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Law, Equity, and Development, vol. 2.
- A World Bank report, 2006
The first (and most fundamental) principle is that legal and rule-based systems are constitutive of economic, social, and political life, or what might be more holistically understood as everyday human life. Such systems are therefore fundamental to the … p. 6
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Violence as an Obstacle to Development
- Inter-American Development Bank
Violence impedes economic development. From a macroeconomic point of view, violence reduces foreign and domestic investment as well as domestic savings, thus hindering prospects for long term growth ...