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Inequality and voting in fragile countries : evidence from Mozambique
Bove, Margherita; Egger, Eva-Maria; Jones, Sam; … - 2024
The political consequences of economic inequality have been debated in academic and policy circles for centuries. The nature of this relationship seems highly dependent on specific contexts, with empirical studies showing mixed evidence on how economic inequality affects voting and other forms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014481167
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Ethnicity is not public service destiny : the political logic of service distribution in South Africa
Porten, John; Rhee, Inbok; Gibson, Clark C. - 2021
remains highly uneven across the country. Most studies of service provision in Africa assume that politicians will target … provision from the start. Rather than assuming that ethnicity underlies service distribution in Africa, we argue that … councillors and their mayor helps to account for the variation in service provision across South Africa's municipalities. We test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509570
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Unofficial sovereign wealth funds and duration in power in Africa
Nawo, Larissa; Avom, Désiré; McNabb, Kyle; Nembot, Luc - 2019
This paper argues that in weak states, leaders whose hold on power is secured by the public fortune have turned to the use of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), especially unofficial SWFs, to cement their hold on power. Unofficial SWFs are private funds created from resource rents with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098407
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Worker retraining and transfer payments : the political economy of social protection
Jain, Sanjay - 2017
We conduct an incentive-theoretical analysis of political economy considerations in the design of social protection programmes in developing countries to accompany economic reforms. We focus on two aspects of social protection - the provision of redistribution and retraining - that arguably...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011611222
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"Delangokubona" and the distribution of rents and opportunity : an exploration of tensions over race-based policies of redress and redistribution in South Africa
Cawe, Ayabonga - 2022
society as unequal as South Africa. The history of racial capitalism, racebased exclusion from economic participation, and an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013260025
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Building a conservative welfare state in Botswana
Seekings, Jeremy - 2017
Botswana's welfare state is both a parsimonious laggard in comparison with some other middle-income countries in Africa … (such as Mauritius and South Africa) and extensive (in comparison with its low-income neighbours to the north and east … contract - to those of its neighbours in Southern Africa. It is the result of the specific character of poverty in Botswana and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634633
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The rise and fall of decentralization in contemporary Uganda
Green, Elliott D. - 2013
There has long been an emphasis on the importance of decentralization in providing better quality public services in the developing world. In order to assess the effectiveness of decentralization I examine here the case study of Uganda, which has seen major decentralization of power over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784725
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Do gifts buy votes? : evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Guardado, Jenny; Wantchekon, Leonard - 2021
Vote-buying-or the pre-electoral distribution of private goods in exchange for support at the ballot box-is often blamed for the poor economic performance of many sub-Saharan countries. For instance, vote-buying may undermine accountability and the implementation of sound development policies by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012595865
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Gender implications of biofuels expansion : a CGE analysis for Mozambique
Arndt, Channing; Benfica, Rui; Thurlow, James - 2010
. -- Biofuels ; gender ; poverty ; growth ; Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662852
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Mozambique's elite : finding its way in a globalized world and returning to old development models
Hanlon, Joseph; Mosse, Marcelo - 2010
development in Latin America, or Volkskapitalisme in apartheid South Africa. But Mozambique's elite has also returned to two other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008663003