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The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
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effectiveness of aid on conflict. Using proxies for the evolution of conflict we show that over the course of the conflict aid … aid to countries experiencing a conflict. We also show that the evolution of conflict significantly affects economic … growth providing evidence of a sort of indirect effect of aid on economic growth. …
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Conflicts and political instability have been serious constraints to growth in Guinea-Bissau. Of special concern was … estimates that GDP per capita today could have been more than 40 percent higher if there had been no conflict in 1998. In turn …, one in three persons living in poverty today might not be poor had it not been for the conflict. …
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Over the past century, the institution of capital and the process of its accumulation have been fundamentally transformed. By contrast, the theories that explain this institution and process have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to address this mismatch. Using a broad...
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This work is a PhD dissertation, written at the Department of Economics, McGill University. The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of...
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in furthering economic growth and development. The implications for the donor community of the decreasing relative … particular, that much greater care should be exercised when applying macro performance evaluation to development assistance. This …
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Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
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Trends in Globalization’ website (http://ablog.typepad.com/), the paper analyzes growth in four types of country typified by … the EU, the USA, India, and China. The fastest growth has been registered in China, which has followed a policy of … expansionary money with strong banking controls, combined with an investment-led stimulus. Strong growth has also however been …
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development addressing three fundamental structural problems: (1) In what technologies should a modernising, developmental … strategy focus? (2) What is the relation between economic and human development and how can the latter be assured by the course … reduce the consumption of resources, with all the attendant risks that beset modern development strategies including …
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overcome this problem, which is the main cause of deceleration in the growth momentum of Pakistan’s economy. Due to lack of … growth phase (1978 to 2002) in Pakistan. This paper argues that economic as well as non-economic factors are responsible for … rates in the economy, increase expenditures on infrastructural development activities and that can also increase the …
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