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of a local area development fund. We find that MPs facing criminal accusations exhibit on average about 5% lower … model, these differences depend on the development level of the constituency, a proxy for rent-seeking possibilities and …
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This paper evaluates the impacts of increasing female representation in Bolivian municipal councils on public policy choices and welfare outcomes. By combining detailed administrative panel data on municipal expenditures and revenues together with electoral data, an innovative regression...
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lead us to look at them as an important development agent in any society. Most of times, firms are seen as a black box on … what concerns to development however the measures taken by them, entrepreneurial strategies, and entrepreneurship actions …, have influence in the development theatre. At the same, not only the SMEs as a group of firms (industrial sector) must be …
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In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...
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About fifty years after the independence of most former colonies on the African continent, books on African nationalism again rank high on the agenda of the international academic discussion. A selection of three recent publications demonstrates the advances made in scholarly analysis in the...
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development. Given that some of the most important issues within the WTO concern its impact on poor people within developing … system that better facilitates the alleviation of poverty and development. Against this background, the book examines the …
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African religion on development in Benin and Haiti. …
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Development can be understood from many perspectives. Among those, the one proposed by Amartya Sen states that a … development policy should aim at expanding the freedom of individuals, and this goal can be achieved by the expansion of … development and as the object of study. The Government should guarantee the provision of health services, as they consist in …
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Territorial cohesion and regional development - case of Bosnia and Herzegovina In paper we analyzed territorial … cohesion and regional development in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1995 to 2010. In the context this theme we analyzed …
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in the countryside, encourage the development of new professional activities (like agro tourism, wine tourism e.t.c.) and …
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