Rechtsontologie und praktische Vernunft
In: Studien zur Rechtsphilosophie und Rechtstheorie 46
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In: Studien zur Rechtsphilosophie und Rechtstheorie 46
In: sofia-Studien zur interdisziplinären Institutionenanalyse, Volume 08-3
In: Journal of Development Studies, Volume 45, Issue 1, p. 124-149
This paper argues for a more precise and context specific understanding of mechanisms of 'informal social protection' in Bangladesh. The context is a 'Londoni' village in Sylhet which has high levels of internal and overseas migration. As our findings show, the extent to which the poor can call upon the protection of rich overseas migrants depends upon the degree of closeness to, or separation from, them, marked both through real and fictive kinship as well as geography. As the paper also argues, access to hierarchically ordered places is vital for the sustainability of precarious livelihoods. Yet whilst geographical movement is an important survival strategy for the poor, it is only when social relations are established with wealthy patrons that it can be said to contribute to informal social protection.
In: Journal of Development Studies, Volume 45, Issue 1, p. 24-54
Long-term growth in developing countries has been explained in four frameworks: 'extractive colonial institutions' (Acemoglu et al., 2001), 'colonial legal origin' (La Porta et al., 2004) 'geography' (Gallup et al., 1998) and 'colonial human capital' (Glaeser et al., 2004). In this paper we test the 'colonial human capital' explanation for sub-Saharan Africa, controlling for legal origins and geography. Utilizing data on colonial-era education, we find that instrumented human capital explains long-term growth better, and shows greater stability over time, than instrumented measures for extractive institutions. We suggest that the impact of the disease environment on African long-term growth runs through a human capital channel rather than an extractive-institutions channel. The effect of education is robust to including variables capturing legal origin and geography, which have additional explanatory power.
In: Latino studies, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 512-514
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In: Latino studies, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 510-511
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In: Latino studies, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 503-506
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In: Latino studies, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 391-392
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In: Latino studies, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 507-509
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In: Latino studies, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 520-521
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In: Latino studies, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 478-488
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In: Latino studies, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 515-517
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In: Latino studies, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 489-502
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In: Latino studies, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 439-454
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In: Latino studies, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 393-417
ISSN: 1476-3443