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Major flaws in conflict prevention policies towards Africa : the conceptual deficits of international actors' approaches and how to overcome them
Mehler, Andreas - 2005
Current thinking on African conflicts suffers from misinterpretations (oversimplification, lack of focus, lack of conceptual clarity, state-centrism and lack of vision). The paper analyses a variety of the dominant explanations of major international actors and donors, showing how these...
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Historical prevalence of infectious diseases and entrepreneurship : the role of institutions in 125 countries
Messono, Omang O.; Asongu, Simplice - 2021
This study examines the effects of the historical prevalence of infectious diseases on contemporary entrepreneurship …. Previous studies reveal the persistence of the effects of historical diseases on innovation, through the channel of culture …. Drawing on the epidemiological origin of institutions, we propose a framework which argues that the impact of infectious …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799894
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Gender, institutions, and economic development : findings and open research and policy issues
Klasen, Stephan - 2016
are guided by formal institutions as well as informal norms and values. As this survey shows, there is great regional … heterogeneity in gender inequality in formal and informal social institutions. The literature on long‐term drivers of gender gaps …, political and economic empowerment, access to resources, and social institutions on development outcomes. The paper then shows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518240
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Do we see convergence in institutions? : a cross-country analysis
Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009611843
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Institutions and development : the interaction between trade regime and political system
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2004
This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450834
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The rule of law : measurement and deep roots
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2015
all. Our empirical evidence does, however, support not only the "primacy of institutions" view, but also the important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406570
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The effect of regional entrepreneurship culture on economic development : evidence for Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2014
We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship in the mid- 1920s have higher start-up rates about 80...
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Institutions and economic development : new measurements and evidence
Acquah, Esther; Carbonari, Lorenzo; Farcomeni, Alessio; … - 2021
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The rule of law : measurement and deep roots
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2016
This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668293
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Droughts and corruption
Wenzel, Daniela - 2018
Natural disasters are a challenge for good governance - this is the result of recent research investigating the effects of natural disasters on one important antagonistic force to good governance, public corruption. However, a specific analysis of droughts is so far neglected in this young...
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