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Washington State that significantly lowered such costs. The enforcement visits by the cannabis board officials to marijuana firms …
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distribution of culturally diverse groups affects the outcome. To understand why ethnic diversity affects conflict and economic …
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Social conflict and slow growth are features of many developing economies. This paper considers the role institutions … of property rights and conflict management can play in both achieving prosperity and mitigating conflict in these … economies. We study how introducing conflict over economic distribution into an otherwise standard model of growth can shape …
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We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption …
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Existing indices of ethnic diversity are generally based on pre-defined groups, disregarding the (dis)similarities between them. This paper proposes an index that includes the dissimilarity in language, ethno-racial characteristcs and religion between groups. The resulting distance-adjusted...
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In this chapter, we review the recent literature on conflict and appropriation. Allowing for the possibility of … conflict, which amounts to recognizing the possibility that property rights are not perfectly and costlessly enforced … technologies of conflict. A central objective of this research is to identify the effects of conflict on economic outcomes: the …
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, with their effectiveness in curbing hostilities being greater in areas where conflict is active closer in time to the …
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Crime is a major impediment to economic growth and development in Nigeria despite measures taken to reduce it. There is, however, currently no major statistical analysis of how crime affects economic growth in that country. This study examines the link between crime and growth based on the...
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