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Nation-Building and Conflict in Modern Africa
Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Green, Elliott - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2011
Nation-building has long been seen as an important focus for postcolonial African governments. However, up until now there has been no empirical analysis of either the origins or consequences of these policies. Here we compile an original dataset measuring nine different types of nation-building...
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Nation-Building and Conflict in Modern Africa
Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Green, Elliott - In: World Development 45 (2013) C, pp. 108-118
Nation-building has long been seen as an important focus of post-colonial African governments. However, up until now there has been no empirical analysis of the consequences of nation-building policies. Here we compile an original dataset measuring nine different types of nation-building...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662478
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Eliciting Survey Cooperation
Kropf, Martha E.; Blair, Johnny - In: Evaluation Review 29 (2005) 6, pp. 559-575
Given the weaker ties to community as noted by scholars such as Robert Putnam, survey researchers should not be surprised by a decline in survey participation over the past 10 years. This research analyzes the use of incentives coupled with introductory themes emphasizing cooperation and...
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Prisoner’s Dilemmas, Cooperative Norms, and Codes of Business Ethics
Scalet, Steven - In: Journal of Business Ethics 65 (2006) 4, pp. 309-323
Prisoner's dilemmas can lead rational people to interact in ways that lead to persistent inefficiencies. These dilemmas create a problem for institutional designers to solve: devise institutions that realign individual incentives to achieve collectively rational outcomes. I will argue that we do...
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Renforcer les capabilités des enfants de la rue. Une manière de lutter durablement contre le sida en république démocratique du congo
Leyka, Mukandu Basua Babintu; Baum, Mylène Botbol; … - In: Revue Tiers-Monde n°207 (2011) 3, pp. 189-206
The francophone bioethics center (CIBAF) in Kinshasa initiated in 2007 a research-action on the basis of reinforcement of capabilities in the struggle against HIV for street children in Kinshasa. We have adopted an alternative model of prevention allowing to better fight sexually transmissible...
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Land Contestation at the Micro Scale: Struggles for Space in the African Marshes
Ansoms, An; Wagemakers, Inge; Madison Walker, Michael; … - In: World Development 54 (2014) C, pp. 243-252
Africa is increasingly confronted with the commercialization of its space. Whereas attention mainly goes to macro-scale land grabs, land contestation and grabbing at the micro scale are largely ignored. This paper analyses how local actors instrumentalize the renegotiation over African wetland...
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The future of artisanal gold mining and miners under an increasing industrial presence in South Kivu and Ituri, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Geenen, Sara; Fahey, Daniel; Iragi Mukotanyi, Francine - Instituut voor Ontwikkelingsbeleid en -beheer (IOB), … - 2013
While the Congolese government is actively promoting large-scale industrial mining since it provides easy rents, artisanal mining seems to escape most attempts to control and regulate it. Yet artisanal mining provides employment and livelihoods to an estimated million people. This paper presents...
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Out of Garamba, into Uganda. Poaching and trade of ivory in Garamba National Park and LRA-affected areas in Congo
Titeca, Kristof - Instituut voor Ontwikkelingsbeleid en -beheer (IOB), … - 2013
poaching dynamics in Garamba National Park (GNP) in the DRC, where the LRA is active. It particularly wants to show how the LRA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122711
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Civil war, sexual violence and HIV infections: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kalonda-Kanyama, Isaac - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) than in non-conflict regions, and that sexual violence and economic …-affected zones than elsewhere in the DRC; (ii) the impact of sexual violence in conflict-affected regions is 55 times greater than on …This paper estimates the effect of conflict and conflict-related vulnerability factors, namely sexual violence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112493
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Civil War, Sexual Violence and HIV Infections: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kalonda-Kanyama, Isaac - Department of Economics, University of Kansas - 2011
the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) than in non-conflict regions, and that sexual violence and economic …-affected zones than elsewhere in the DRC; (ii) the impact of sexual violence in conflict-affected regions is 55 times greater than on …This paper estimates the effect of conflict and conflict-related vulnerability factors, namely sexual violence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799342