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Legal Regimes And Political Particularism: An Assessment Of The "Legal Families" Theory From The Perspectives Of Comparative Law And Political Economy, John W. Cioffi, D. Gordon Smith Dec 2009

Legal Regimes And Political Particularism: An Assessment Of The "Legal Families" Theory From The Perspectives Of Comparative Law And Political Economy, John W. Cioffi, D. Gordon Smith

BYU Law Review

The “legal families” theory of corporate law and ownership structures pioneered by Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-deSilanes, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny provides one of the most influential accounts of why “law matters” in shaping economic organization and outcomes. However, the empirical bases and theoretical logic of the theory contain serious flaws and limitations. First, as has been pointed out by a number of critics engaged in this revision, the legal origins literature contains numerous problematic characterizations of substantive law that expose the serious problems of quantitative operationalization of legal rules as a mode of comparative legal analysis. Second, the …

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The Knowledge Problem Of New Paternalism, Mario J. Rizzo, Douglas Glen Whitman Nov 2009

The Knowledge Problem Of New Paternalism, Mario J. Rizzo, Douglas Glen Whitman

BYU Law Review

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A Few Drops Of Oil Will Not Be Enough, Stephen James Oct 2009

A Few Drops Of Oil Will Not Be Enough, Stephen James

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn provide a rich description of the various kinds of violence, deprivation, depredation and exploitation that women experience on a vast scale in the developing world. They write of sex trafficking, acid attacks, “bride burning,” enslavement, spousal beatings, unequal healthcare (something the USA still struggles with), insufficient food, gendered abortions and infant and maternal mortality. They are right to identify the education of women and girls as part of the solution to the widespread “gendercide.” However, their approach focuses too much on the capacity, indeed the virtue or heroism, of individual women. It does not take …

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From Outrage To Action, Henry Krisch Oct 2009

From Outrage To Action, Henry Krisch

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Kristof and WuDunn provide a vivid panoramic view of problems faced by women (primarily in the “developing” world), what has been done and what more could be done to help them achieve dignity and autonomy in their lives, and how vindication of their rights could contribute to the broader social development of their societies. In this they provide us with important insights into how human rights might be effectively proclaimed and successfully implemented. In reviewing their considerable contributions, I shall also suggest some limitations on both their analysis and their policy recommendations.

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"The Female Entrepreneur"?, Cath Collins Oct 2009

"The Female Entrepreneur"?, Cath Collins

Human Rights & Human Welfare

I read the “Women’s Crusade” article that forms the centrepiece of this month’s roundtable with initial interest, gradually turning to a vague sense of disquiet spiced with occasional disbelief. After a few more readings, I tried highlighting the passages that bothered me and stringing them together. Countries “riven by fundamentalism”— that’s presumably the Islamic variety, rather than the Christian variant which holds such sway in the US. The suggestion that “everyone from the World Bank to the US [...] Chiefs of Staff to [...] CARE” now thinks that women are the answer to global extremism hides too many questionable assumptions …

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Where Have All The Michigan Auto Jobs Gone?, Randall W. Eberts, George A. Erickcek Oct 2009

Where Have All The Michigan Auto Jobs Gone?, Randall W. Eberts, George A. Erickcek

Employment Research Newsletter

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Measuring Fiscal Sustainablility For Practical Use In Short-Term Policy Making, Arda Aktas, Mehmet Emre Sep 2009

Measuring Fiscal Sustainablility For Practical Use In Short-Term Policy Making, Arda Aktas, Mehmet Emre

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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Convergence Between The Business Cycles Of New European Member States And The "Euro" Business Cycle, Alain Safa, Marie-Jose Rinaldi-Larribe, Nathalie Hilmi Sep 2009

Convergence Between The Business Cycles Of New European Member States And The "Euro" Business Cycle, Alain Safa, Marie-Jose Rinaldi-Larribe, Nathalie Hilmi

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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Decomposing The Marginal Intra-Industry Trade Index As A Measure Of Changes In Trade Patterns And Its Application To The Mena Countries, Guzin Erlat, Haluk Erlat Sep 2009

Decomposing The Marginal Intra-Industry Trade Index As A Measure Of Changes In Trade Patterns And Its Application To The Mena Countries, Guzin Erlat, Haluk Erlat

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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Determinants Of Turkish Fdi Abroad, Saime Kayam, Mehtap Hisarciklilar Sep 2009

Determinants Of Turkish Fdi Abroad, Saime Kayam, Mehtap Hisarciklilar

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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Shifts In Persistence In The Turkish Real Exchange Rates, Haluk Erlat Sep 2009

Shifts In Persistence In The Turkish Real Exchange Rates, Haluk Erlat

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

No abstract provided.

