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This paper argues that high political competition does not necessarily induce policy makers to perform better as previous research has shown. We develop a political economy model and we show that when political competition is tight, and elected politicians can rely on more tax instruments, they...
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After the Golden Age, Italy experienced increasing difficulties in adjusting its economy to the changing external context and to the requirements for sustaining catch-up growth at a higher level of economic development. The adjustment issue is common to advanced countries but the difficulties...
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This paper develops a dynamic framework to analyze the political sustainability of economic reforms in developing countries. First, we demonstrate that economic reforms that are proceeding successfully may run into a political impasse, with the reform’s initial success having a negative impact...
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economies (or, in the case of China, its continued rise), the core institutions of communist rule and their evolution, and other … continual institutional change and policy reform in the face of resistance from established interests. So far, China is the only … stakeholders. The paper places the “China Deal” on a spectrum previously limited to the Soviet Big and Little Deals …
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difficult to identify the mechanism by which the more pro-business policies of the government were translated to higher growth … services grew as rapidly in India as in China, so that it cannot be said that growth in India was based more on domestic demand …
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The relative performance of China and India is compared using two different methods and they provide a very different … goods and services and of gross fixed capital formation. Using a two tailed- test we find that China does better than India … for most of these indicators. For instance, China has a higher growth rate of per capita income, XGS and GFCF as also a …
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