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State capacity, national economic policies and local development : the Russian state in the Southern Urals

Asmus, Gerda; Franck, Raphaël - 2022

This study analyzes how state capacity shapes the local impact of national policies by exploiting a quasi-natural experiment in the regional expansion of the state. It uses the local discontinuity created by the boundary of the largest peasant rebellion in 18th century Russia where the state...

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The economic effects of federalism and decentralization : a cross-country assessment

Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2009

component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining differences in (1 … study adds to our knowledge on the transmission mechanisms of federalism and decentralization. -- federalism … ; decentralization ; fiscal federalism ; economic effects of constitutions ; constitutional economics …

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Decentralization and foreign aid effectiveness : do aid modality and federal design matter in poverty alleviation?

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2010

This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we … decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that fiscal decentralization negatively impacts aid effectiveness, while measures of … political decentralization have no significant effect or even a positive one. This result is robust for grants and overall ODA …

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Market or Government Failures? : An Asian Perspective

Bhalla, A. S. - 2001

Choosing between government and market is not a very helpful exercise since both are necessary. This book argues that it is misplaced to dichotomise between government and market failures. Too much attention is generally placed on government failures and not enough on private corporate failures....

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Towards a macroprudential surveillance and remedial policy formulation system for monitoring financial crisis

Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2009

Several developing economies witnessed a large number of systemic financial and currency crises since the 1980s which resulted in severe economic, social, and political problems. The devastating impact of the 1982 and 1994-95 Mexican crises, the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, the 1998 Russian...

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Early warning system for economic and financial risks in Kazakhstan

Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Dlugosch, Dennis; Kolb, Benedikt - 2009

This paper proposes a macro-prudential financial soundness analysis that can be used by most developing and transformation countries with or without crisis experience as well as by developed countries with limited data. The objective is to detect economic and financial sector vulnerability,...

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The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine

Zon, Hans van - 2000

The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine analyses the reasons for the abysmal economic performance of Ukraine during the 1990s. The main thesis is that economic development was blocked by a set of parasitic mechanisms at all levels of the economy that prevented the development of value-added...

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The political economy of industrial policy

Juhász, Réka; Lane, Nathan - 2024

We examine the ways in which political realities shape industrial policy through the lens of modern political economy. We consider two broad “governance constraints”: i) the political forces that shape how industrial policy is chosen and ii) the ways in which state capacity affects...

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The impact of macroeconomic policies on income distribution : an empirical study

Bléjer, Mario I. - 1988

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Macroeconomic policies and poverty reduction : stylized facts and an overview of research

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