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Industrial policy in practice: Africa.s Presidential Investors. Advisory Councils
Page, John - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Recent writing on industrial policy stresses the need for coordination between the public and private sectors. This paper examines the performance of one such coordination mechanism, Presidential Investors. Advisory Councils, in Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzani
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076171
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Consociational settlements and reconstruction: Bosnia in comparative perspective, 1995-present
Stroschein, Sherrill - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
the immediate aftermath of their brokered peace negotiations and consociational institutions, in Bosnia in 1995 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739463
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Who.s the alien?: Xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa
Duponchel, Marguerite - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
In May 2008, South Africa became the theatre of widespread violent attacks against undesirable .outsiders.. Over 60 were killed, hundreds wounded, and tens of thousands displaced. This analysis aims at identifying the characteristics of the victims in an
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643224
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Urban Violence Is not (Necessarily) a Way of Life
Rodgers, Dennis - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
association between cities, violence, and disorder is not new, however. In a classic article on ‘Urbanism as a way of life’, Louis … necessarily lead to urban violence. This is a standpoint that is further reinforced by the fact that not all cities around the … heterogeneous individuals give rise to violence, while in others they don’t, focusing in particular on wider structural factors as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518136
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The Market for Extortions
Mehlum, Halvor; Moene, Karl Ove; Torvik, Ragnar - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005001246
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Globalization and the Urban Poor
Perlman, Janice E. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007
The focus of this paper is the effect of contemporary globalization on poverty and inequality in cities of the ?global south?. Specifically it addresses the impact of globalization on marginalized communities?slums, squatter settlements and shantytowns?collectively called ?informal settlements?....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059801
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Predicting Violence within Genocides: Meso-level evidence from Rwanda
McDoom, Omar Shahabudin - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
Can we predict when and where violence will break out within cases of genocide? Given often weak political will to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010616777
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Non-state Sovereign Entrepreneurs and Non-territorial Sovereign Organizations
Brauer1, Jurgen; Haywood, Robert - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
We propose two new concepts, of non-state sovereign entrepreneurs and the non-territorial sovereign organizations they form, and relate them to issues pertaining to state sovereignty, governance failures, and violent social conflict over the appropriation of the powers that accrue to states in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008456284
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The risks to education systems from design mismatch and global isomorphism: Concepts, with examples from India
Pritchett, Lant - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
The incredibly low levels of learning and the generally dysfunctional public sector schooling systems in many (though not all) developing countries are the result of a capability trap (Pritchett et al. 2010). Two phenomena reinforce persistent failure of
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854522
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Growth of African economies: Productivity, policy syndromes, and the importance of institutions
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
Recent evidence from an exhaustive political economy study of growth of African economies.the growth project of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) suggests that .policy syndromes. have substantially contributed to the generally poor growth in
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854523