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Democracy and Foreign Education
Spilimbergo, Antonio - 2007
Do foreign-educated individuals play a role in promoting democracy in their home countries? Despite the large amount of … foster democracy in their home countries. Using a unique panel dataset on foreign students starting from 1950, I show that …, indeed, foreign-educated individuals promote democracy in their home country, but only if the foreign education is acquired …
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Ethnic Diversity, Democracy, and Corruption
Yehoue, Etienne B. - 2007
I study the link between ethnic diversity, democracy, and corruption. In a static model, I show that contrary to … conventional wisdom, corruption might emerge as a negative externality of democracy. This occurs through ethnicity, which appears … technology of extraction operates only at the early stage of democracy. Its impact tends to phase out as democracy matures. In …
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Food prices and political instability
Arezki, Rabah; Brückner, Markus - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486216
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Food Prices and Political Instability
Arezki, Rabah - 2011
We examine the effects that variations in the international food prices have on democracy and intra-state conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402204
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The Uruguay Round and Net Food Importers
Eiteljörge, Uwe - 1995
This paper attempts to assess the incremental external financing requirements occasioned by changes in world food prices, due to implementation of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, for a sample of 57 developing countries. Based on estimates of changes in food prices due to the Round...
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Trade Policy and Market Structure Interactions in Developing Countries
International Monetary Fund - 1989
This paper shows that the presence of quotas on imported inputs that are based on installed capacity can lead to capacity underutilization in manufacturing industries of developing countries. A replacement of such quotas, by tariffs leads to full capacity utilization under assumptions of both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396017
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Response of the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate to Real Disturbances in Developing Countries
Khan, Mohsin S. - 1991
Using a simple dependent - economy framework, this paper outlines the links between the equilibrium real exchange rate and some of its fundamental exogenous determinants, mainly terms of trade movements and commercial policy changes. Drawing on existing studies of trade flows in developing...
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Environmental Protectionism, North-South Trade, and the Uruguay Round
Sorsa, Piritta - 1995
The paper seeks to provide an overview of the present state of debate on trade, environment and the GATT for developing countries. Potential for green protectionism and relevant GATT rules are discussed in three areas: i) environmental product regulations including eco-labeling and other product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396257
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Chile's Rapid Growth in the 1990's-Good Policies, Good Luck, or Political Change?
Jadresic, Esteban - 2000
Chile’s average economic growth between 1990 and 1998 was above 7 percent per year, more than double than in previous decades, and higher than in any other Latin American country in the same period. This paper assesses empirically the main hypotheses suggested in the literature about the...
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Now or later? : the political economy of public investment in democracies
Gupta, Sanjeev; Liu, Estelle; Mulas Granados, Carlos - 2015
This paper explores the impact of political and institutional variables on public investment. Working with a sample of 80 presidential and parliamentary democracies between 1975 and 2012, we find that the rate of growth of public investment is higher at the beginning of electoral cycles and...
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