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African Enterprise Clusters and Industrialization: Theory and Reality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the theoretical argument that geographic and sectoral clustering enables enterprises to overcome constraints to growth and development, and found that certain anomalies could only be explained by other contextual variables.
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Conceptualising environmental collective action: Why gender matters
TL;DR: In this article, women's social networks embodying prior experience of successful cooperation, their higher dependence on these networks, and their potentially greater group homogeneity relative to men, could provide an important (and largely ignored) basis for organizing sustainable environmental collective action.
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Corruption and Trust: Theoretical Considerations and Evidence From Mexico
TL;DR: The growing empirical literature on political corruption shows trust (interpersonal and political) to be both cause and consequence of corruption, a conclusion that largely builds on studies using trust as a predictor of political corruption.
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Patterns of formal and informal social capital in Europe
Florian Pichler,Claire Wallace +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the way in which different kinds of social capital relate to one another, taking into account 27 European countries, using the Eurobarometer 62.2 covering a representative sample of 27 countries.
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Trust and inter‐firm relations in developing and transition economies
John Humphrey,Hubert Schmitz +1 more
TL;DR: The role of trust in facilitating economic growth has been highlighted in previous contributions to this journal as mentioned in this paper, and more attention needs to be given to the relationship between sanctions and trust, and it is worth distinguishing between the minimal trust for making markets effective and the extended trust required for deeper kinds of inter-firm co-operation to work.