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How FDI reshapes host markets’ trade profile and politics
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract A fast‐growing literature indicates that firms’ engagement in foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade is key to understanding deepening global value chains and their political implications. However, existing studies have mainly focused on the ramifications for FDI home countries while often overlooking the firm‐product level interactions ...
In Song Kim, Steven Liao, Sayumi Miyano
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Legislative Protection of Property Rights in Ethiopia: An Overview
Mizan Law Review, 2014 There are ambiguities, inconsistencies, gaps and outdated features in the legislative protection of some property rights in Ethiopia. Moreover, there is the bestowal of wide and undue discretion to various administrative authorities without judicial ...
M Abdo
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Property rights and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon [PDF]
This paper focuses on the impact of property rights insecurity on deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon. Deforestation is considered as a risk management strategy: property rights insecurity reduces the present value of forests and fosters forest ...
Catherine Araujo Bonjean +4 more
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
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Economic institutions determine prospects for growth and development. This paper examines necessary conditions for an economy to support institutions that implement markets. Agents differ in land holdings, skill, and power.
Gall, Thomas, Masella, Paolo
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NAFTA Chapter 11 Investor-State Cases: Lessons for the Central America Free Trade Agreement [PDF]
, 2005 This report describes how Canadian cattle producers are using NAFTA to demand $300 million in compensation from U.S. taxpayer funds, claiming that the Canadian cattle import ban instituted after mad cow disease was found in Canada violates their NAFTA ...
Lori Wallach, Mary Bottari
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Unfixing Place: Time and Value in the Anthropology of Food
Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although many anthropologists have engaged with the political and economic work of “place” in qualifying and working with food, time has rarely featured substantively in the economic and political life of the comestible. Gathering themes from my ethnographic research in Northern Italy and excavation time in anthropological scholarship on food,
Janita Van Dyk
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A Tale of Markets and Jungles in a Simple Model of Growth [PDF]
Institutions determine prospects for economic growth and development. This paper collapses potentially complex interactions of different institutions into a simple condition on the primitives that determines whether a society supports spot markets or not.
Paolo Masella, Thomas Gall
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Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sierra Leone's land governance reform policies are often based on the neoliberal assumption that market growth, gender equality and women's empowerment are mutually compatible objectives. Contrary to this assumption, this article argues that while market‐oriented reforms can help to destabilize legal and cultural norms that are discriminatory ...
Mohamed Sesay, Simeon Koroma
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Property and Empire: The Law of Imperialism in Johnson v. M’Intosh [PDF]
, 2007 Chief Justice\u27s Marshall\u27s opinion in Johnson v. M\u27Intosh, 21 U.S. (8 Wheat.)543 (1823) has long been a puzzle, both in its doctrinal structure and in long, strange dicta which are both triumphal and elegiac.
Bonnerud, Patrik +5 more
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