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The prevention of humanitarian emergencies
Nafziger, Estel Wayne (ed.) - 2002 - 1. publ.
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Forced Migration, Social Cohesion and Conflict : The 2015 Refugee Inflow in Germany
Albarosa, Emanuele; Elsner, Benjamin - 2022
In 2015, Germany welcomed close to one million asylum seekers and refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, the Western Balkans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255292
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The Geography of Displacement, Refugees' Camps and Social Conflicts
Coniglio, Nicola Daniele - 2022
investigate the effects of hosting refugees in camps on the occurrence of protests and social conflicts, by using geo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208941
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A persuasive peace : Syrian refugees' attitudes towards compromise and civil war termination
Fabbe, Kristin E.; Hazlett, Chad; Sinmazdemir, Tolga - 2018
violence. In a survey of 1,120 Syrian refugees in Turkey conducted in 2016, we use experiments to examine attitudes towards two … critical phases of conflict termination - a ceasefire and a peace agreement. We test the malleability of refugees' attitudes to …, first, that refugees are far more likely to agree to a ceasefire proposed by a civilian as opposed to one proposed by armed …
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Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict : A Critical “Development” Reader
Spoor, Max (contributor) - 2005
Is 'development' passe? Is it merely a by-product or a 'trickle down' effect of economic growth, spurred by globalisation? Will poverty simply diminish with increased global markets? This state-of-the-art critical 'development' reader deals with these and other related questions. "Globalisation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520448
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The effects of refugees' camps on hosting areas : social conflicts and economic growth
Coniglio, Nicola; Peragine, Vitorocco; Vurchio, Davide - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 168 (2023), pp. 1-13
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437825
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Social (in)stability, distributive conflicts, and investment in poor and rich economies
Riedl, Arno - 1999 - This version: September, 1999
A recently much debated issue is why observed investment and growth rates inpoor countries are lower than traditional theory predicts. Empirical evidencesuggests that social and political instability is a major reason for thedivergence between poor and rich countries. However, there is still the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302623
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Destroying collateral : asset security and the financing of firms
Rubin, Janet; Wagner, Rodrigo - In: Applied economics letters 22 (2015) 7/9, pp. 704-709
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Revolt on the Nile : economic shocks, religion, and political power
Chaney, Eric - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 81 (2013) 5, pp. 2033-2053
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World price shocks, income, and democratization
Zissimos, Benjamin - 2015
This paper shows how a world price shock can increase the likelihood that democratization must be used to resolve the threat of revolution. Initially, a ruling elite may be able to use trade policy to maintain political stability. But a world price shock can push the country into a situation...
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