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The saga and limits of public financial management : the Mozambican case
Cruz, António; Ferreira, Ines A.; Flentø, Johnny; … - 2021
At independence in 1975, the Frelimo government took over public administration from the colonial system and started to transform it. The public financial management (PFM) system was adapted to the central planning and management of the economy in line with nationalist and Marxist-Leninist...
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Economic development and institutions in Mozambique : factors affecting public financial management
Cruz, António; Mafambissa, Fausto J. - 2020
decentralization as key factors affecting the public financial management system. As the current strategy based on natural resources …
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Elites and institutional persistence
Robinson, James A. - 2010
Particular sets of institutions, once they become established in a society, have a strong tendency to persist. In this paper I argue that understanding how elites form and reproduce is key to understanding the persistence of institutions over time. I illustrate this idea with a simple political...
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Educational assistance and education quality in Indonesia : the role of decentralization
Sari, Virgi - 2018
We examine the evolution of educational assistance in Indonesia, following two decades of government decentralization …, and its effect on education quality. Using Indonesia Family Life Survey data, we exploit as exogenous rule the variation … in the implementation of government decentralization to compute difference-in-difference estimators. Indicative evidence …
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Fiscal decentralization and urbanization in Indonesia
Comola, Margherita; Mello, Luiz R. de - 2010
Indonesia went through a process of fiscal decentralization in 2001 involving the devolution of several policymaking … dataset of local governments for 1996 and 2004-05 to estimate the effect of the decentralization of minimum-wage setting in …), the urban population would have risen by an additional 0.4 per cent from its initial level. -- Indonesia ; minimum wage …
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Innovation and dynamism : interaction between systems and technical progress
Kornai, János - 2010
Literature on post-socialist transformation usually deals with the political, economic and social sides of it, although there have also been important changes in the field of technical advance in the last 20 years. One of capitalism's main virtues is the strong incentive it gives to dynamism,...
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Benign growth : structural transformation and inclusive growth in Thailand
Warr, Peter George; Suphannachart, Waleerat - 2020
Between 1981 and 2017, real gross domestic product in Thailand grew at an average annual rate of 5.7 per cent. Agricultural output grew more slowly than industry or services, and its gross domestic product share consequently declined. Industry's gross domestic product share increased, and the...
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Was Kuznets right? : new evidence on the relationship between structural transformation and inequality
Baymul, Çinar; Sen, Kunal - 2019
We examine the Kuznets postulate that structural transformation leads to higher inequality using comparable panel data for a large number of developing and developed countries for 1960-2012. Countries are in different stages of structural transformation, being either structurally...
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Misuse of institutions : lessons from Transition
Poliščuk, Leonid - 2010
The paper explores a phenomenon often observed in transition economies, when newly established institutions are misused, i.e., applied or resorted to for reasons which have little in common with their intended or anticipated purpose. In such incidences institutions become sources of private...
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Foreign aid for capacity-building to address climate change : insights and applications
Victor, David G. - 2013
The paper examines the role of foreign aid in building capacity to address climate change. While the experience with this topic is relatively recent and not yet extensive, analogous questions have arisen in many other areas of foreign aid. It is likely that climate change aid programmes work...
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