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Are electoral coalitions harmful for democratic consolidation in Africa?

Resnick, Danielle - 2011

Electoral coalitions are becoming increasingly popular among opposition parties in Africa because they offer many … in terms of their policy orientation. Based on a dataset spanning all opposition coalitions since 2000 in Africa …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280093

Fiscal policy, state building and economic development

Addison, Tony; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2018

This paper presents a synopsis of the contextual conditions, factors and challenges under which the recent evolution of tax systems has taken place over the past three decades. The paper gives especial emphasis to the role of natural endowments, political economy, social structure and history,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943812

Ghana: Poverty reduction over thirty years

McKay, Andy; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tarp, Finn - 2015

Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since the mid-1980s. This paper analyses the nature of the growth and then presents an analysis of the evolution of both consumption poverty and non-monetary poverty outcomes over this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418585

Capital flight and development: An overview of concepts, methods, and data sources

Johannesen, Niels; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2016

This paper offers a critical review of the methods used to estimate the extent of capital flight and illicit financial flows from developing countries. The largest estimates in the literature are based on imperfect methods with a great margin for error. Emerging new studies have built on...

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The mitigating role of tax and benefit rescue packages for poverty and inequality in Africa amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Lastunen, Jesse; Rattenhuber, Pia; Adu-Ababio, Kwabena; … - 2021

This paper analyses the distributional effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and related tax-benefit measures in 2020 in a cross-country comparative perspective for five African countries: Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We first estimate the impact of the crisis on disposable...

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Foreign aid in Africa: Tracing channels of influence on democratic transitions and consolidation

Resnick, Danielle - 2012

How does aid impact democracy in sub-Saharan Africa? Drawing on existing literature, this study elaborates on the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319801

Populist strategies in African democracies

Resnick, Danielle - 2010

strategies by political parties during recent presidential elections in Kenya, South Africa, and Zambia. Specifically, the paper … argues that the nature of party competition in Africa, combined with rapid urbanization and informalization of the labour … Africa intersect with voting behaviour and political party development. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280234

The political participation of Africa's youth: Turnout, partisanship, and protest

Resnick, Danielle; Casale, Daniela - 2011

The youth have long represented an important constituency for electoral mobilization in Africa. Today, as the region … generational identities within the region, very little is really known about the political participation of Africa's youth. In … order to address this issue, we combine country-level variables for 19 of Africa's most democratic countries with individual …

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