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Bilateral Trade Flows Of The Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: A New Approach To Gravity Model, Aysu Insel, Mahmut Tekce Sep 2009

Bilateral Trade Flows Of The Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: A New Approach To Gravity Model, Aysu Insel, Mahmut Tekce

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

No abstract provided.

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Households Poverty And Water Linkages: Evidence From Algeria, Samir B.E. Maliki, Abderrezak Benhabib, Jacques Charmes Sep 2009

Households Poverty And Water Linkages: Evidence From Algeria, Samir B.E. Maliki, Abderrezak Benhabib, Jacques Charmes

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

No abstract provided.

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Darfur: Rainfall And Conflict, Michael Kevane, Leslie Gray Sep 2009

Darfur: Rainfall And Conflict, Michael Kevane, Leslie Gray

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

No abstract provided.

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Macroeconomic Implications Of Remittances In Mena And Mediterranean Countries, Claude Berthomieu, Anna Tykhonenko Sep 2009

Macroeconomic Implications Of Remittances In Mena And Mediterranean Countries, Claude Berthomieu, Anna Tykhonenko

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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Role Of The Middle Eastern Sovereign Wealth Funds In The Current Global Financial Crisis, Tayyeb Shabbir Sep 2009

Role Of The Middle Eastern Sovereign Wealth Funds In The Current Global Financial Crisis, Tayyeb Shabbir

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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How Oil Revenues Have Translated Into A Sustainable Improvement In Social Welfare In Algeria: 1998-2007, Zine Med. Barka Sep 2009

How Oil Revenues Have Translated Into A Sustainable Improvement In Social Welfare In Algeria: 1998-2007, Zine Med. Barka

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

No abstract provided.

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Middle Eastern Assimilation, Migration And Trade To Europe And North America, Hisham Foad Sep 2009

Middle Eastern Assimilation, Migration And Trade To Europe And North America, Hisham Foad

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

No abstract provided.

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Expected Social Security Wealth Simulations And Generational Fairness Of The Turkish Payg System, Yigit Aydede Sep 2009

Expected Social Security Wealth Simulations And Generational Fairness Of The Turkish Payg System, Yigit Aydede

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

No abstract provided.

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When The Twain Shall Meet: Middle East Area Studies And The Discipline Of Economics, Karen Pfeifer Sep 2009

When The Twain Shall Meet: Middle East Area Studies And The Discipline Of Economics, Karen Pfeifer

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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The Role Of Foreign Direct Investment For Economic Development In The Mena Region, Simon Neaime, Marcus Marktanner Sep 2009

The Role Of Foreign Direct Investment For Economic Development In The Mena Region, Simon Neaime, Marcus Marktanner

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

No abstract provided.

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Trapped By Consociationalism: The Case Of Lebanon, Samir Makdisi, Marcus Marktanner Sep 2009

Trapped By Consociationalism: The Case Of Lebanon, Samir Makdisi, Marcus Marktanner

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

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How Much Do Trading Partners Matter For Economic Growth? By Vivek Arora And Athanasios Vamvakidis: A Review, D. J. Yilkudi Sep 2009

How Much Do Trading Partners Matter For Economic Growth? By Vivek Arora And Athanasios Vamvakidis: A Review, D. J. Yilkudi

Economic and Financial Review

The paper is a review of the paper "How much do trading partners matter for economic growth? by Vivek Arora and Athanasios Vamvakidis". The paper empirically examined the extent to which a country's long-term economic growth was influenced by the economic fortune of its trading partners. The study used panel data for over 100 countries to see if trading partners' growth had a strong effect on domestic growth. A strong relationship was found between the economic growth of a country and the economic conditions of its trading partners.

