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that arise along the way. Special attention is given to Norway, the world's third largest oil exporter, and the role of …
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We examine how socio-political conflict in Bolivia has affected its economic performance since the 1970s. Such conflict includes strikes, demonstrations, road blockades, and conventional rent-seeking. Since conflict has costs, it diverts resources away from production, tends to reduce investment...
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We compare and contrast the economic growth performance of Croatia and Latvia since the collapse of communism in 1991 in an attempt to understand better the extent to which the growth differential between the two countries can be traced to increased efficiency in the use of capital and other...
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around the world, pondering the question whether an abundance of natural resources is a blessing or a curse. Second, an … article discusses the experience of Norway, the world's third largest oil exporter. To date, Norway has appeared to be mostly …
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In this paper we analyze the influence of direct democratic institutions on the size and development of the shadow economies. The framework developed predicts a negative relationship between the degree of direct democracy and the size of the shadow economy. Countries where direct democratic...
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institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using …
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We identify an important feature of current digital governance systems: “third-party funded digital barter”: consumers of digital services get many digital services for free (or underpriced) and in return have personal information about themselves collected for free. In addition, the digital...
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International comparisons show that the reasons why e-government development in Germany does not occupy the desired “top spot” in rankings lie primarily in the inadequate provision of online services with little corresponding user orientation. In order to provide better and faster public...
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We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the US, the UK, Japan, and Switzerland to test several hypotheses that may explain why the aggregate Okun's coeffcients are different across countries. Specifically, we show that...
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growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank … and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule … in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …
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