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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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so in Ghana, with a focus on the role of aid in the process of state building and state transition in these two countries …. Before the 1960s, South Korea and Ghana shared approximately similar levels of GDP per capita. However, while South Korea … achieved rapid economic development and democracy in one generation, Ghana suffered from slow development and a general …
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political economy in a way that engendered growth. Ghana provides a good case for an assessment of this question as it saw …-led growth. It also argues that aid has helped shape macroeconomic management in Ghana, identifying three channels through which … policy direction in Ghana. It concludes by arguing that the aid-induced policy has helped in the operation of a more …
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This study examines the structural transformation-inclusive growth nexus for Ghana. The data cover the post …-independence period for Ghana and are phased into three periods: the post-independence period to the start of the economic recovery …
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management of the utilization of such resources. Ghana's endowment with significant amount of ferrous and non-ferrous minerals … transformations that have resulted in improvements in the mining sector in the country. Drawing largely on the case of Ghana, this … content of a regulatory system in the mining sector of Ghana and throws light on the practical challenges (technical and …
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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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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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of the New World; the spread of European imperialism and the rise of nationalism and the achievement of independence. A …
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Average adult height is a physical measure of the biological standard of living of a population. While the biological and economic standards of living of a population are very different concepts, they are linked and may empirically move together. If this is so, then cohort heights can also be...
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The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary threshold in per capita income but it does matter...
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