In the 1960s and 1970s elite studies formed an integral part of the research agenda on newly independent African states. Commentators sought to predict the likely political and economic paths of independent African states based on the social backgrounds and political orientations of existing...

We present a lab-in-the-field experiment and surveys of marginalised Roma children in Slovakia to examine whether reminding Roma of their ethnicity reduces their performance in a cognitive task. Research on social identity and stereotypes has documented that when individuals feel their social...

Group lending has been widely adopted in the past thirty years by many microfinance institutions as a means to mitigate information asymmetries when delivering credit to the poor. This paper proposes an empirical method to address the potential omitted-variable problem resulting from unobserved...

Author in present article retrograde, and time-distance compares the effects of poverty and liberation theology in the early 70s of 20th century, which was born in Latin America by Gustavo Gutiérrez and Leonardo Boff, and led "Copernican" reversal theology, especially in strict Roman Catholic...

Consideration of social identity and trust as factors of consolidated public opinion formation is due to mutual social processes connected with formation of social identity, trust and public opinion. Consolidated public opinion can be formed in case there are mutual values between groups and...