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The Data Revolution in African Economic History
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2016 The recent surge in computing power and access to data-processing software and online resources enables historians to capture historical statistics on a much larger scale than before.
J. Fourie
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, 2008 Economic history focuses on the historical study of growth and development. Originating in the German historical school and studies of the Industrial Revolution in England, it became professionally differentiated from economics proper with the establishment of associations in Britain (1926) and the United States (1941).
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, 2017 Widespread recognition that economic inequality has been growing for forty years in most of the developed world, and in fact has tended to grow across most of the history of modern economies, shows that the period 1945-1973, when inequality of wealth and
Grewal, David Singh, Purdy, Jedediah
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Public spending on rural tourism in Sweden
Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 2016 Tourism is an important part of rural policies in European countries. An increased demand for rural amenities is seen as creating a more diversified labour market and contributing to the restructuring of the economy, from primary sectors and ...
Åsa Almstedt +2 more
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Measuring intra-industry trade and productivity in the South African pharmaceutical sector
South African Journal of Economic and Management SciencesBackground: The South African pharmaceutical sector is Africa’s largest and most advanced but heavily depends on imported products and active pharmaceutical ingredients to meet its demands.
Nwabisa Malimba +2 more
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The Economic Consequences of Being Widowed by War: A Life-Cycle Perspective [PDF]
Journal of Public Economics, 239 (2024)Despite millions of war widows worldwide, little is known about the economic consequences of being widowed by war. We use life history data from West Germany to show that war widowhood increased women's employment immediately after World War II but led to lower employment rates later in life. War widows, therefore, carried a double burden of employment
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Peace Dividends: The Economic Effects of Colombia's Peace Agreement [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The last decades have seen a resurgence of armed conflict globally, renewing the need for durable peace agreements. In this paper, I evaluate the economic effects of the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the largest guerrilla group in the country, the FARC, ending one of the lengthiest and most violent armed conflicts in recent ...
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What Do States Do? Politics and Economic History
Journal Economic History, 2015 Although politics has a huge effect on economic outcomes, we still know too little about what public goods states furnish or what determines the laws, regulations, and policies that states adopt. Worse yet, we do not really understand how states arise in
Philip T. Hoffman
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Entrepreneurial potential in less innovative regions: the impact of social and cultural environment [PDF]
European Journal of Management and Business Economics, 2017 Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role that the sociocultural, family and university environment play in the entrepreneurial intention of young people in a peripheral and less innovative region.
Francisco J. García-Rodríguez +3 more
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Relationship of cognitive decline with glucocerebrosidase activity and amyloid‐beta 42 in DLB and PD
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.Abstract Objective Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson's disease (PD) share clinical, pathological, and genetic risk factors, including GBA1 and APOEε4 mutations. Biomarkers associated with the pathways of these mutations, such as glucocerebrosidase enzyme (GCase) activity and amyloid‐beta 42 (Aβ42) levels, may hold potential as predictive ...
Maria Camila Gonzalez +15 more
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