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Insuring peace : index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict
Gehring, Kai; Schaudt, Paul - 2023
conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers … drought-induced conflict. One key mechanism is that insured pastoralists travel less far away from their ancestral homelands … to mitigate conflict beyond difficult institutional reforms and raises the question of how governments can support the …
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Insuring Peace: Index-Based Livestock Insurance, Droughts, and Conflict
Gehring, Kai; Schaudt, Paul - 2023
conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers … drought-induced conflict. One key mechanism is that insured pastoralists travel less far away from their ancestral homelands … to mitigate conflict beyond difficult institutional reforms and raises the question of how governments can support the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377398
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Empirical analysis of inclusive growth, information and communication technology adoption, and institutional quality
Adeleye, Bosede Ngozi; Arogundade, Sodiq; Biyase, Mduduzi - In: Economies : open access journal 11 (2023) 4, pp. 1-21
Using a sample of 193 countries from 2010 to 2019, this study investigates the impact of institutional quality index (IQI) and information and communication technology (ICT) on inclusive growth. The study engaged the panel spatial correlation consistent (PSCC-FE), instrumental...
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Non-trivial factors as determinants of the environmental taxation revenues in 27 EU countries
Castiglione, Concetta; Infante, Davide; Smirnova, Janna - In: Economies 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-20
The implementation of environmental taxation is one of the most important issues of environmental policy in Europe. To approach this matter, the paper aims to analyse the determinants of environmental taxation revenue for European countries. Besides investigating the most explored determinants,...
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Non-trivial factors as determinants of the environmental taxation revenues in 27 EU countries
Castiglione, Concetta; Infante, Davide; Smirnova, Janna - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-20
The implementation of environmental taxation is one of the most important issues of environmental policy in Europe. To approach this matter, the paper aims to analyse the determinants of environmental taxation revenue for European countries. Besides investigating the most explored determinants,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011849690
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The role of technology in combating corruption
Ionescu, Luminiţa - In: Economics, management and financial markets 8 (2013) 3, pp. 101-106
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Cliometrics and the evolution of human capital
Diebolt, Claude; Fouquet, Roger; Hippe, Ralph - In: Wissensökonomie und Digitalisierung : Geschichte und …, (pp. 11-32). 2020
Human capital has been seen to be a key factor for current and future economic growth. In a broader sense, it appears that we are moving towards a knowledge economy driven by human capital, technological progress and digitalization. However, although this evolution may be a new trend, similar...
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A new global index on infrastructure : construction, rankings and applications
Donaubauer, Julian; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014
We construct comprehensive and comparable indices on the most relevant components of economic infrastructure. An unobserved components model is employed to cover the largest possible number of developing and developed countries over the period 1990-2010. We map major findings from the new...
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ICT and economic growth : comparing developing, emerging and developed countries
Niebel, Thomas - 2014
This paper analyzes the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on economic growth in developing, emerging and developed countries. It is based on a sample of 59 countries for the period 1995 to 2010. Various panel data regressions confirm the positive relationship between ICT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458249
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The effects of information and communication technology (ICT) use on human development : a macroeconomic approach
Karaman Aksentijević, Nada; Ježić, Zoran; … - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 3, pp. 1-12
Information and communication technology (ICT) is considered a significant factor in economic growth and development. Over the past two decades, scholars have studied the impact of ICT on economic growth, but there has been little research that has addressed the impact of ICT on human...
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