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What role do local elections play for societal peace in Nepal? : evidence from post-conflict Nepal

Fiedler, Charlotte; Mross, Karina; Berg, Anna; … - 2022

Can local elections introduced in a post-conflict context help to foster societal peace, or do they create new potential for conflict? The value of post-conflict elections has been the matter of controversial academic debates. However, this literature largely neglects to take into account the...

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George Gunton's divergent view on the origin of the great divergence : the dynamics of social wants in England and India

Sivramkrishna, Sashi - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 41 (2023) 1, pp. 31-54

static in the East, particularly India, so that standards of living and consequently real wages too did not increase. This …

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The Dutch sappanwood trade in the eighteenth century

Dodge, Cameron J. G. - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 39 (2021), pp. 129-147

In the eighteenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) traded sappanwood, a source of red dye for textiles, in …

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A short history of transport in Japan from ancient times to the present

Black, John Andrew - 2022

"A Short History of Transport in Japan from Ancient Times to the Present is a unique study: the first by a Western … transport, to identify how reformed institutional arrangements might develop more sustainable and equitable transport services …. With chapters addressing each major form of transport, Black examines the predominant role of institutions and individuals …

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Quantifying trade from Renaissance merchant letters

Gatti, Fabio - 2024

Medieval and Early-Modern business correspondence between European companies constitutes a rich source of economic, business, and trade information in that the writing of letters was the very instrument through which merchants ordered and organized the shipments of goods, and performed financial...

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Reach of globalization in 18th century Germany : Atlantic products from Hamburg to Saxon markets

Kikuchi, Yūta - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 65 (2024) 2, pp. 527-559

This study explores the economic cohesion of two German areas, Hamburg and Saxony, in the 18 th century, created through the inflow of Atlantic colonial groceries from the former to the latter. Combining different kinds of sources revealed the following. The trade flow from Hamburg to German...

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???Red Flags of Corruption??? in World Bank Projects : An Analysis of Infrastructure Contracts

Kenny, Charles; Musatova, Maria - 2012

"Red flags" are indicators of potential issues regarding governance failure, collusion or corruption in projects. While some specific red flags can be powerful indicators of issues to be addressed, the hypothesis of this paper is that many proposed red flags are potentially too ubiquitous and...

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Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2011

Can international migration promote better institutions at home by raising the demand for political accountability? A behavioral measure of the population's desire for better governance was designed to examine this question. A postcard was distributed to households promising that if enough...

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Does Respondent Reticence Affect the Results of Corruption Surveys? Evidence from the World Bank Enterprise Survey for Nigeria

Clausen, Bianca; Kraay, Aart; Murrell, Peter - 2012

A potential concern with survey-based data on corruption is that respondents may not be fully candid in their responses to sensitive questions. If reticent respondents are less likely to admit to involvement in corrupt acts, and if the proportion of reticent respondents varies across groups of...

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Why Multi-stakeholder Groups Succeed and Fail

Truex, Rory; Soreide, Tina - 2012

Anti-corruption initiatives increasingly use multi-stakeholder groups, comprised of representatives from government, private sector, and civil society organizations, to drive implementation at the local level and serve as a force for transparency. In theory, the multi-stakeholder groups ideal is...

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