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A Multidisciplinary Conference On The Challenges & Opportunities For Sustainable Development In Ethiopia & The Greater Horn Of Africa
International Conference on African Development Archives
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Ethnosymbolism And The Dismemberment Of The State In The Horn Of Africa: The Ethiopian Case Of Ethnic Federalism, Assefa Mehretu
Ethnosymbolism And The Dismemberment Of The State In The Horn Of Africa: The Ethiopian Case Of Ethnic Federalism, Assefa Mehretu
International Conference on African Development Archives
The paper has three major objectives. The first is to do a critical review of the current largely antagonistic narratives of ethnic instrumentalism in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa that have ultimately led to the balkanization of the state and caused serious political instability and fratricidal conflicts with traumatic and costly consequences in the region. The second is to do a critical review of the policy of the current Ethiopian government to implement ethno-territorial formations under the rubric of killils (Amharic for territorial enclosures), and to demonstrate how this may seriously vitiate national integration along compatible cultural and economic …
Education And Energy Innovation: Nshe’S Central Role In Transforming Nevada’S Economy, James Croce
Education And Energy Innovation: Nshe’S Central Role In Transforming Nevada’S Economy, James Croce
UNLV Renewable Energy Symposium
The 3rd Annual Renewable Energy Symposium took place on the UNLV campus August 11 & 12. The event focused on renewable energy production in Nevada, the US Southwest, and renewable research projects nationwide. The event was a great success with over 200 individuals in attendance.
Market, Capitalism And Hong Kong’S Future : The Relevance Of Karl Polanyi And Fernand Braudel, Po Keung Hui
Market, Capitalism And Hong Kong’S Future : The Relevance Of Karl Polanyi And Fernand Braudel, Po Keung Hui
Conference on “Improving the Human Destiny"
This paper draws on the insights of Karl Polanyi and Fernand Braudel on “capitalism” and “market” to analyze the experience and discourse of the economic development in Hong Kong, the role-model of “free market capitalism”, with a specific focus on the last two decades -- the so-called “neo-liberal” era. The first part of the paper re-reads Polanyi and Braudel in the midst of the current financial crisis and economic depression, aiming at teasing out a theoretical perspective for a better understanding of our past and current economy. The second part argues that, as evidenced in the persistence of anti-competition practices …
The Future Of Democratic Capitalism : A Human Capital Perspective, Isaac Ehrlich
The Future Of Democratic Capitalism : A Human Capital Perspective, Isaac Ehrlich
Conference on “Improving the Human Destiny"
Schumpeter’s diagnosis of capitalism seems to be fully validated by the financial crisis and severe recession, except that he was wrong on his main prediction – that capitalism’s flaws would cause it to lose its vitality. The reality is that Democratic Capitalism has flourished despite episodes of depression, war, prohibition, and intrusive interventionist policies. It is therefore a mistake to engage in a critical assessment of capitalism while world economies are still close to the ebb of the business cycle. Free markets cannot abolish the business cycle in the same way that free trade and free capital flows cannot abolish …
Job Satisfaction And The Labor Market Institutions In Urban China, John S. Heywood, W. Stanley Siebert, Xiangdong Wei
Job Satisfaction And The Labor Market Institutions In Urban China, John S. Heywood, W. Stanley Siebert, Xiangdong Wei
Conference on “Improving the Human Destiny"
The determinants of worker job satisfaction are estimated using a representative survey of three major cities in China. Legally segregated migrants, floaters, earn significantly less than otherwise equivalent non-migrants but routinely report greater job satisfaction, a finding not previously reported. We confirm a positive role for membership in the communist party but find that it exists only for non-migrants suggesting a club good aspect to membership. In contrast to earlier studies, many controls mirror those found in western democracies including the "paradox of the contented female worker.
Happiness And Development : The Effect Of Mental Well-Being On Economic Growth, Ben Li, Yi Lu
Happiness And Development : The Effect Of Mental Well-Being On Economic Growth, Ben Li, Yi Lu
Conference on “Improving the Human Destiny"
This paper examines the impact of overall happiness of citizens on economic growth across countries. We first document a robust positive correlation between overall happiness level and economic growth across countries, and then exploit the variation in sex imbalance, a factor that impedes normal mating and thus causes unhappiness, to instrument happiness and identify its causal impact on economic growth. Our results show that happiness has a positive causal effect on economic growth. Other things being equal, a one-standard-deviation increase in happiness raises growth rate by approximately two percentage points. In addition, we find that life expectancy and investment ratio …
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Andrew Postlewaite, University Of Pennsylvania: "Where Do People's Preferences Come From?"
John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference
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