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Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
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India has a combination of religious, caste and linguistic heterogeneity incomparable to any country in the world. This paper reviews the literature of how these various phenomena have interacted with the Indian economy. Results are disheartening. India has an entrenched caste system that...
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This paper examines the relationship between religion and home bias. We propose a simple theoretical framework that … suggests that countries interacting via their representative individuals might show a certain degree of religion …
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This chapter summarizes the results of 12 studies that were conducted on the relationship between religiosity and attitude toward bribery. Additional summaries will be published in the second volume of this series, The Ethics of Bribery: Country Studies
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Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...
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We study the connection between religion and political radicalization in Weimar Germany, where the Catholic Church …
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variable examined was religion. Overall, nearly 70 percent believed that accepting a bribe could never be justified. Attitudes … toward bribery were ranked on the basis of religion. The Jewish respondents were least opposed to accepting a bribe, while … the Muslim respondents were most opposed. Religion was a significant demographic variable. Overall, women were slightly …
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Religious adherence has been hard to study because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can shed...
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Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013457703
Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241894