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value judgment that inequality and insecurity do not matter, the paper demonstrates that a better measure of “command over …
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states and examines households' perceptions of the security and insecurity aspects of home ownership and their responses to …
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Living through hunger and physical hardship from infancy to premature old age; living through economic shifts that close factories and strip currency of its value in an instant; living through social turmoil, political upheaval, and war; through it all, poor men and women in communities around...
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The paper reviews attempts to provide insurance against risks afflicting the poorest. It presents empirical evidence on the impact of different types of microinsurance, and recommends the idea of ‘quasi-insurance’—the provision of insurance functions through a non-insurance route—where...
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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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We examine how globalization affects trade patterns and welfare when conflict prevails domestically. We do so in a simple model of trade, in which a natural resource like oil is contested by competing groups using real resources ("guns"). Thus, conflict is viewed as ultimately stemming from...
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We argue that the costs of domestic and transnational insecurity are large and economically significant and that they … not too high. We conclude with a discussion of how domestic and transnational governance could reduce insecurity. …
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This paper proposes an original approach to investigate the influence of insecurity and institutional quality on … international trade. We emphasize that insecurity is hardly comparable with other trade barriers such as tariffs because it does not … affect all firms similarly. We develop a monopolistic competition trade model with insecurity as a random additional sunk …
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