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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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Mining and economic development : did China's WTO accession affect African local economic development?
Addison, Tony; Boly, Amadou; Mveyange, Anthony - 2016
this exogenous variation, we show that during 2002-07, mining activities in response to the global commodity price …
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The impact of mining on spatial inequality : recent evidence from Africa
Addison, Tony; Boly, Amadou; Mveyange, Anthony - 2017
This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … identification strategy is based on a unilateral causation between mining and district inequality. The findings show that when … minerals are aggregated, mining increases district inequality. But an analysis of individual minerals shows that mining affects …
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Can mining promote industrialization? : a comparative analysis of policy frameworks in three Southern African countries
Fessehaie, Judith; Rustomjee, Zavareh; Kaziboni, Lauralyn - 2016
power relationships, in terms of control over mining rents, relationships between mining companies and domestic business …
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Extractive industries and development : lessons from international experience for Mozambique
Roe, Alan - 2018
In common with several other low-income African economies, in recent years Mozambique has seen a significant expansion of interest and investment in its long-established extractives industries. Huge new gas finds in particular have led to expectations that these industries will contribute very...
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the economy in Southern Africa
Makgetla, Neva Seidman - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has had severe economic consequences in Southern Africa, resulting in an unprecedented decline in production and employment. Similar policy responses have emerged across the region, centred on temporary and inadequate relief for workers and businesses; very limited fiscal...
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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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Lessons from post-colonial Malaysian economic development
Jomo Kwame Sundaram; Wee Chong Hui - 2010
Malaysian economic development has been shaped by public policy in response to changing national and external conditions. Public investments peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s, until the policy reversals driven by sovereign debt concerns and new policy ideology fads. Foreign investments...
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Management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kerala through the lens of state capacity and clientelism
Chathukulam, Jos; Joseph, Manasi - 2022
During the first wave of COVID-19 infections, Kerala, a state in southern India, successfully managed to contain the pandemic. As a result, the Kerala model of managing the COVID-19 pandemic was celebrated as a success across the globe. However, at the time of writing, it looks like the...
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The political economy dimensions of macroeconomic management of aid in Ghana
Osei, Robert Darko; Asem, Freda; Domfe, George - 2013
This paper contributes to the debate on aid effectiveness by looking at the 'how' of aid effectiveness. In other words it provides an assessment of whether aid only filled a financing gap or whether it, in addition, helped influence the political economy in a way that engendered growth. Ghana...
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