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The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa [PDF]
We examine the long-run consequences of a neglected aspect of colonization, the artificial drawing of borders during the Scramble for Africa and uncover the following empirical regularities.
Elias Papaioannou, Stelios Michalopoulos
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HUMAN SECURITY AND LAND BORDERS CLOSURE: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
International Studies JournalThe paper examined how concerned of national interest and human security led to Nigeria land border closure in 2019.The paper employs the historical method to reviewed and analysed Data. The work adopted the liberal theoretical framework which justified
ISREAL SAMUEL +2 more
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Studia Historiae OeconomicaeThe use of statistical tools is becoming increasingly useful for the analysis of spatial numerical data. The following article attempts to create a model of changes in land use and land cover in the years 1900 and 1990 using SAS Studio software.
Sławomir Dorocki
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Violence, land conflicts and the dynamics of the agrarian economy in the Brazilian Amazon [PDF]
Cadernos de Saúde PúblicaIn the Amazon, the land market is imposed by the conversion of the forest into land for economic purposes. Part of this land is the result of illicit actions, using different levels of violence and producing changes in the forest landscape. We argue that
Ana Paula Dal’Asta +6 more
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International Terrorism, International Trade, and Borders [PDF]
This paper shows that terrorism reduces bilateral trade flows, in real terms, by raising trading costs and hardening borders. Countries sharing a common land border and suffering from terrorism trade much less than neighboring or distant countries that ...
Heejoon Kang, Michele Fratianni
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, 2012 At the end of the eighteenth century, a large-scale map of the Austrian Netherlands and the Prince-Bishopric of Liege was manufactured, covering more or less the current territory of Belgium.
Bracke, Wouter +5 more
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No woman’s land? Revisiting border zone denizens
Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2019 This article presents empirical data from survey research into lesbian and queer masculinities in the United Kingdom, conducted in 2017, which garnered over two hundred responses. Dominant themes emerged which addressed the differences between the sexed body and gender identity; the contradictions of identifying with masculinities while critiquing ...
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Supporting method of compact city planning in local metropolitan areas across prefectural borders
Japan Architectural ReviewThis study examines and visualizes a future urban structure of local metropolitan areas that extend over prefectural borders as in the case of Sinjiko‐nakaumi metropolitan areas located across Tottori prefecture and Shimane prefecture.
Yukino Yoshida +3 more
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How to define borders between private and common land in Norway?
Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2017 This article focuses upon the delimitation between the separate farm units and the collectively exploited common lands (‘allmenninger’) in Southeastern Norway during Medieval times.
Lars Ivar Hansen
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Smuggling and import duties in Myanmar [PDF]
This paper examines the effects of import duties on smuggling in Myanmar. Following Fisman and Wei (2004), the reporting discrepancies between Myanmar’s imports records and corresponding exports recorded by trading partners are regarded as indicative ...
Kubo, Koji, Nu Nu Lwin
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