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Law and finance in Africa [PDF]

This paper assesses how legal-origin influences financial development through regulation quality and the rule of law. It uses data collected after pioneering works on the law-finance nexus to assess hypotheses resulting there-from in the context of ...
Simplice A., Asongu
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The global regime of language recognition [PDF]

, 2012
There is no universally accepted working linguistic definition of a language; the distinction between a dialect and a language is a political question.
Kamusella, Tomasz Dominik
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American Economic Development, Managerial Corporate Capitalism, and the Institutional Foundations of the Modern Income Tax [PDF]

, 2010
Mehrotra examines the factors contributing to the introduction of the corporate income tax in 1909 and of the individual income tax in 1913. According to the conventional wisdom, these taxes were the products of politics, political institutions, and ...
Mehrotra, Ajay K.
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A Phoenix in Flames? Portfolio Choice and Violence in Civil War in Rural Burundi [PDF]

, 2010
This paper challenges the idea that farmers revert to subsistence farming when confronted with violence from civil war. Macro-economic evidence on economic legacies of civil war suggests that civil wars, while obviously disastrous in the short run, do ...
Nillesen, E.E.M., Verwimp, P.
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The Political Economy of Taxation in Somalia: Historical Legacies, Informal Institutions, and Political Settlements

This paper investigates the political economy of weak taxation in Somalia, tracing the historical, institutional, and political factors that underpin the country’s low tax-to-GDP ratio of approximately 2 per cent. Challenging conventional narratives that
Vanessa van den Boogaard, N. Isak
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Memory and Justice: Confronting Past Atrocity and Human Rights Abuse [PDF]

, 2008
This report examines the development of the movement to deal with the past from approximately 1983 to 2008 with an emphasis on the impact of Ford Foundation support, particularly from the Andean Region and Southern Cone office since the early 1990s.
Debra L. Schultz
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“[My] soft, smooth skin… cut deep”: Using Filmmaking to Imagine, Feel and Perform Colonial Natural History in the Museum

Museum and Society
Museums internationally continue to engage in urgent debates about the need to decentre the epistemological foundations of collections and institutions built on colonial expansion.
Sophie Florence Everest
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There is No "Case for Colonialism": insights from the colonial economic history. [PDF]

, 2017
Yannick Dupraz and Valeria Rueda discuss why colonialism is not a development policy to be judged on the basis of a careful cost-benefit ...
Dupraz, Yannick, Rueda, Valeria
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‘I knew her, Horatio’: Legacies of Shakespearean Performance in South Africa

English Studies in Africa
This article argues for the importance of recognizing the various histories reflected in performances of Shakespeare, and for the critical work this requires.
Marguerite F. de Waal
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Trading Virtual Legacies (Management of Tradition from Alexandria to Internet) [PDF]

Will the reconstructed library of Alexandria prevent a forthcoming clash of civilizations? Inventing and re-inventing traditions requires total quality management and multiple networking in shifting alliances in the information space.
Magala, S.J.
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