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Corporate social responsibility, a recovery scheme in peripheries : the Petronas and CNPC enterprises in Sudan
Shaaeldin, Elnazeer Eltom; Yakkop, Mohd Rizal Mohd; … - In: Journal of academic research in economics 5 (2013) 1, pp. 87-102
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Approaches to supporting local and community development : the view from Zambia
Mondoloka, Angel - 2017
Mining is the largest sector of the Zambian economy but, as has been the case elsewhere, the relationship between mining companies and their host communities has been fractious, without a clear path towards sustainability. The severe social, economic, and environmental impacts of mining have...
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The Role of Cooperative Enterprises in the European Economy
Ilie, Georgeta - In: Knowledge Horizons - Economics 4 (2012) 3-4, pp. 56-61
The paper reveals a relevant dimension of social economy in Europe: cooperatives. Like many other types of enterprise, cooperatives face the challenge of finding the most efficient means to distribute insufficient resources. But contrasting most other enterprises, cooperatives also need to seek...
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Challenges of Formal Social Security Systems in Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2011
The present paper discusses issues of challenges of social security systems in Sudan. Following parameters advanced by … of social cohesion that serves greater role in traditional social security in the Sudan …
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Borderline Disorder: (De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304156
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Borderline Disorder: (De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322535
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Borderline disorder : (de facto) historical ethnic borders and contemporary conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306383
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Borderline disorder: (de facto) historical ethnic borders and contemporary conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294782
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(De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvín, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358049
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Coercion, Conflict, and Commodities
Cilliers, Jacobus - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2013
esector and allocate military reosurces between conflict and coercion, which captures more land and labour respectively. The … monopoly, but conflict between Spanish and Portuguese colonies escalated during the boom, reducing their coercive power. It …. With land the valueable factor of productions, violence was allocated to conflict, not coercion. …
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