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State-building through neotrusteeship : Kosovo and East Timor in comparative perspective
Howard, Lise Morjé - 2013
operations. However, they have had divergent results in post-conflict state-building: While the state and economy are gradually …
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Heterogeneous informality in Costa Rica and Nicaragua
Alaniz, Enrique; Gindling, Thomas; Mata, Catherine; … - 2021
(2012) to test for the voluntary and involuntary nature of informal work in Nicaragua and Costa Rica, without making ad hoc … assumptions about labour market segmentation and self-selection. We find evidence of heterogeneous informality in both Nicaragua … where most workers are involuntarily informal. In Nicaragua, our results suggest that 44 per cent of wage employees are …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913519
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Asia and the world economy in historical perspective
Findlay, Ronald - 2018
This paper studies the political and economic evolution of trade and international relations of the nations and regions of Asia between themselves and the rest of the world over the past millennium, paying particular attention to: the Pax Mongolica and overland trade during the Middle Ages; the...
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Inferring the economic standard of living and health from cohort height : evidence from modern populations in developing countries
Akachi, Yoko; Canning, David - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342277
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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?
Sumner, Andrew - 2013
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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A capable state in Afghanistan : a building without a foundation?
de Weijer, Frauke - 2013
This paper argues that attempts at state-building in Afghanistan have led to institutions that are not robust. The state institutions and organizations continue to be highly dependent on external resources and technical expertise, and lack of critical mass of people able and willing to maintain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753321
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Gendered perspectives on economic growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa
Seguino, Stephanie; Were, Maureen - 2014
Researchers have linked sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) poor growth performance in recent decades to several factors, including geography, institutions, and low returns to investment. This literature has not yet integrated the research that identifies linkages between gender, economic development,...
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From fiscal stabilization to economic diversification : a developmental approach to managing resource revenues
Chang, Ha-joon; Lebdioui, Amir - 2020
The management of revenues from exhaustible natural resources involves a number of challenges. In this paper, we argue that the standard policy advice to managers of resource revenues has been dominated by short-termism and the lack of a perspective on economic development and structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265519
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Rule of law and judicial independence
Trindade, João Carlos - 2020
The rule of law and judicial independence are a project yet to be achieved in Mozambique. The different attempts made so far to reform the legal system, mainly after the change in political and strategic direction brought about by the Constitution of 1990, were always short-sighted and...
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