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The Elusive Miracle. Latin America in the 1990s.
Buendia, H-G - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1996
Since the beginning of the 1990s, there has been a lot of enthusiasm over the anticipated Latin American 'miracle'. In this study, Professor Hernando Gomez Buendia explores the background, facts and achievements of the development experience in the region during the 1990s. He discusses in depth...
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Are Biofuels Good for African Development? An Analytical Framework with Evidence from Mozambique and Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Msangi, Siwa; Thurlow, James - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008675784
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Policing reforms and economic development in African states: Understanding the linkages: empowering change
Marenin, Otwin - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
The notion that economic development in African states requires minimal levels of security has become widely accepted in the international development community. Reforming non-functioning policing systems is an important step toward achieving security, ye
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Aid and Rent-Driven Growth: Mauritania, Kenya and Mozambique Compared
Auty, Richard M. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007
This paper conceptualises foreign aid as a geopolitical form of rent in order to help distinguish the conditions under which aid is detrimental to sustained economic recovery from those where it is beneficial. Foreign aid shares with natural resource rent and contrived (i.e., government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059893
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External Liberalization, Economic Performance, and Distribution in Latin America and Elsewhere.
Taylor, L. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2000
As seen from the year 2001, economic policy in developing and post-socialist economies during the preceding 10-15 years had one dominating theme - external "liberalization" or the drastic lowering or removal of long-standing barriers to almost all international transactions in markets for goods...
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The Political economy of the Peace Process in a Changing Middle East.
Moustafa, M.A. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1995
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Mozambique’s Elite – Finding its Way in a Globalized World and Returning to Old Development Models
Hanlon, Joseph; Mosse, Marcelo - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
development in Latin America, or Volkskapitalisme in apartheid South Africa. But Mozambique’s elite has also returned to two other …What makes elites developmental instead of predatory? We argue that Mozambique’s elite was developmental at … traditions – that development is done by the elite and by foreigners. There is little support for development of local SMEs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671379
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Engaging with fragile and conflict-affected states: An alternative approach to theory, measurement and practice
Woolcock, Michael - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
The coherence and effectiveness of engagement with the world.s .fragile and conflict-affected states..beyond ethical imperatives and geo-strategic considerations.turns on answers to two vexing questions. First, on what defensible basis is any given countr
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The Long-Run Weight of Communism or the Weight of Long-Run History?
Roland, Gerald - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
This study provides evidence that culture understood as values and beliefs moves very slowly. Despite massive institutional change, values and beliefs in transition countries have not changed much over the last 20 years. Evidence suggests that culture is affected by the long run historical past,...
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Understanding the Relationship between Institutions and Economic Development: Some Key Theoretical Issues
Chang, Ha-Joon - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006
The paper tries to improve our understanding on the role of institutions in development by critically examining the current orthodox discourse on institutions and highlighting some of its key problems. After discussing some definitional problems, the chapter examines a number of problems in the...
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