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Food prices and political instability
Arezki, Rabah; Brückner, Markus - 2011
We examine the effects that variations in the international food prices have on democracy and intra-state conflict using panel data for over 120 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that in Low Income Countries increases in the international food prices lead to a...
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Food Prices and Political Instability
Arezki, Rabah - 2013
We examine the effects that variations in the international food prices have on democracy and intra-state conflict using panel data for over 120 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that in Low Income Countries increases in the international food prices lead to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092514
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A Brief Understanding of Hunger and its Resolution
Giovannucci, Daniele - 2014
Food is one of the most primal ways to transmit culture and traditions and thus has vital and even cross-generational importance for us. Nevertheless, many of us have gone beyond relating to food as a primal need. So, in this age of abundance, food is either under-appreciated as epitomized by...
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Developing Social Entrepreneurship in the EU : A Cross-Country Analysis
Terziev, Venelin - 2020
The development of the European social model rests on the concept of social entrepreneurship. The concept has a significant contribution to the development of the European social economy. Social entrepreneurship has a remarkable potential, through its innovative solutions, to play an...
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Inequality, Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries : Sustainability Implications
Nwaobi, Godwin Chukwudum - 2014
For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...
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Promoting Gender Sensitivity and Environment Protection through Sustainable Tourism Development : A Review
Mohanty, Priyakrushna; Chandran, Anu; Swain, Nilamadhab - 2021
Over the past few decades, the concerns relating to the social and environmental impacts of tourism have intensified significantly giving birth to an array of path-breaking forms of tourism such as community-based tourism, ecotourism, rural tourism, and sustainable tourism. Notwithstanding the...
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Natural Resources, Development Models and Sustainable Development
Auty, Richard M. - 2003
This paper starts out from the optimistic assumption that the basic policies for environmental economic development are … distort the economy so it falls into a staple trap, which undermines economic growth and environmentally sustainable policies … flattening the environmental Kuznets curve). Second, until such improvements occur, environmental policies are likely to …
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Chapter 63 Development Aid and Agriculture
Herdt, Robert W. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3253-3304). 2010
This chapter is motivated by the question of whether development assistance directed at agriculture (agricultural aid) is effective. It argues that development assistance is continually changing as the ascendant visions of strong global leaders interact with theories of economic growth and...
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Who gives aid to whom and when? Aid accelerations, shocks and policies
Brück, Tilman; Xu, Guo - 2011
increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the …
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Who gives aid to whom and when? : aid accelerations, shocks and policies
Brück, Tilman; Xu, Guo - In: European journal of political economy 28 (2012) 4, pp. 593-606
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