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Population growth and forest sustainability in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Jingwa, Brian A. - 2011
growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three instruments of forest exploitation, the study shows how rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410348
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Does it matter where you came from? : ancestry composition and economic performance of US counties, 1850 - 2010
Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015
The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry distribution for US counties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528617
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Movies
Michalopulos, Stelios; Rauh, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512074
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Roots of Inequality
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
societies can be attributed to variation in societal interpersonal diversity, shaped during the prehistoric Out-of-Africa … from Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337813
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The value orientation of entrepreneurs in challenging institutional contexts : insights from a unique historical episode
Wyrwich, Michael - 2020
institutional contexts. However, most evidence exists for contexts with more or less entrepreneurship-facilitating and stable … framework conditions for entrepreneurship. In both contexts, entrepreneurs are challenged either by external resistance toward … literature is not an artefact of stable entrepreneurship-facilitating institutional framework conditions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012160399
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Exposure to transit migration, public attitudes and entrepreneurship
Ajzenman, Nicolas; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Guriev, Sergej - 2020
Does exposure to mass migration affect economic behavior, attitudes and beliefs of natives in transit countries? In order to answer this question, we use a unique locality-level panel from the 2010 and 2016 rounds of the Life in Transition Survey and data on the main land routes taken by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201384
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Foreign aid and sustainable inclusive human development in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph - 2018
Motivated by evidence that extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998653
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Financing sustainable development in Africa : taking stock, and looking forward
Adejumo, Opeyemi Oluwabunmi; Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; … - 2020
Financing sustainable development in Africa requires financing options that is best for development in the region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294993
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Increasing foreign aid for inclusive human development in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017
In the light of evidence that poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the World with the exception of Africa …, where about 45 percent of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) extreme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668534
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Introduction
Asongu, Simplice - 2018
Sustainable development within the investigated context includes the ability of African countries to meet the present economic, social and environmental needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. A challenging contemporary policy syndrome is the lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872833