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From Armchair Reading To Action: Acknowledging Our Role In The Horror Of The Democratic Republic Of The Congo - And Doing Something About It., Shareen Hertel Sep 2009

From Armchair Reading To Action: Acknowledging Our Role In The Horror Of The Democratic Republic Of The Congo - And Doing Something About It., Shareen Hertel

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Reading Adam Hochschild's extraordinary account of ordinary people caught up in the horrific ravages of a civil war raging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), I was struck by how incongruous my own encounter with this suffering is. I read his article over lunch, safe in the comfort of my own home. As a woman, I live largely without fear of the kind of brutal sexual violence that Hochschild opens his article with, as he related the story of a Congolese NGO worker who is herself a victim of multiple rapes.

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Human Rights Law On Trial In The Drc, William Paul Simmons Sep 2009

Human Rights Law On Trial In The Drc, William Paul Simmons

Human Rights & Human Welfare

The ongoing tragedy in Eastern Congo contains so many tragic lessons that it should shake to their very foundations all comfortable ideologies about human rights and politics. The atrocities in the DRC should implicate all but have so far resulted in almost limitless impunity. Here, I briefly put human rights law on trial for its role in perpetuating this tragedy.

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Natural Resources And Wealth Of The Democratic Republic Of Congo (Drc): Of Benefit To Whom?, Nicola Colbran Sep 2009

Natural Resources And Wealth Of The Democratic Republic Of Congo (Drc): Of Benefit To Whom?, Nicola Colbran

Human Rights & Human Welfare

When asked to discuss the humanitarian tragedy in the DRC, the question really is where to start? The article by Adam Hochschild discusses some of the most horrific events and experiences imaginable: widespread killings of unarmed civilians, rape, torture and looting, the recruitment of child soldiers, and the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of people. The immediate human response is who is to blame, how did it happen and how can the world apparently do nothing?

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If They Just Weren't So Rich!, Anja Mihr Sep 2009

If They Just Weren't So Rich!, Anja Mihr

Human Rights & Human Welfare

The deadliest war on earth-as it is called-in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will only end when the country's richness fades or is kept under surveillance. Human rights and peace might have a chance if Congo's lucrative diamond, gold or coltan mines were under shared control by non-profit agencies or international organizations with the intention to spread the mines' benefits and wealth among the Congolese people. Wishful thinking? Most likely it is, but what other alternative is there? The country's extraordinary wealth in natural resources is the main reason for the immense corruption, the extermination of entire villages, the …

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Building A Meritocracy: The American Precedent For Wealth Redistribution, Micah D. Bobo Aug 2009

Building A Meritocracy: The American Precedent For Wealth Redistribution, Micah D. Bobo

Undergraduate Economic Review

This work investigates the use of wealth redistribution mechanisms in establishing and promoting meritocratic practices in early United States history. From the fifteenth to eighteenth century, the reward system used in exploration, colonization incentives, and land redistribution techniques are examined. During the eighteenth and nineteenth century, the effects of industrialization and education on social mobility are reviewed. Finally, the social and economic factors resulting in southern secession, particularly slavery, are examined. While the concept may be unpopular in modern society, wealth redistribution mechanisms were essential to cultivating merit-based social mobility and overall societal stability throughout the period covered.

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The Development Of Informal Sector Small And Medium Scale Enterprises Through Formation Of Cluster And Networking: A Case Study Based On Sri Lanka And Pakistan, S.W.S.B. Dasanayaka Jul 2009

The Development Of Informal Sector Small And Medium Scale Enterprises Through Formation Of Cluster And Networking: A Case Study Based On Sri Lanka And Pakistan, S.W.S.B. Dasanayaka

Business Review

In recent years Pakistan has faced a rapidly growing services sector which has lead some observers to believe that there is a transfer of resources occurring in Pakistan from the tradable to the non-tradable sector, hence causing the Dutch Disease in the economy. However no precise response has been offered on this subject. This paper seeks to provide empirical evidence on the question of the existence of Dutch Disease in Pakistan by using Linda Kamas's model on Dutch Disease. The percentage change in the growth of the tradable and the non-tradable sectors in Pakistan is calculated by using data from …

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Tools To Transform The Workforce Development System, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary Jul 2009

Tools To Transform The Workforce Development System, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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