605 research outputs found
Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragilityin Sub-Saharan Africa
No full textWe explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of
economic, demographic, geographic and istitutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in
particular the civil liberties index and the number of revolutions, are the main determinants of
fragility, even taking into account their potential endogeneity. Economic factors such as income
growth and investment display a non robust impact after controlling for omitted variables and
reverse causality. Colonial variables reflecting the history of the region display a marginal impact
on fragility once institutions are accounted for
Far From Gentrification and Touristification? Residents’ perceptions of displacement on Murano Island
No full textMurano, an island in Venetian Lagoon, is world-renowned for its historical
glassmaking industry. In the last decades, similarly to what is happening in central Venice,
Murano has seen a significant decrease in its population and a reduction of its traditional
activities, both being connected to broader tourism gentrification dynamics. Prompted by
this, the authors devised and circulated a wide-ranging questionnaire that aimed to
investigate the economic, social, and territorial factors affecting people’s quality of life on
the island. The questionnaire was completed by almost 15% of Murano’s residents and one
aspect that it captured was various inhabitants’ perceptions of issues concerned with tourism
gentrification, which we analysed using Cocola-Gant’s (2018) concepts of residential,
commercial, and place-based displacement. We found that Muranese residents these
dynamics most keenly when they impact their daily life on the island, and they are concerned
about the loss of the identity of places they know and live in. We conclude by affirming that
this situation is not irreversible, and that policy makers can act to address it
De jure and de facto determinants of power: Evidence from Mississippi
No full textWe evaluate the empirical relevance of de facto vs. de jure determinants of political power in the U.S. South between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. We apply a variety of estimation techniques to a previously unexploited dataset on voter registration by race covering the counties of Mississippi in 1896, shortly after the introduction of the 1890 voting restrictions encoded in the state constitution. Our results indicate that de jure voting restrictions reduce black registration but that black disfranchisement starts well before 1890 and is more intense where a black majority represents a threat to the de facto power of white elites. Moreover, the effect of race becomes stronger after 1890 suggesting that the de jure barriers may have served the purpose of institutionalizing a de facto condition of disfranchisement
The Law of Primogeniture an d the Transiti o n from Landed Aristocracy to Industriai Democracy
No full textAlcuni dati sulla partecipazione dei giovani in Italia e in Europa
No full textIl capitolo propone un quadro aggiornato della partecipazione sociale e politica dei giovani, a livello europeo ed italian
L'Iva e le importazioni irregolari di beni
No full textL’articolo 2, paragrafo 1, lettera d), e l’articolo 30 della direttiva 2006/112/CE del Consiglio, del 28 novembre 2006, relativa al sistema comune d’imposta sul valore aggiunto, devono essere interpretati nel senso che, qualora un bene venga introdotto nel territorio dell’Unione europea, non è sufficiente che il bene sia stato oggetto di violazioni della normativa doganale in un determinato Stato membro, da cui sia derivata in tale Stato un’obbligazione doganale all’importazione, per ritenere che il bene sia entrato nel circuito economico dell’Unione nello Stato membro medesimo, qualora sia accertato che lo stesso bene è stato trasportato in un altro Stato membro, la sua destinazione finale, ove è stato consumato, ragion per cui l’imposta sul valore aggiunto all’importazione relativa al bene de quo sorge allora solo in detto altro Stato membro
Diversity of Pseudomonas and Pantoea species isolated from discoloured rice grains in Italy
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The Fragile Definition of State Fragility
No full textWe investigate the link between fragility and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa over a yearly panel covering the 1999-2004 period. Beside the conventional definition of fragility adopted by the OECD Development Assistance Committee, we introduce the more severe definition of extreme fragility. We show that only the latter exerts a significantly negative impact on economic development, once standard economic, demographic, and institutional regressors are accounted for. As a by-product of this investigation we also produce evidence on the growth performance of the area. We find a tendency to convergence and no influence of geographic and historical factors
Enabling spatial autocorrelation mapping in QGIS: The hotspot analysis Plugin
No full textThe analysis of spatial autocorrelation is a fundamental tool for the understanding of all the physical as well as anthropological processes which naturally take place within the geographical space, and which cannot be studied independently from it. The deployment of statistical techniques for investigating spatial autocorrelation has brought valuable results within manifold research fields ranging from the natural sciences to the socio-economic sciences. Moreover, the affinity between cartography and this kind of analysis has raised particular interest among GIS users as well as developers. This has led to the inclusion of many modules dedicated to the spatial autocorrelation mapping within both proprietary GIS software suites as well as free and open source programming libraries. Nevertheless, specific functionalities for spatial autocorrelation mapping have not yet been formally included -through dedicated user interfaces- within the most popular free and open source GIS software, such as QGIS. We present here the Hotspot Analysis Plugin, an experimental QGIS plugin -dedicated to the spatial autocorrelation mapping- based on the free and open source Python library PySAL (Python Spatial Analysis Library). Together with the technical specifications, two relevant examples of the plugin usage -connected to real case studies- are reported. These are: The detection of significant variations in soil consumption for the Lombardy Region (northern Italy) and the spatial correlation analysis of performance indicators characterizing Airbnb lodgings for the city of Venice (Italy)
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