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conflicts as well as effort s to establish international systems that would foster global peace and prosperity. Yet, insecurity …
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The present document aims to estimate the quantitative impacts of the current crisis of violence and insecurity on the …), the State Agency of Research and the Public Perception Survey on Insecurity in Ciudad Juárez (EPCIJ, 2009 and EPCIJ, 2010). …
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The paper examines the implications of Myanmar's reforms for its neighbours- China, India, Thailand and Bangladesh. Issues of major concern to the four countries include energy, humanitarian consequences and other non-traditional insecurities resulting in Myanmar's internal challenges.
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Middle-income countries (MICs) are now home to most of the world’s extreme poor—the billion people living on less than $1.25 a day and a further billion people living on between $1.25 and $2. At the same time, many MICs are also home to a drastically expanding emerging middle or nonpolar...
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constructed a BTS readiness index, which comprises innovativeness, optimism, discomfort, and insecurity dimensions. We carried out … ready to implement the BTS system, with a slightly high level of optimism and a high level of insecurity. However, there was … a very weak relationship between BTS readiness (e.g. optimism and insecurity) and a firm's characteristics (e.g. type of …
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In this working paper we provide an overview of two recent special journal issues on violent conflict and entrepreneurship. These are the special issue of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2011) and the special issue of the Journal of Co
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insecurity do not support their theories. If the age of insecurity is dawning anywhere, it is in Spain, Mexico, Portugal, Turkey …
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In recent memory, the United States has lived under a heightened sense of insecurity. This sense of insecurity, which … major areas of American life. The sense of insecurity has been correlated with a level of economic inequality previously … one of the keys to addressing the problems of both insecurity and inequality in a meaningful way. …
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The following study describes for Germany the development of subjective insecurity for the last 25 years. The analyses … feelings of insecurity have changed in society over time but also includes the dynamics of change at the individual level. In … addition the connection between feelings of insecurity and other indicators of well being will also be scanned. What kind of …
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This survey provides an in-depth analysis of existing research on the economic analysis of terrorism and counter-terrorist measures. First the existing evidence on the causes of terrorism is analyzed, then we consider the evidence of the consequences of terrorism and we demonstrate why it is...
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