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Benign growth: Structural transformation and inclusive growth in Thailand
Warr, Peter George; Suphannachart, Waleerat - 2020
Between 1981 and 2017, real gross domestic product in Thailand grew at an average annual rate of 5.7 per cent. Agricultural output grew more slowly than industry or services, and its gross domestic product share consequently declined. Industry's gross domestic product share increased, and the...
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Social and political capital in rural Viet Nam
Markussen, Thomas - 2015
This paper exploits five waves of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) to investigate issues of social and political capital in rural Viet Nam. I analyse membership of the Communist Party, 'mass organizations' (Farmers' Union, Women's Union, etc.) and other voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418649
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Economic development and institutions in Mozambique: Factors affecting public financial management
Cruz, António; Mafambissa, Fausto J. - 2020
Mozambique has achieved incipient but still fragile socio-economic development since 1975. The public financial management system has been reformed and improved, but its performance has weakened since 2013. Applying an institutional economics approach, we have identified the economic growth...
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The saga and limits of public financial management: The Mozambican case
Cruz, António; Ferreira, Ines A.; Flentø, Johnny; … - 2021
At independence in 1975, the Frelimo government took over public administration from the colonial system and started to transform it. The public financial management (PFM) system was adapted to the central planning and management of the economy in line with nationalist and Marxist-Leninist...
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Innovation and dynamism: Interaction between systems and technical progress
Kornai, János - 2010
Literature on post-socialist transformation usually deals with the political, economic and social sides of it, although there have also been important changes in the field of technical advance in the last 20 years. One of capitalism's main virtues is the strong incentive it gives to dynamism,...
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Was Kuznets right? New evidence on the relationship between structural transformation and inequality
Baymul, Çinar; Sen, Kunal - 2019
We examine the Kuznets postulate that structural transformation leads to higher inequality using comparable panel data for a large number of developing and developed countries for 1960-2012. Countries are in different stages of structural transformation, being either structurally...
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The Nordic development and growth models: The riddle is still there but we may be a little bit wiser
Vartiainen, Juhana - 2010
The Nordic countries are often bundled together, as representatives of a 'model' which combines high living standards and an open market economy with social insurance and ambitious public services. Yet, the economic and political development of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden towards this...
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Invisible, successful, and divided Vietnamese in Germany since the late 1970s
Bösch, Frank; Su, Phi Hong - 2018
, in particular, had not yet been confronted with non-European refugees. This changed after 1978 with the influx of around … offers a strategic case for understanding factors that shaped the arrival and resettlement experiences of Vietnamese refugees … not be uniformly positive for immigrants and refugees to have an integration experience deemed successful. …
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Is the education of local children influenced by living nearby a refugee camp? Evidence from host communities in Rwanda
Bilgili, Özge; Fransen, Sonja; Loschmann, Craig; … - 2018
children are influenced by the presence of a refugee camp in or around their community. Taking the case of Congolese refugees … views regarding the effects of refugees on local education. These results contribute to the body of literature on the … effects of refugees on host communities and inform policies on how refugees need not be a "burden" if long-term investments …
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The impact of educational achievement on the integration and wellbeing of Afghan refugee youth in the UK
Gladwell, Catherine; Thomas, Jennie; Chetwynd, Georgina; … - 2018
the experiences of child refugees and asylum seekers, less is documented about the experiences of former unaccompanied …
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