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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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Homicide and social media : global empirical evidence
Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019
This study investigates the relationship between social media and homicide in a cross section of 148 countries for the … Ordinary Least Squares and Tobit regressions show a negative relationship between Facebook penetration and the homicide rate …. The negative relationship is driven by the 75th quantile of the conditional distribution of the homicide rate. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058452
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Resource dependence and armed violence : impact on sustainability in developing countries
Carbonnier, Gilles; Wagner, Natascha - In: Defence and peace economics 26 (2015) 1, pp. 115-132
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Scientific advancements in illegal drugs production and institutional responses : new psychoactive substances, self-harm, and violence inside prisons
D'Este, Rocco - 2022
seizures, random mandatory drug test results, various measures of harm, violence, and causes of death. I first document a large … increase in NPS availability and an alarming correlation with the steep rise in harm and violence behind bars. I then evaluate … in violence, self-harm, and suicides following the law. Collectively, the findings suggest unwarranted responses to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187198
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Trade and Geography in the Economic Origins of Islam : Theory and Evidence
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2010
This research examines the economic origins of Islam and uncovers two empirical regularities. First, Muslim countries, virtual countries and ethnic groups, exhibit highly unequal regional agricultural endowments. Second, Muslim adherence is systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137863
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Oil Price Shocks, Protest and the Shadow Economy : Is there a Mitigation Effect?
Ishak, Phoebe W. - 2020
In this paper, we study the impact of exogenous variations of international oil prices on the incidence of protest, while exploring the role of the shadow economy as a mitigating factor. We find that oil price shocks are negatively associated with protests, but the effect is less severe the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839829
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Causes and Barriers to Increases in Economic Freedom
March, Raymond - 2015
We investigate the causes of increases in economic freedom by examining a cross-section of countries from 1990-2010. We find that higher initial GNI per capita is associated with larger subsequent increases in economic freedom. We also found countries are less likely to improve their freedom the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023796
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Oil Wealth and Property Rights
Soysa, Indra - 2020
We empirically examine the impact of oil wealth on property rights protection for a sample of 156 countries between 1960 and 2014. We find that higher levels of oil wealth result in weaker private property rights. This result is robust to different instrumental-variable approaches and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832191
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Trade and geography in the origins and spread of Islam
Michalopulos, Stelios; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2012
This research examines the economic origins and spread of Islam in the Old World and uncovers two empirical regularities. First, Muslim countries and ethnic groups exhibit highly unequal regional agricultural endowments. Second, Muslim adherence is systematically higher along the pre-Islamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009633857
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Trade and Geography in the Economic Origins of Islam : Theory and Evidence
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2010
This research examines the economic origins of Islam and uncovers two empirical regularities. First, Muslim countries, virtual countries and ethnic groups, exhibit highly unequal regional agricultural endowments. Second, Muslim adherence is systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194832