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Colonial legacies and social welfare regimes in Africa : an empirical exercise

Mkandawire, Thandika - 2016

This paper identifies three types of welfare regimes in Africa, based on the insight that tax and expenditure regimes …, demonstrating that welfare regimes in Africa have been strongly determined by the ways in which different countries were … expenditure has tended to obscure this important aspect of welfare regimes in Africa. …

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Cost-reducing R&D in the presence of an appropriation alternative : an application to the natural resource curse

Martin Puzon, Klarizze Anne - 2013 - This version: January 2013

This study proposes a new mechanism for the resource curse: crowding-out of innovation due to the existence of an option to engage in conflict. Using a game theoretical framework, it is argued that an increase in the amount of natural resources (in the informal sector here conflict for a...

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The erosion of colonial trade linkages after independence

Mayer, Thierry (contributor); Head, Keith (contributor); … - 2008

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Enforcement and the effective regulation of labor

Ronconi, Lucas - 2015

This paper provides new measures of labor law enforcement across the world. The constructed dataset shows that countries with more stringent de jure regulation tend to enforce less. While civil law countries tend to have more stringent de jure labor codes as predicted by legal origin theory,...

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