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The Role of Freedom, Growth and Religion in the Taste for Revolution
Pezzini, Silvia; MacCulloch, Robert - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003
economic development. This paper takes a new approach to provide an answer by using micro-data based on surveys of … and year fixed effects, more freedom and economic growth both reduce revolutionary support. Losing one level of freedom … amount requires adding 14 percentage points onto the GDP growth rate. Being Muslim in a free country has no effect on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005577162
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Soviet Development in World-Historical Perspective, from <i>Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution</i>
Allen, Robert C. - Princeton University Press
wheat exports, modern economic growth proved elusive. But growth was rapid from 1928 to the 1970s--due to successful Five … Year Plans. Notwithstanding the horrors of Stalinism, the building of heavy industry accelerated growth during the 1930s … education of women and their employment outside the home also facilitated growth. While highlighting the previously …
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Electoral proximity, political violence, and personal wellbeing : an experimental analysis in West Africa
Doces, John - In: Economics & politics 36 (2024) 1, pp. 373-397
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The Arab region : development without democracya
Makdisi, Samir A. - In: Scottish journal of political economy : the journal of … 69 (2022) 1, pp. 23-36
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Wartime governance and state-building trajectories in post-conflict societies
Justino, Patricia - 2022
To date, there is limited understanding about the consequences of wartime dynamics for post-war state-building processes. This paper explores one such dynamics-the forms of governance exercised by armed groups during wartime-and proposes a theoretical framework outlining how forms of wartime...
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Development challenges and solutions after the Arab Spring
Kadri, Ali (ed.) - 2016
Introduction: Arab Development via the Channels of War and Oil / A. Kadri. - PART I: POLITICAL ECONOMY. - 1. Egypt … Makdisi. - 4. Transcending Neoliberalism through Pro-Poor and Democratic Economic Development Strategies / Alfredo Saad Filho … Agrarian Questions / Ray Bush. - PART IV: TWO CASES OF DEVELOPMENT UNDER CONFLICT. - 9. The Political Economy of Palestinian …
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The limits to growth of buen vivir socialism : Ecuador's alternative development model from 2007 to 2017
García-García, Aurelio - In: History of economic thought and policy 11 (2022) 1, pp. 25-59
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Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Demokratie: Ist Demokratie ein Wohlstandsmotor oder ein Wohlstandsprodukt?
Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Praktisch alle wirtschaftlich entwickelten Länder der Welt sind demokratisch. Sind demokratische Strukturen also kausal für wirtschaftlichen Wohlstand und Wachstum? Oder ist es vielmehr der wirtschaftliche Entwicklungsstand eines Landes, der eine Demokratie erst ermöglicht? Dieser Artikel...
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Agricultural productivity and trade: Argentina and the U.S.A.
Chichilnisky, Graciela; McLeod, D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1984
We study labor productivity in agriculture within a two-region, two factor and two commodity economy. Increases in productivity can lead to higher or to lower agricultural prices, depending on the internal structure of the economy. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for either outcome;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836911
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The scientist and the church
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
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