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Economic and cultural development : empirical studies of micro-level data
Sperling, Lena Lindbjerg - 2019 - 1st edition
What a ects the economic and cultural development tracks of societies? We know that large events such as political changes, natural disasters and migration can change a society dramatically at the macro level, but what exactly happens at the individual level? When conditions change, people are...
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Fast-track institution building in conflict-affected countries? : insights from recent field experiments
King, Elisabeth; Samii, Cyrus - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 64 (2014), pp. 740-754
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The elusive peace dividend of development policy : from war traps to macro complementarities
Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias - In: Annual review of economics 13 (2021), pp. 111-131
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Rebel Governance and Development : The Persistent Effects of Guerrillas in El Salvador
Bandiera, Antonella; Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Jimenez, Juan … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
displaced state authorities and promoted the creation of self-governing institutions that embodied local values and openly … state. Our results suggest that community institutions in guerrilla-controlled areas led to enduring land fragmentation and … disengagement with the government. We argue that when non-state actors develop alternative governance institutions, they can lead to …
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Land inequality and the emergence of human capital promoting institutions
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - 2005
distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public …
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War as an Investment
Chadefaux, Thomas - 2013
States often bargain over objects that affect their future bargaining power. A large territory, for example, is not only valuable in itself, but also as a source of raw material, population and defense. As a result, states not only try to maximize their benefits when they negotiate over the...
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Development in Africa
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel; Nwokora, Zim - 2018
The purpose of the chapter is to analyze Africa's economic successes in the past half century, to understand not only what made it possible but also and more importantly what risk factors may eventually bring it to an end or compromise it. While it may not be possible for Africa to alter, for...
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Covid-19 and development : lessons from historical pandemics
Hou, Wenxuan; Main, Brian; Liu, Xianda - In: Journal of Chinese economic and business studies 18 (2020) 4, pp. 385-397
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Rethinking power and institutions in the shadows of neoliberalism : (an introduction to a special issue of World Development)
Kashwan, Prakash; MacLean, Lauren M.; García-López, … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 120 (2019), pp. 133-146
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From fossil fuels to renewables : studies on the effects of resource endowments and climate policy on economic outcomes
Montoya Gómez, Ana Maria - 2020
role that local institutions play in this context. Chapter 2 analyzes how greenhouse gas emissions of companies in OECD and …
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