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Insurgency and credible commitment in autocracies and democracies [PDF]
This paper suggests a new factor that makes civil war more likely: the inability of political actors to make credible promises to broad segments of society.
Keefer, Philip
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Change, psychosocial stress and health in an era of globalization [PDF]
, 2004 In the last decades, globalization has produced an acceleration of social, economic and political changes worldwide. These changes had a number of positive effects including enhancing political freedom, living standards and health conditions.
De Vogli, R.
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Politics as encounter and response-ability. Learning to converse with enigmatic others
Artnodes, 2014 Partint de la questio que planteja que podria ser la politica del nou materialisme feminista, aquest article aborda les possibilitats derivades de (re-)conceptualitzar allo politic en termes d’encontres i involucrament (no principalment com a materia d’eleccio i decisio, sino com «l’unica manera d’imaginar-nos que podem sobreviure» (Bernice Johnson ...
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar +2 more
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Struggling for Political Economy: an Institutional Issue [PDF]
The financial crisis has turned into a real economic crisis and then into a public finance crisis: its political and social implications show very obviously, even to the most unaware people, how much economic matters are a social and political phenomenon.
Bruno Tinel
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen +5 more
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Food inflation pass‐through from agricultural imports in a small open economy
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper develops a new framework for quantifying cost pass‐through in a small open economy by estimating firm‐level markup responses to agricultural import price shocks. We show theoretically that markup adjustments depend on firms' reliance on imported inputs and demand curvature, generating heterogeneous inflationary effects across firm ...
Minseong Kang, Seungki Lee
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A Static or Dynamic Union: Euroscepticism and the Internal Legitimacy of the European Integration
Czech Journal of International Relations, 2011 The article focuses on the role of the phenomenon of Euroscepticism in the issue of the legitimacy of the European Union (EU), namely on the relation between the current conceptualisation of Euroscepticism and the EU’s ability to operate „imide“ the ...
Petr Kaniok
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Can political reservations affect political equilibria in the long-term? Evidence from local elections in rural India [PDF]
While many studies explored impacts of political quotas for females, often with ambiguous results, underlying mechanisms and long-term effects have received relatively little attention.
Deininger, Klaus +2 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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