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Gov-arrrgh-nance : Jolly Rogers and Dodgy Rulers
Groot, Olaf J. de; Shortland, Anja - 2010
a unique insight into crime in badly governed countries which were systematically excluded from previous analyses. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009267842
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Modern day slavery : what drives human trafficking in Europe?
Hernández, Diego; Rudolph, Alexandra - 2011 - Rev. November 2011
At a time of increased attention on the international agenda for human trafficking, this paper examines the determinants of human trafficking inflows to 13 European countries based on official records. By employing a fixed effects zero-inflated, negative binomial gravity-type model, we address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349163
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Posh spice or scary spice? : resource booms, wealth, and human capital across ages
Boone, Christopher; Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E. - 2024
We examine the impact of a six-fold increase in the global vanilla price on smallholder vanilla-farming households in Madagascar. The price increase leads to sizable gains in household assets and significant improvements in adult psychological well-being, cognitive performance, and optimism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014557627
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Towards an Urban Land Resource Curse? A Fresh Perspective on a Long-Standing Issue
Zinnbauer, Dieter - 2015
Urban land governance is one of the central challenges not just for urban but also more broadly for global development in times of rapid urbanisation. This paper advances a fresh perspective to look at urban land by exploring to what extent it could be characterised as a resource curse problem....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014131832
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Gov-arrrgh-nance: Jolly Rogers and Dodgy Rulers
De Groot, Olaf J.; Shortland, Anja - 2010
a unique insight into crime in badly governed countries which were systematically excluded from previous analyses. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285742
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Improving Governance and Fighting Corruption in the Baltic and CIS Countries : The Role of the IMF
Wolf, Thomas A.; Gürgen, Emine - 2021
This paper examines the indirect role the IMF plays in combating corruption in the Baltic and CIS countries by promoting structural reforms that help improve economic governance and thus reduce opportunities for rent-seeking behavior. The analysis draws on examples of actual experience with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317988
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Anti-Money Laundering Regulation and the Art Market
Hufnagel, Saskia; King, Colin - 2023
Following concerns that the art market is being used to launder criminal money and fund terrorist activities, measures have recently been introduced to subject the market to the anti-money laundering (AML) regime – such as the EU 5th Money Laundering Directive (2018) and the US Illicit Art and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255493
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Happiness and beliefs in criminal environments
Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert; Ñopo, Hugo - 2008
This paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities … correlation between ideological beliefs and criminal activity, finding that crime victims are more likely to believe that hard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278276
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Happiness and beliefs in criminal environments
Di Tella, Rafael (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities … correlation between ideological beliefs and criminal activity, finding that crime victims are more likely to believe that hard … work does not pay and that the government should increase the amount of redistribution to the poor. -- Happiness ; crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794709
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Adapting the Qualifications to the Banker’s Common Law Duty of Confidentiality to Fight Transnational Crime
Chaikin, David A. - 2011
four qualifications to the duty of confidentiality were crafted in 1924 in Tournier's Case when crime was viewed as a local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122040