The concept of social cohesion has received great political and research attention at the national and supranational levels in developed countries. At the national level, Canadian Government and at the supranational level, the OECD, the World Bank and European Commission are dealing with the...

Processes of conflict and violence are central to how shared societies are built and sustained. Very few countries in the world have supported systems of justice, equality and democracy without some amount of bloodshed. At the same time, violence and conflict threaten the principles and values...

Billions of ordinary people around the world hold similar beliefs to you over the value of shared societies and social justice. They have demonstrated that they are willing and ready to act in markets, using their buying power, to seek a fairer world. This presentation explains current thinking...

In this paper we provide a coherent framework for analyzing the impact of incalculable political risk, i.e. political ambiguity, on economic development and the choice of development strategy. Using indicators for the levels of internal and external political ambiguity, we analyze the growth...

This case study found out how a public-private partnership in Burkina Faso helped female shea nut producers to link up with the cosmetic industry. Empirical data collected from October-December 2011 revealed that the shea value chain partnership between a international shea processing company, a...

Recent years witnessed a gradual change on how to evaluate successful procurement, in both the private ad the public sector. Indeed from a price-only criterion for measuring success, decisions shifted to a multi-criteria approach where various dimensions of quality, as well as price, are...

A main issue in auction and contest design is how to attract the appropriate pool of potential bidders to enter and compete aggressively. In all-pay auctions with complete information (Baye at al, 1993 AER) formulated the so called “Exclusion Principle” showing that when the auctioneer...

This paper presents a general equilibrium assignment model of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills. The model has 2 key features. First, skills are endogenous and multidimensional. Sec- ond, two types of assignment occur; workers self-select the type of skills to supply and …rms...

Club de Madrid, Shared Societies are societies in which people hold an equal capacity to participate in, and benefit from, economic, political, and social opportunities regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, language, gender, or other attributes and where, as a consequence, relationships...