Normative legal systems have struggled to define international property rights. This struggle has been particularly intense in the area of intellectual property because the level of protection afforded to trademarked goods varies tremendously from nation to nation.1 Thus, international trade often leads to infringement of domestic property rights. The tension between the global mobility of good...

Do people from disadvantaged ethnic groups favor political violence over non-violent tactics? Studies of horizontal (between-group) inequality often concentrate on civil war. This article drills below the macro level and looks beyond war, to investigate individual participation in various types conflict. Different combinations disadvantage different kinds conflict, because opportunity structure...

Peru is a country were social exclusion is very profound but at the same time very subtle. Sociological and anthropological evidence suggest that there are several mechanisms through which ethnic and racial discrimination affect the lives of a large part of the population. However, precise measurements of the extent to which the potentially excluded groups are affected, are almost nonexistent. ...

The tribal population in the State of Andhra Pradesh, and in the country as a whole, is the most deprived and vulnerable community that faces severe economic exclusion. Although certain constitutional safeguards are provided, no significant economic, social and political mobility has taken place across this community. Contrary to Scheduled Castes and other Backward Castes who witnessed certain ...

It is believed that economic integration, in terms of increasing flows of trade and foreign direct investment, contributes to lower the level of corruption in host countries because integration increases market competition and efficiency, reduces rents, and promotes the diffusion of good governance. However, such kind of argument ignores the interactions between economic integration and local p...

BACKGROUND Disadvantaged older adults living in non-family situations in Toronto are more likely than older adults living in family situations to have less economic security, less social support, and less choice in housing. Older adults who live in poverty and are precariously housed are more likely to be chronically ill, to live with multiple illnesses, to have poor nutrition, high stress and ...

BACKGROUND Large geographical variations in the incidence of disability benefits have been reported, but it is unclear to what extent that is confounded by variations in disability rates and disease pattern in the population and whether local variations in rehabilitation and health insurance practice modify the employment effect of disease. We have studied risk of labour market exclusion follow...