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The paper discusses implications for practice and theory of the recently completed Joint Evaluation of General Budget Support 2004-06 based on case studies in Burkina Faso, Malawi, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Rwanda, Uganda and Vietnam. The paper first looks at the extent to which general budget...
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Scholars and policy makers believe that democracy will bring prosperity through integration into the global economy via … increased international trade. This study tests two theories as to why democracies might trade more. First, political freedom … trade more. Second, democracy implies higher quality governance either through institutions or policy-making procedures. I …
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Industrial policy has attracted considerable controversy in the development context. This paper makes a case for a pragmatic and limited approach to interventions as a means of stimulating industrialization in the context of current and future challenges facing newly industrializing economies....
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global economy, with a special emphasis on the implications of China.s spectacular growthon developing economies and the rest … ofthe world. The issues considered include changing patterns in trade, capital flows,and commodity prices. Both positive …
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The debate on industrial policy (IP) has been characterized by a number of contractions over the concept of industrial policy, its merits, contents and application. The purpose of this exploratory paper is to review the debate on IP. Outlining the concept and instruments of industrial policy,...
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This paper examines the relationship between trade (exports), growth, and inequality, using a panel of 100 countries … over 30 years (1980 to 2010). As there is no clear theoretical relationship between trade (exports) and inequality, and as …
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This paper offers a medium-term perspective for analysing the trade openness.inequality relationship in Latin America … estimation of the association between trade openness and income distribution over the 30-year period. Our central conclusion in … this regard is that greater trade openness is associated with contemporaneous increases in inequality in the region. The …
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Given global heterogeneity in climate-induced agricultural variability, Tanzania has the potential to substantially … increase its maize exports to other countries. If global maize production is lower than usual due to supply shocks in major … countries while simultaneously decreasing the likelihood of severe precipitation deficits in Tanzania. Trade restrictions, like …
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bureaucratic there is also the complexity of a close neighbourship with the EU.s foreign policy in general, trade and the eternal …
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