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Global Insecurity,Transparency and Sustainable Development:African Challenges

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

institutions and governance to provide citizen security, justice and jobs is crucial to break cycles of violence while stimulating … recommends the need for restoring confidence, transforming institutions(procedures), providing specialized assistance, acting …

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El fortalecimiento institucional de los bancos centrales

Heinrich, Gregor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Annotated remarks made at the 50th Anniversary Conference “Fortalecimiento institucional de los bancos centrales y efectividad de la política monetaria”, of the Central Bank of Nicaragua, February 2010. The paper lays out the importance of institutional strenthening (governance) as an...

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The reality about aid and governance: the threshold theory

Jaouadi, Saïd - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The aim of this survey is to explain the real impact of aid on governance in the developing countries: including the subsahara and the MENA region during the period 1990-2004 by using the “threshold theory”. Stephen Knack proved that foreign aid had a harmful impact on the governance of the...

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Corruption and economic growth: A meta-analysis of the evidence on low-income countries and beyond

Ugur, Mehmet; Dasgupta, Nandini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Corruption is a symptom and outcome of institutional deficiency, with potentially adverse effects on economic growth. This paper aims to provide a synthesis of the existing evidence on the relationship between corruption and economic growth - controlling for effect type, data sources, and...

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Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators

Knack, Stephen; Keefer, Philip - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995

This paper compares more direct measures of the institutional environment with both the instability proxies used by Barro (1991) and the Gastil indices, by comparing their effects both on growth and private investment. The results provide substantial support for the position that the...

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Inequality and Institutions

Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper presents theory and evidence on the relationship between inequality and institutional quality. We exhibit a model in which the two dynamically reinforce each other and set to test this relationship with a broad array of institutional measures. We establish the double causality between...

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Development through Globalization?

Nayyar, Deepak - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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Reconstruction from Breakdown in Northeastern India: Building State Capability

Hassan, M. Sajjad - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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Stranger than Fiction? Understanding Institutional Changes and Economic Development

Chang, Ha-Joon - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

functional multiplicity, the importance of informal institutions, unintended consequences, and intended 'perversion' of … institutions all imply that the orthodox recipe of importing 'best practice' formal institutions does not work. While denying the … existence of universal formulas, the volume distills some general principles of institutions building from theoretical …

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Y a-t-il une gouvernance des systèmes d’innovation dans les pays d’Afrique du Nord et du Moyen-Orient?

Arvanitis, Rigas; M'HENNI, Hatem; Tsipouri, Lena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This article summarizes observations on the technological and innovation level of four Mediterranean countries (Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia). Although these concepts are still controversial, we try to examine the specific issue of the governance of innovation policies. This approach is most...

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