Abstract Contrary to the expectations of secularization theory, religion remains socially important and affects politics in multiple ways—especially regarding conflict between religious communities. Theoretically, can increase altruism, but belief superiority one's faith may facilitate intergroup discrimination related conflict. Previous findings remain inconclusive, however, as specific ideas have hardly been tested. In this article, we argue that content has causal effects on...

This study tests the common conception that democratically elected leaders behave in interest of their constituents more than traditional chiefs do. Our sample includes 64 village and 384 villagers rural Namibia, where coexist. We analyze two main attributes local political leaders: procedural fairness preferences preferential treatment relatives (nepotism). also measure personality traits social preferences, conduct standardized surveys on governance practices villagers' perceptions...

The aim of this paper is to contribute the ongoing discussion about design a post-2015 development framework by proposing indicators monitor employment outcomes. Our analysis current MDG shows that measurement problems, inappropriate use aggregate statistics, ambiguous interpretability, and assumptions often do not hold true in context developing countries are major shortcomings indicators. Based on critique, we develop new set for productive decent work. We propose four indicators: (i)...

Abstract The MDG employment indicators suffer from major shortcomings, including measurement problems, inappropriate use of aggregate statistics, ambiguous interpretability, and assumptions that do not apply to developing countries. Based on this critique, the authors propose a new set four for productive decent work, namely: growth labour value added per worker, working poverty rate, share workers receiving less than an absolute minimum income, 60 cent median income. They demonstrate...

The paper reports on a series of field experiments based non-standard common-pool resource model and carried out with communal farmers in southern Africa. We frame an experimental design used by Cardenas et al. (2008) Thailand Colombia according to the grazing situation semi-arid regions. analyse efficiency two simple, imperfectly enforced property-rights mechanisms that base both, informal realworld arrangements practised areas as well procedure pursued Namibian government, where mostly...

Resumen Los indicadores actuales de los ODM sobre empleo presentan deficiencias importantes, como problemas medición, uso inadecuado estadísticas agregadas, ambigüedad interpretativa y supuestos base no aplicables a países en desarrollo. Tratando superar estos problemas, autores proponen cuatro nuevos productivo trabajo decente: el crecimiento la contribución del al valor añadido por trabajador, tasa trabajadores pobres porcentajes que ganan menos un ingreso laboral mínimo absoluto relativo...

Résumé Les indicateurs associés aux objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement présentent plusieurs lacunes: des problèmes de mesure et d'interprétation, l'utilisation données agrégées hypothèses inadaptées pays en développement. auteurs proposent par conséquent quatre nouveaux l'emploi productif travail décent: l'augmentation la part dans valeur ajoutée těte, taux travailleurs pauvres proportion qui perçoivent un revenu inférieur à minimum donné, fixé absolue d'abord puis 60 cent médian....