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Roots of dissent: Trade liberalization and the rise of populism in Brazil
Iacoella, Francesco; Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno - 2020
by the trade liberalization process implemented in Brazil between 1990 and 1995. This high impact and low duration event … and 2018 presidential elections in Brazil, which resulted in the election of a left-wing and a rightwing populist … president, respectively. The results show that trade reforms explain the rise of populism in Brazil during the last two decades …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424105
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Determinants of foreign aid in family planning: How relevant is the Mexico City Policy?
Asiedu, Elizabeth; Nanivazo, Malokele; Nkusu, Mwanza - 2013
The Mexico City Policy (MCP) prohibits the United States Agency for International Development from providing aid to international non-governmental organizations that provide abortion-related services. This paper employs a panel data of 151 developing countries over the period of 1988 - 2010, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333658
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Human capital inequality and electoral outcomes in South Africa
Bedasso, Biniam; Obikili, Nonso - 2016
This paper examines the nature and evolution of horizontal and vertical human-capital inequality in South Africa since the end of apartheid. Using census data from 1996, 2001, and 2011, we use different measures of years of schooling to examine the dynamics both across and within racial,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653913
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Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2016
Governments do not have perfect information regarding constituent priorities and needs. This lack of knowledge opens the door for groups to lobby in order to affect the government's taxation levels. We examine the political economy of decentralized revenue-raising authority in light of social...
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Political competition and tax revenues in developing countries
Yogo, Urbain Thierry; Njib, Martine M. Ngo - 2016
Building on the literature of the political economy of taxation, this article explores the relationship between political competition and tax revenues using a sample of 89 developing countries from 1988 to 2010. Owing to the inertia of tax variables, we estimate a dynamic panel data model using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653928
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Redistribution, inequality and political participation: Evidence from Mexico during the 2008 financial crisis
Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno - 2016
This paper explores the relationship between a large government cash transfer programme, changes in inequality, and political participation in Mexico. The results show that increases in the coverage of the programme during the 2008 financial crisis resulted in greater individual participation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653952
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Regime type, inequality, and redistributive transfers in developing countries
Dodlova, Marina; Giolbas, Anna - 2017
The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution is ongoing. We construct a model that predicts higher probability of redistribution in democracies than autocracies through social transfers. Higher inequality leads to more redistribution in democracies but not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654023
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Party system institutionalization and reliance on personal income tax: Exploring the relationship using new data
von Schiller, Armin - 2017
This paper explores the effect of party system institutionalization on the reliance of tax systems on the personal income tax. As a first step, the paper re-examines the relationship between party system institutionalization and taxation patterns employing the recently launched Government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654025
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Worker retraining and transfer payments: The political economy of social protection
Jain, Sanjay - 2017
We conduct an incentive-theoretical analysis of political economy considerations in the design of social protection programmes in developing countries to accompany economic reforms. We focus on two aspects of social protection - the provision of redistribution and retraining - that arguably...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654037
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Female political representation in the aftermath of ethnic violence: A comparative analysis of Burundi and Rwanda
Guariso, Andrea; Ingelaere, Bert; Verpoorten, Marijke - 2017
We study the impact of electoral gender quotas in post-war Burundi and Rwanda on women's political representation. First, we look at descriptive representation by studying the number of female representatives and the prestige of their positions in the legislative and executive branches of...
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