Demonology ideas that date from the oldest and most stable folklore mythological traditions are emphasized in multiple ethnic cultures. An early form of religion directly coupled with mythology is represented by black faith Mongolian and, more broadly, Central Asians, which evolved many different beliefs bequeathed ancestors (belief forces space nature, souls dead ancestors, totemic etc.). It m...

While Nepal is constitutionally recognised as a ‘multilingual’ nation, scholars, citizens and the government still disagree about the number of languages spoken within its borders. Some argue that this lack of accord is an indication of a profound institutional ignorance concerning the ethnolinguistic tapestry of the country, and go on to criticise the government for the perceived dearth of lin...

Urban housing inequality is a major academic and policy concern in Pakistan, but empirical investigations and, turn, evidence-based interventions are limited. This study examines the nature of inequalities their determinants focusing on ethnolinguistic groups using nationally representative household survey, where measured two indicators: space usage (room per capita) access to utilities (an in...

This research examines theoretically and empirically the economic origins of ethnolinguistic diversity. The empirical analysis constructs detailed data on the distribution of land quality and elevation across contiguous regions, virtual and real countries, and shows that variation in elevation and land quality has contributed signi…cantly to the emergence and persistence of ethnic fractionaliza...

Since the 1960’s color categorization and naming has been extensively investigated from the point of view of anthropology, linguistics, psychology, philosophy, color perception studies, and computer modeling; and recently the World Color Survey (WCS ) has provided further support for a view favoring the cross–cultural universality of color categorization (Kay & Regier 2003, Kay 2005, Regier, Ka...

Recent cross sectional growth studies have found that ethnolinguistic fractionalization is an important explanatory variable of long-run growth performance. In presenting variation over time in a number of social, political and economic dimensions, this paper adds longitudinal evidence on a range of variables that have been linked to long run economic development. Given South Africa’s history o...