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Cultural rights and civic virtue
Ford, Richard T. - 2003
This paper addresses the potential tension between two broadly stated policy objectives: the preservation of distinctive cultural traditions, often through the mechanism of formal legal rights, and the fostering of civic virtue, a sense of local community and the advancement of common civic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592750
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Financing growth : foreign aid vs. foreign loans
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Lahiri, Sajal; Younas, Javed - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010193408
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The impact of fiscal decentralization : a survey
Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; Lago Peñas, Santiago; Sacchi, … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450625
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"Grease" or "sand" the wheels of economic development : a meta-analysis of corruption
Hugo, Ella; Savage, David; Torgler, Benno - 2021
Corruption literature within economics has long returned ambiguous results with no concise cause or impact of … corruption identified. This meta-analysis aims to find synergy within the corruption literature by assessing macroeconomic … empirical studies that evaluate whether corruption "greases or sands" the wheels of economic development. The meta …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012522615
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The right tax at the right time
Kleinbard, Edward D. - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011702314
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Foreign direct investment, aid, and terrorism : an analysis of developing countries
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Sandler, Todd; Younas, Javed - 2011
Using a dynamic panel data framework, we investigate the relationship between the two major forms of terrorism and foreign direct investment (FDI). We then analyze how these relationships are affected by foreign aid flows. The analysis focuses on 78 developing countries for 1984- 2008. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008840976
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A hundred key questions for the post-2015 development agenda
2015
the thematic priorities that guided the "World We Want" campaign—a global stakeholder consultation conducted by the UN … discussed and shortlisted during a two-day workshop with academic and practitioners representing different world regions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485119
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Trading favors? : UN Security Council membership and subnational favoritism in aid recipients
Perrotta Berlin, Maria; Desai, Raj M.; Olofsgård, Anders - 2022
-permanent) membership on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on the subnational distribution of World Bank aid. Specifically, we … analyze whether World Bank projects are targeted to regions in which the head of state was born, or to regions dominated by … regions) receive significantly more World Bank projects and loan commitments during UNSC membership years compared to other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167732
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From institutions to financial development and growth : what are the links?
Fernández, Andrés; Tamayo, César E. - 2015
This paper presents an integrated overview of the literature linking institutions, financial development and economic growth. From the large body of research on institutional development, the paper first selects those contributions that make it possible to study the role of institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290078
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Resource curse or blessing? : sovereign risk in resource-rich emerging economies
Hamann S., Franz A.; Mendoza, Enrique G.; … - 2018
In this paper we document the stylized facts about the relationship between international oil price swings, sovereign risk and macroeconomic performance of oil-exporting economies. We show that even though being a bigger oil producer decreases sovereign risk–because it increases a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950480