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An Economic Theory of 'Destabilization War' '- Compromise for Peace versus Conventional, Guerilla, or Terrorist Warfare

Gries, Thomas; Haake, Claus-Jochen - 2016

How can a small group of insurgents believe they can overcome the government by turning violent, even if the government is strongly superior? When does a conflict develop towards a peaceful conflict resolution, terrorism, a guerilla war, or a widely spread conventional civil war? We develop a...

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Institutions and sustainable development

Bastos, Ana Paula; Monteiro, Maurílio de Abreu - 2010

This article analyses recent efforts to create a different institutional framework in Pará State, Brazilian Amazon to … country. The region suffers of, what can be called a natural-resources and green curse. Para state government, knowing its … add-value to State vocation activities and connected 2 million people in 2000km of optic-fiber high speed internet to take …

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Reversing the depressive dynamics of the Portuguese peripheral areas: DEMOSPIN model

de Castro, Eduardo Anselmo; Silva, Carlos Jorge; Gomes, … - 2013

Portugal is divided in two major parts: i) the coastal zone, with a higher demographic density and where the main economic activities are concentrated; ii) the periphery, where a low economic performance and a depressed demographic dynamics coexist. Economy and demography interact, reinforcing...

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Keys And Challenges To Close The Rural Broadband Gap. The Role Of LTE Networks In Spain

Frías, Zoraida; González-Valderrama, Carlos; … - 2015

This paper presents a techno-economic analysis to evaluate the feasibility of a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) radio access network to provide fixed wireless 30 Mbps broadband access services in the rural areas of Spain. The results are compared to those of Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) technology and...

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Methods and techniques for evaluating non-marketable ecosystem services

Baciu, Gabriela Elena; Toma, Ioana; Gârlea, Cristina - 2022

into account at all relevant levels of the decision-making process. In this paper, a state-of-the-art of methods and …

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Inflation and Financial Development: Evidence from Brazil

Bittencourt, Manoel - 2007

We examine the impact of inflation on financial development in Brazil and the data available permit us to cover the … Brazil by high rates of inflation, have detrimental effects to financial development, a variable that is important for …

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Economic Causes of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: A Panel Data Analysis for 2000s

da Silva, Jorge Hargrave Gonçalves; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2010

We use newly launched and some never before analyzed datasets, to assess the recent economic and policy determinants of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. We estimate panel data models for the years between 2002 and 2007 for 368 municipalities in the region using municipality fixed effects...

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Health Programme Evaluation by Propensity Score Matching: Accounting for Treatment Intensity and Health Externalities with an Application to Brazil

Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo - 2008

Brazil, on adult and child health. …

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da Silva, Orlando Monteiro; Drumond, Rafael Rodrigues; … - 2011

rates in China and India. India and Russia's sophistication indexes surpassed that of Brazil in 2007, which signal that … those countries currently export products with higher content of income. The study also indicated that Brazil has been …

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Status and development in the dairy sector in the BRIC

Ramanovich, Mikhail; Ndambi, Asaah; Hemme, Torsten - 2011

Milk production is a very important element of the whole dairy chain. The BRIC countries are among the top 6 milk producing countries and produce nearly one third of the world's total milk volume. A large number of dairy animals and a relatively low milk output per animal show a great potential...

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