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An extensive literature debates the causes and consequences of the desegregation of American schools in the twentieth century. Despite the social importance of desegregation and the magnitude of the literature, we have lacked a comprehensive accounting of the basic facts of school desegregation....
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This paper investigates progress in reducing the high level of racial stratification of occupations after apartheid in …
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, covering the apartheid and post-apartheid eras. We use these data to provide a broad baseline about job duration in South … market segmentation in South Africa. The influence of apartheid-era labour market policy on restricting the freedom of …
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the purported practices of apartheid by Israel. We gauge the impact of Israeli policies on Palestinian basic needs using a … apartheid regime. This work could serve as evidence in prospective legal proceedings. …
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Die Staaten Osteuropas haben seit dem Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs ausgehend von einer institutionell recht homogenen Situation eine sehr heterogene Entwicklung genommen. Diese Heterogenität bezieht sich nicht nur auf einige zentrale makroökonomische Größen, sondern insb. auch auf die Ebene...
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We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version of Acemoglu and Robinson's [American Economic Review 91, 2001] model of political transitions to show how the anticipation of new loans from international financial...
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The notion that economic development in African states requires minimal levels of security has become widely accepted in the international development community. Reforming non-functioning policing systems is an important step toward achieving security, yet the experience of changing policing...
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Tanzania has been a relative success story in Africa in terms of political reform. While foreign aid has helped strengthen institutions that advance accountability, it simultaneously supports a status quo that undermines accountability and democratization. This study first explores the ways in...
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This paper studies empirically the effects of and the interactions amongst economic and political liberalizations. Economic liberalizations are measured by a widely used indicator that captures the scope of the market in the economy, and in particular of policies towards freer international...
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Es entspricht einer gängigen Meinung, dass ?die Politik? schlecht funktioniert. Politiker genießen nur eine mäßige Wertschätzung. Die Parteien sind auch für politisch engagierte Bürger als Plattform für eigene Aktivitäten zunehmend unattraktiv geworden und werden eher als notwendiges...
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