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Insolvency and debt recovery procedures in economic development : an overview of African law
Wihlborg, Clas - 2002
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Insolvency Law Reforms in Asian Developing Countries : An Epitome of Legal Transplants
Kaneko, Yuka - 2022
1. Purpose: Analyzing the Validity of the Insolvency Law Model -- 2. Overview of Insolvency Law Theories and Contexts … -- 3. Methodological Framework -- 4. Vietnam -- 5. Laos -- 6. Myanmar -- 7. Introduction -- 8. Colonial Insolvency Regime … in Present Time -- 9. Corporate Insolvency in Practice -- 10. Read-through of the 2020 Insolvency Law -- 11. Alternative …
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Was Weber wrong? : a human capital theory of protestant economic history
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2007 - This version: January 22, 2007
Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...
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Functional inequality in Latin America : news from the twentieth century
Astorga, Pablo - 2015
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The transformation of rural labour systems in colonial and post-colonial Northern Nigeria
Kohnert, Dirk - 1986
The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the development of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...
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Cattle, diamonds and institutions : main drivers of Botswana's economic development, 1850 to present
Hillbom, Ellen - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 26 (2014) 2, pp. 155-176
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Why do some oil-producing countries succeed in democracy while others fail?
Omgba, Luc Désiré - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 76 (2015), pp. 180-189
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Long-term consequences of colonial institutions and human capital investments : sub-national evidence from Madagascar
Wietzke, Frank-Borge - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 66 (2015), pp. 293-307
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Modern secondary education and economic performance : the introduction of the Gewerbeschule and Realschule in nineteenth-century Bavaria
Semrad, Alexandra - 2014
Do new school types focusing on practical and business-related knowledge lead to increased economic performance? To analyze this question, this paper examines the introduction of two types of modern secondary education, the Gewerbeschule and its successor, the Realschule, in nineteenth-century...
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Long-term decline of regions and the rise of populism : the case of Germany
Greve, Maria; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2021
What characterizes regions where right-wing populist parties are relatively successful? A prominent hypothesis proposed in recent literature claims that places that are "left behind" or "do not matter" are a breeding ground for the rise of populism. We re-examine this hypothesis by analyzing the...
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