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speed. In the 20th century, religion played a much lesser role in daily life and income and productivity grew at high and …
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In this article, we draw some optimistic, socio-liberal conclusions about Islam in the world system. Countering some alarmist voices in the West, neither migration nor Muslim culture are to be blamed for the contemporary crisis, but the very nature of unequal capitalist accumulation and...
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This paper employs a variety of economic and financial indicators to examine the relationship between Roman Catholicism and Irish development in the Post-Famine period. County-level decennial data are used for all census years from 1871 to 1911, and Catholicism is instrumented using the distance...
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This paper uses a historical setting to study when religion can be a barrier to the diffusion of knowledge and economic …
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, measures of democracy, human development, corruption perception index and per capita income, which in turn jointly influence … 2-SLS. Empirically, it has been established that globalization, democracy, human development and low level of corruption …
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religion, and between different trans-national social spaces. Different innovation cultures may be complementary, mutually … African religion on development in Benin and Haiti. …
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This paper studies when religion can hamper diffusion of knowledge and economic development and through which mechanism …
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the literature on growth theory and religion, discuss the use of the World Values Surveys to measure religious intensity …
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to fall to about half its pre-modern level. Most components of the demand for religion are reduced by development. The … supply of religion declines once churches lose control over the institutions providing collective goods like education …
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