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The governance institutions of a drug trafficking organization

Kostelnik, James; Skarbek, David - In: Public choice 156 (2013) 1/2, pp. 95-103

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Poor institutions, rich mines : resource curse and the origins of the Sicilian mafia

Buonanno, Paolo; Durante, Ruben; Prarolo, Giovanni; … - 2012

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Poor institutions, rich mines : resource curse in the origins of the Sicilian mafia

Buonanno, Paolo; Durante, Ruben; Prarolo, Giovanni; … - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 125 (2015) 586, pp. 175-202

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Poor institutions, rich mines : resource curse and the origins of the Sicilian mafia

Buonanno, Paolo; Durante, Ruben; Prarolo, Giovanni; … - 2012 - This version: August, 2012

This study explains the emergence of the Sicilian mafia in the XIX century as the product of the interaction between … natural resource abundance and weak institutions. We advance the hypothesis that the mafia emerged after the collapse of the … soaring at the time. We test this hypothesis combining data on the early presence of the mafia and on the distribution of …

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Political competition and economic growth : a nonlinear relationship?

Man, Georg - In: European journal of political economy 36 (2014), pp. 287-302

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Handle with care : fragile states and the determinants of fragility

Feeny, Simon; Posso, Alberto; Regan-Beasley, Jonathan - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 10/12, pp. 1073-1085

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Good development support in fragile, at-risk and crisis affected contexts

OECD - 2016

New thinking on the nature of fragility and risk shows a shift from a one-dimensional understanding of fragility towards a more holistic approach in which degrees of fragility exist on a spectrum. This approach recognises the need for collaborative, regional and global solutions to tackle the...

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Reflections on the future role of the state in Somalia from the perspective of aid effectiveness

Raballand, Gaël; Fiebelkorn, Andreas; Heidenhof, Günter; … - In: Development policy review 40 (2022) 1, pp. 1-16

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Aid and fragile states

Hoeffler, Anke; Justino, Patricia - 2023

Aid is still an important feature of the development landscape. Fragile states, in particular, have the greatest development needs but due to their poor governance they are the least likely countries to use aid effectively to meet their development challenges. In this paper, we explore which...

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Transforming food insecure farmers from climate variability and land degradation susceptibility to resilient livelihoods

Tofu, Daniel Assefa; Wolka, Kebede - In: Research in globalization 7 (2023), pp. 1-9

water conservation. The results of the binary logit regression model showed that repeated drought, farmland size, credit …

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