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Punjab's agricultural innovation challenge
Singh, Nirvikar - 2015
Fifty years ago, Punjab embarked on its famous Green Revolution, leading the rest of India in that innovation, and becoming the country's breadbasket. Now its economy and society are struggling by relative, and sometimes even absolute, measures. Using the original Green Revolution as a...
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Breaking the mold: Thoughts on Punjab's future economic development
Singh, Nirvikar - 2015
The economy of Punjab state in India offers an interesting case study. Punjab has been for decades - and remains - one of India's better-off states, and so it tends not be included in the primary focus of national programs meant to reduce poverty or spur economic development. But, Punjab's...
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Institutions, taxation, and market relationships in ancient Athens
Lyttkens, Carl Hampus - 2008
democracy. Between 600 and 322 B.C., Athenian society underwent significant institutional change. Rule by a birth aristocracy …
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Globalization and Child Health in Developing Countries: The Role of Democracy
Welander, Anna; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; Nilsson, Therese - 2014
variation across countries is the quality of democracy. Using panel data for 70 developing countries between 1970 and 2009 this … paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Specifically the paper examines how … globalization and a country's democratic status and historical experience with democracy, respectively, affect infant mortality. In …
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Bowling for fascism: Social capital and the rise of the Nazi Party
Satyanath, Shanker; Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2014
literature on its "dark side". We examine the role of social capital in the downfall of democracy in interwar Germany. We analyze … democracy. We also show that the effects of social capital were more important in the starting phase of the Nazi movement, and …
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God does not play dice, but people should: Random selection in politics, science and society
Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - 2014
This paper discusses and proposes random selection as a component in decision-making in society. Random procedures have played a significant role in history, especially in classical Greece and the medieval city-states of Italy. We examine the important positive features of decisions by random...
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Higher education and mortality: Legacies of an authoritarian college contraction
González, Felipe; Martínez, Luis R.; Muñoz, Pablo; … - 2023
We provide new evidence on the causal effect of higher education on mortality. Our empirical strategy exploits the reduction in college openings introduced by the Pinochet regime after the 1973 coup in Chile, which led to a sharp downward kink in college enrollment among those cohorts reaching...
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Fiscal federalism and decentralization in India
Singh, Nirvikar - 2007
This paper surveys the state of fiscal federalism in India, in the broader context of decentralization. We begin with an overview of the basic features and recent developments in intergovernmental fiscal relations, including the role of political institutions, the specifics of legislative and...
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The dynamics of reform of India's federal system
Singh, Nirvikar - 2007
This paper analyzes the process of reform of India's federal system, with a focus on fiscal federalism. We first summarize the basic features of, and recent reforms in intergovernmental relations, including the role of political institutions, assignments of expenditure responsibility and revenue...
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Fiscal decentralization in China and India: Competitive, cooperative or market preserving federalism?
Singh, Nirvikar - 2007
This paper provides a comparative assessment of fiscal decentralization in China and India, including the standard components of expenditure and revenue assignments and institutions for intergovernmental transfers, as well as the nature of subnational authorities over general economic activity....
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