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Duara, Prasenjit - 2018

This paper identifies historic patterns in the dialectic between nationalism and development across various East, South …, and Southeast Asian nations. Nationalism as the rationale for development is used by regimes to achieve high levels of … growth, but also generates exclusivism and hostilities, often in order to integrate a political core. Popular nationalism has …

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Asian development after the Asian Drama

Kozul-Wright, Richard; Poon, Daniel - 2018

these policy tools to achieve stated objectives; and (iii) the overall development trends observed in the Asia region. The …

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A short history of India's economy : a chapter in the Asian drama

Basu, Kaushik - 2018

This paper is a short history of the Indian economy since 1968. India today is a changed country from what it was half a century ago, when Myrdal published his Asian Drama. The stranglehold of low growth has been broken, its population below the poverty line has fallen markedly, and India has...

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War violence, nationalism, and party support : evidence from Italy

Lemoli, Giacomo; Gennaro, Gloria - 2023

Under what conditions can legacies of past violence shape political behaviour? We propose a theory of how war victimization defines attitudes over the long run, and how these can be activated by changes in the political environment. We argue that exposure to violence by members of a different...

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Regional integration in Africa : challenges and prospects

De Melo, Jaime; Tsikata, Yvonne M. - 2014

Political motives, geography, and the uneven distribution of gains trumped the traditional efficiency gains across Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs). The small, sparsely populated, fragmented, and often isolated economies across Africa make a compelling case for these economies to...

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Could free trade alleviate effects of climate change? : a worldwide analysis with emphasis on Morocco and Turkey

Ouraich, Ismail; Dudu, Hasan; Tyner, Wallace E.; … - 2014

This paper examines the interaction of globalization through trade liberalization and climate change, globally with a special focus on Morocco and Turkey. We use the GTAP model, which is a global general equilibrium model, to investigate trade liberalization welfare impacts under climate change,...

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Trade liberalization and South African manufacturing : looking back with data

Driver, Ciaran F. - 2019

This paper provides a retrospective assessment of the effects of trade policies on South African manufacturing since the transition to democracy, examining the differences and commonalities in the views of economists in favour of and against an acceleration of trade liberalization. Data from the...

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Tax revenue implications of trade liberalization in low-income countries

Moller, Lovisa - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016

Liberalizing trade has proven highly challenging for some low-income countries, as a large share of their tax extraction derives from trade taxation. After significant drops in tariff levels over the last 30 years, the recovery of lost revenues by other sources of taxation has been highly uneven...

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Trade liberalization and the rise of populism in Brazil

Iacoella, Francesco; Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno - 2020

This paper investigates the long-term impact of economic shocks on populism, by exploiting a natural experiment created by the trade liberalization process implemented in Brazil between 1990 and 1995. This high impact and low duration event generated a profound shock to the economy with, we...

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Globalization and exclusionary urban growth in Asian countries

Kundu, Amitabh; Kundu, Debolina - 2010

deceleration. This questions the postulate of the epicentre of urbanization shifting to Asia. It also lends credence to the thesis … attract global and domestic capital into cities, governments would not interfere with 'elitist interests'. Asia, thus, is …

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