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Varieties of capitalists? The middle class, private sector and economic outcomes in Africa
Handley, Antoinette - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Political scientists have generally seen two key features of African political economies.a relatively small or absent middle class, and a middle class that is unusually embedded in the state.as key explanations of the troubled political and economic traje
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076175
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Aid and Infrastructure Financing: Emerging challenges with a focus on Africa
Addison, Tony; Anand, P. B. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
, especially in Africa, the role of foreign aid in the future should be distinctly different. While aid will be required to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570497
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Institutional Reforms, Private Sector, and Economic Growth in Africa
Okey, Mawussé K. N. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of institutional reforms on the revival of African economies. We study the impact of positive changes in business environment indicators of the Doing Business project and the Economic Freedom Index of the Heritage Foundation on the private sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009275345
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Aid, Structural Change and the Private Sector in Africa
Page, John - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
change in Africa. Africa.s development partners have devoted too few resources and too little attention to two critical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540134
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Spontaneous Privatization in the Soviet Union. How, Why and for Whom?
Johnson, S. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1991
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Entrepreneurial Activity and Civil War in Colombia: Exploring the Mutual Determinants between Armed Conflict and the Private Sector
Rettberg, Angelika; Leiteritz, Ralf; Nasi, Carlo - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
TAs elsewhere, the Colombian private sector has been accused of promoting or profiting from violence in the country. However, the private sector’s role in the armed conflict and the impact of conflict on entrepreneurial activity vary, as reflected by differences in political activism, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008456282
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Accelerating Privatizatiob in Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland.
Sachs, J.D. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005475018
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Multiactor Global Funds: New Tools to Address Urgent Global Problems
Heimans, Jeremy - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005033205
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The Development of Small Entrepreneurship in Russia
Radaev, Vadim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005033233
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Exchange Rate Regimes and Trade: Is Africa Different?
Qureshi, Mahvash Saeed; Tsangarides, Charalambos G. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
This paper revisits the link between exchange rate regimes and trade in the context of Africa’s exchange rate … Africa’s experience with that of the world. Our results suggest that both currency unions and direct pegs promote bilateral … trade in Africa vis-à-vis more flexible exchange rate regimes,and that their effect is almost double for the region than …
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