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Rentier Capitalism : Disorganised Development and Social Injustice in Pakistan

Ahmed, Shahid - 2016

Since the early 1950s East Asia (China, Taiwan and South Korea) and South-East Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam) have, despite war and other challenges, managed to transform the lives of their people, whereas South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) has lagged...

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Sustaining Innovation : Collaboration Models for a Complex World

MacGregor, Steven P. (ed.); Carleton, Tamara (ed.) - 2012 - 1

In many ways, the process of innovation is a constant social dance, where the best dancers thrive by adapting new steps with multiple partners. The systematic and continuous generation of value in any innovation system relies on collaboration between different groups, who must overcome multiple,...

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Kooperative Umweltpolitik und nachhaltige Innovationen : das Beispiel der chemischen Industrie

Koch, Lars (ed.); Monßen, Melanie (ed.) - 2006

in die Problemstellung: Chemische Industrie, Nachhaltigkeit und Innovationen -- Umweltinnovationen — Untersuchung von Fallstudien bei der Bayer AG -- Kooperative Umweltpolitik: Theoretische Einordnung und empirische Fallstudien -- Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer umweltorientierten...

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Inequality, Development, and the Stability of Democracy -Lipset and Three Critical Junctures in German History

Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

distributed unequally and institutions do not ensure political commitments. The results imply that for any level of development … resources for which democracy is infeasible in equilibrium irrespective of the level of development. The model also delivers …

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Watchdog or Lapdog? Media and the U.S. Government

Qian, Nancy; Yangagizawa, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Abstract This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State Department to under-report human rights violations of...

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Civic Capital as the Missing Link

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This chapter reviews the recent debate about the role of social capital in economics. We argue that all the difficulties this concept has encountered in economics are due to a vague and excessively broad definition. For this reason, we restrict social capital to the set of values and beliefs...

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The Rise and Fall of Elites: A Theory of Economic Development and Social Polarization in Rent-seeking Societies

Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

the process of development. A simple general equilibrium model of rent-seeking political elites with two productive …

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Transition Dynamics and Trade Policy Reform in Developing Countries

Francois, Joseph; Nordström, Håkan; Shiells, Clinton R. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper emphasizes the relevance of classical transition dynamics for trade policy, particularly for developing countries. The empirical evidence from cross-country growth regressions points to important transitional growth effects related to trade policy reforms. The paper employs a simple...

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Property Rights, Corruption and the Allocation of Talent: A General Equilibrium Approach

Acemoglu, Daron; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

We consider an economy where property rights are necessary to ensure sufficient rewards to ex-ante investments. Because enforcement of property rights influences the ex-post distribution of rents, there is room for corruption. We characterize the optimal organization of society and the optimal...

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Was Prometheus Unbound by Chance? Risk, Diversification and Growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper offers a theory of development which links the degree of market incompleteness to capital accumulation and … growth. At early stages of development, the presence of indivisible projects limits the degree of risk … inability to diversify idiosyncratic risks introduces high uncertainty in the growth process. The typical development pattern …

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