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This paper examines the effects of foreign aid type on human well being. Cross‐country regressions revealed aid for education and water to be positively correlated with human well being in low‐income countries while aid for education and health are positively correlated with human well being...
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nature of ethnic diversity and land issues in Fiji provides an insight not only of ethnic conflict, but also of the role of … aid to solve conflict. A discussion on ethnicity and being equal in the market relates to the reason for equality before … identity. The analysis indicates the role foreign aid can play to achieve stability and avoid ethnic conflict for growth in …
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attaining sustainable and durable peace. Conflict and post-conflict situations have a different impact on women, men, boys and … to household relations and poverty. There have been concerted efforts to identify and address the impact of conflict on …
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This article reports on an exploratory study of the causes and effects of conflict within the open source software … project, Debian. Conflict arose when the project leader decided to introduce payment for select volunteers within an all … understanding disputes. The results of the survey of Debian developers show that the conditions for conflict were complex and were …
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landscape characterized with this disagreement. With an insight provided into understanding this conflict, a criterion on what …
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Abstract This paper presents a simple mechanism for allocating a single good in partnership dissolution. Since in the areas of probate, family, partnership and bankruptcy law the establishment of the value of assets is essential this mechanism can be useful. We illustrate its application for the...
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This paper studies a simple two-stage model of conflict in which two players allocate resources between arms and …
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Summary This paper is a brief history of game theory with its main theme being the nature of the decision makers assumed in the various stages of its historical development. It demonstrates that changes in the “image of man” nourished the developments of what many believe to be progress in...
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the fact that migration and remitting are often entangled in processes of violent conflict and political upheaval is often … in conflict-affected settings. The implications of the violent causation of migration, the on-going conditions in the … conflict situations may differ from those in more peaceful settings.  …
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Summary We estimate the association between the unemployment status of young women and the probability that they are subject to violence, using Swedish population register data covering the period 1999-2008. These data contain the highest-level classification of diagnoses made by medical experts...
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