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66 developing countries over the period 1990-2005, this paper provides econometric evidence that democracy matters for … insufficiently welfare minded. We found that high levels of democracy are specifically needed in natural resource rich countries to …
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element of human-sized organizations that were the first mutual or cooperative Caisses, is democracy running the risk to … disappearance of democracy inherent to the cooperative project, a more differentiating diagnosis is proposed, followed by an outline … of some working leads for a creative evolution of cooperative democracy. …
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quality of democracy, and we investigate whether foreign aid can dampen them. We take advantage of previous empirical findings … flows can potentially dampen the effects of terms of trade instability on democracy. An empirical investigation with data … of trade instability affects democracy through income instability. …
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of democracy in his country during his tenure. This e ffect is shown to be independent from the leader's education level …, as well as from his profession. Moreover, it is mainly driven by countries with a poor initial level of democracy. These …
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Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases … reformist parties in the former socialist block lies in a deepening of democracy. …
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A large theoretical literature has identified the deficiencies of cooperatives and deduced they should disappear. However, the empirical literature has not confirmed a significantly lower level of efficiency for cooperatives. A survey of the empirical literature and new data on French...
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transitions, we find that external debt constraints indebted countries to move up democracy scale but incite governments to …
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Previous research on electoral participation has paid little attention to turnout in developing countries. Even more understudied is the effect of mass media, as the main source of political information, on voter turnout in new democracies. This paper argues that voter turnout patterns in...
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This paper analyses the relationships between environmental compliance, corruption and environmental regulations in the case of forestry. Using a Principal-Agent model, we highlight interrelationships between firm's environmental non-compliance and corruption conditioned to the efficiency of the...
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The paper discusses regionalism from the standpoint of developing countries surveying the more significant recent contributions surrounding the contentious debate about identifying resulting benefits for Southern partners in the recent wave of North-South Preferential Trading Agreements (PTAs).
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