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One in ten bottles or cans of beer sold in the UK have not had duty paid on them and there are growing reports of counterfeit spirits being sold by licit and illicit retailers. HMRC seized almost ten million litres of non-duty paid alcohol in 2010/11, a rise of 30 per cent in two years. The UK...
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In this paper we combine the tariff evasion analysis of Fisman and Wei (2004) with Rauch and Trindade's (2002) study of Chinese trade networks. Chinese networks are known to act as trade catalysts by enforcing contracts and providing market information. As tariff evasion occurs outside the law,...
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Rwanda is among the few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the developing approaching universal health insurance …
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The economic literature has given due attention to household coping strategies in peacetime. In contrast, little is known about such strategies in wartime. This paper studies the use of cattle as a buffer stock by Rwandan households during 1991-2001, a period characterized by civil war and...
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Rwanda experienced several firms of internal violence, including civil war,genocide, reprisal killings and (counter …-)insurgency. While these events all occurred in 1990-1998, their geographic location within Rwanda differred, with the genocide … evidence on the death toll of firmed conflict in Rwanda, we find significant high-high excess mortality clusters in the …
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-scale massacres and dispersed killings, to victims of violence. The measure is illustrated for the case of Rwanda and it is shown that …
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Ruanda. Für letztere könnte dies eine Strategie sein, um ihre Heiratschancen zu verbessern. …
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This paper investigates the determinants of intra-household time allocation in post-war Rwanda. A decade after the 1994 … genocide, Rwanda still bears the demographic impact of the war, in which at least 800,000 people died and the majority of …
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genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of the survivors in multiple ways. The analysis finds a robust effect of … reducing fertility for the large group of widows in Rwanda. …
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Rwanda in the early 90s, and using micro data to carry out econometric analysis, this paper finds that households and …
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