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) authoritarian societies in order to strengthen their democracy. Special attention is paid to gender justice. Illustrations are drawn …
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Bangladesh and Pakistan had very divergent experiences with aid after 1971. Politics in Pakistan was less inclusive in terms of opportunities for intermediate class political entrepreneurs. In this context, the significant role of military aid to Pakistan had very negative effects on its...
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literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid-especially democracy aid-have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors … most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus on 'democracy aid' as an aggregate … category, its subcomponents (e.g. aid to elections), and 'developmental aid'. Overall, the evidence suggests that i) democracy …
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all donors promised to support democracy in MENA countries, none had a clear strategy for doing so via their development …
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The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights. The analysis employs data for 125 countries and uses a number of panel data methods. The...
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Legal empowerment has become widely accepted in development policy circles as an approach to addressing poverty and exclusion. At the same time, it has received relatively little attention from political scientists and sociologists working on overlapping and closely related topics. Research on...
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Corruption is widely believed to negatively affect economic growth. However, many East and Southeast Asia countries either achieved or currently are achieving impressively rapid economic growth despite widespread corruption - the 'East Asian Paradox'. Is this negative relationship equally likely...
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development, defined as enhanced well-being and human flourishing, and democracy, defined as accountability to the deliberatively …
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dynamic economy-wide models for Ethiopia and Uganda that capture both traditional aspects of the debate (growth linkages and …
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the distributional effect of taxes and transfers (through social protection) using Ethiopia as a case study. We find that … currently Ethiopia's flagship social protection programme is more effective than income taxation in achieving poverty reduction … Ethiopia would have the capacity to achieve the desired level of redistribution by applying higher marginal rates on relatively …
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