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Treisman, Daniel - 2010

What explains the divergent political paths that the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have followed since the fall of the Berlin Wall? While some appear today to be consolidated democracies, others have all the features of consolidated autocracy. This study...

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Twenty years later and the socialist heritage is still kicking: The case of Russia

Ofer, Gur - 2010

Only recently, 20 years after transition to a market system, has Russia regained a similar production level it had achieved on the eve of transition in 1991. This may sound surprising, given its low productivity under central planning which dropped even lower during the last decades, and the...

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New light on China's rural elites

Gustafsson, Bjorn; Sai, Ding - 2010

This paper analyses political elites, economic elites, hybrid elite households and non-elite households in rural China … probability of becoming an economic elite is linked to the age of the head of household and to the income level of the county …, indicating that opportunities to become an economic elite have increased over time, but in a spatially uneven way.We also …

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Mozambique's elite: Finding its way in a globalized world and returning to old development models

Hanlon, Joseph; Mosse, Marcelo - 2010

What makes elites developmental instead of predatory? We argue that Mozambique's elite was developmental at independence 35 years ago. With pressure and encouragement from international forces, it became predatory. It has now partly returned to its developmental roots and is trying to use the...

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The demographic transformation of post-socialist countries

Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2010

The formerly socialist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have experienced a remarkable demographic transformation in the past twenty years. On many dimensions of fertility and family formation, much of the region now looks like Western Europe-below-replacement fertility...

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Transition, structural divergence, and performance: Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union over 2000-2007

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea - 2010

economic, social, demographic and political areas. As a result, these countries can now be grouped into four structurally …

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Civil society, institutional change and the politics of reform: The great transition

Bruszt, László; Campos, Nauro F.; Fidrmuc, Jan; … - 2010

, economic and institutional change and transformation after 1989. We collected a unique dataset on nature and intensity of … the resulting data to explain the subsequent political, economic and institutional developments in the post … after 1989, the concentration of power government and the nature and pace of economic reforms. …

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Gender differences in child investment behaviour among agricultural households: Evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants Programme

Sebastian, Ashwini; de la O Campos, Ana Paula; Daidone, … - 2016

We examine the impacts of an unconditional cash transfer in Lesotho using an experimental impact evaluation design. We find that the cash transfer led to different outcomes for girls and boys, overall favouring secondary school-aged girls. Girls in this age group were less likely to miss school,...

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Effect of girls' secondary school stipend on completed schooling, age at marriage, and age at first birth: Evidence from Bangladesh

Sayeed, Yeasmin - 2016

There are many studies on the effects of conditional cash transfer programmes on enrolment, productivity and poverty reduction but very few on causal effects on ages at marriage and first birth. And none of them considers the convergence effect. This paper provides new evidence on effects of the...

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What works to improve the quality of student learning in developing countries?

Masino, Serena; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2015

We conducted a systematic review to identify policy interventions that improve education quality and student learning in developing countries. Relying on a theory of change typology, we highlight three main drivers of change of education quality: first, supply-side capability interventions that...

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