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The Brazilian regional development funds and economic growth : a spatial panel approach
Cravo, Túlio A.; Resende, Guilherme Mendes - 2015
The regional development policy in Brazil materializes mainly in the regional development funds for the north-east (FNE), the north (FNO), and the centre-west (FCO), in which more than EUR36 billion was invested between 2004 and 2010. This paper examines the economic effect of these regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392771
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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 paper investigates China's influence on local economic development in 37 African countries between 1997 and 2007. We compare the average changes in economic growth, migration, spatial inequality, and welfare of mineral-rich districts, both prior and after China's WTO Accession, to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571830
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Nationalism and development in Asia
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895540
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Capitalism and African business cultures
Taylor, Scott D. - 2014
Scholars and practitioners once commonly linked 'African culture' to a distinctive 'African capitalism', at odds with … genuine capitalism and the demands of modern business. Yet contemporary African business cultures reveal that a capitalist … African big business reveals that business and profit are culturally acceptable. Existing theories of African capitalism are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251679
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The expansion of regional supermarket chains
Das Nair, Reena; Chisoro, Shingie - 2015
Over the past two decades, southern African countries have experienced rapid growth in the number and spread of supermarkets. Several factors have been attributed to this growth, including increasing urbanization, increased per capita income, the rise of the middle class, economies of scale and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011385300
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Social and political capital in rural Viet Nam
Markussen, Thomas - 2015
This paper exploits five waves of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) to investigate issues of social and political capital in rural Viet Nam. I analyse membership of the Communist Party, 'mass organizations' (Farmers' Union, Women's Union, etc.) and other voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336547
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Varieties of capitalists? : the middle class, private sector and economic outcomes in Africa
Handley, Antoinette - 2014
Political scientists have generally seen two key features of African political economies - a relatively small or absent middle class, and a middle class that is unusually embedded in the state - as key explanations of the troubled political and economic trajectories of many African societies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393289
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Global capitalism theory and the emergence of transnational elites
Robinson, William I. - 2010
it in terms of global market integration. -- Elites ; development ; globalization ; transnational ; capitalism ; crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008660897
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The potential of extractive industries as anchor investments for broader regional development
Östensson, Olle - 2020
The paper reviews what we know about the possibilities of designing and implementing policy measures that raise the contribution of the extractive industries' production/consumption links to economic growth and wellbeing, and reviews how policies pursued by various governments have succeeded. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240373
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Group inequality and regional development : evidence from Pakistan
Majid, Hadia; Memon, Rashid - 2016
This study explores the patterns and consequences of ethnic and regional inequalities in Pakistan. Using inter-district variation in inequality, ethnic fractionalization, and access to public goods, we extend the literature on public service provisioning by using finer estimates of between-group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573250