at least of some - fruit and vegetables in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia … position of Kosovo's horticultural sector seems rather weak at the moment. …Vor dem Bürgerkrieg in der ehemaligen Bundesrepublik Jugoslawien war der Kosovo ein Netto-Exporteur von - zumindest …
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The current publication covers Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99, the FYR Macedonia … agriculture and agricultural policy in Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99... 123, Muhedin Nushi; CHAPTER 6: Review of agriculture and …
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, and Kosovo. Unlike nationals of Albania, whence exit was near impossible, citizens of Macedonia2 and Kosovo, being …
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Kosovo's small economy substantially relies on money from abroad: an extraordinarily high number of migrants contribute … migrants from Kosovo. This is about half of all migrated Kosovar Albanians. However, reliable information on the specific … situation of the migrants and their origin households is scarce. Adding to recent efforts to gain more knowledge about Kosovo …
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Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage … unusual survey conducted by the ILO between 2004 and 2006 in eight countries, including Kosovo, that documents the labor …
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working paper tests this hypothesis, and two related propositions, in a paired comparison between Kosovo and East Timor. The … becoming stronger in East Timor, the same cannot be said of Kosovo, which continues to be plagued by high unemployment, low … growth, corruption, and organized crime. Many of Kosovo's problems can be traced back to the strategy of dividing …
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aims at analysing the impact of migration on rural poverty and inequality in Kosovo. It draws on the 2009 nationally … representative Kosovo Remittance Study. Analyses are based on a comparison with counterfactual migrant household incomes derived from …
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