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Gender bias in education during conflict : evidence from Assam

Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016

Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...

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COVID-19 : mortality, future years lost, and demographic structure : Italy and Kenya compared

Bell, Clive - 2020

COVID-19 causes extremely high mortality among the old. This motivates a comparison of the losses of future lifetime years and future lifetime years of work ensuing from a hypothetical 25,000 excess deaths in Italy, whose affluent population is one of the world's oldest, with those in Kenya,...

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Does the African middle class defend democracy? : evidence from Kenya

Cheeseman, Nic - 2014

Barrington Moore's famous line 'no bourgeoisie, no democracy' is one of the most quoted claims in political science …

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Aid and governance in vulnerable states : Bangladesh and Pakistan since 1971

Khan, Mushtaq H. - 2013

about the relationship between aid, good governance and security: better policy requires understanding the relationship …

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The impact of democracy on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa, 1982 - 2012

Masaki, Takaaki; Van de Walle, Nicolas - 2014

Does democracy promote economic growth? There is still an ongoing debate over the economic implications of democracy … 43 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period of 1982-2012, we find strong evidence that democracy is positively …

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South Africa's emerging black middle class : a harbinger of political change?

Mattes, Robert - 2014

South Africa has seen a significant increase in the size of the black middle class in the post-apartheid period, but the attitudinal consequences of indicators of the middle class, as of 2011, are inconsistent and modest in size. While members of the middle class are no more likely to hold...

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Good institutions and tax revenue outcomes in resource-rich countries : when "good" is not enough

Chachu, Daniel Ofoe - 2021

find evidence of a mitigating role for 'constraints on executive power' and 'democracy'. Other covariates found to be …

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Aid's impact on democracy

Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Horigoshi, Ana; Gisselquist, … - 2022

democratic governance. The analysis distinguishes between developmental aid and democracy aid, and examines democracy aid to …-operation and Development's (OECD) Creditor Reporting System (CRS) data on foreign aid and indices of democracy from the Varieties … of Democracy project, employing a combination of a maximum likelihood estimation and structural equation modelling (ML …

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The corruption-growth relationship : do political institutions matter?

Saha, Shrabani; Sen, Kunal - 2019

Corruption is widely believed to negatively affect economic growth. However, many East and Southeast Asia countries either achieved or currently are achieving impressively rapid economic growth despite widespread corruption - the 'East Asian Paradox'. Is this negative relationship equally likely...

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The state and development

Evans, Peter B.; Heller, Patrick - 2018

development, defined as enhanced well-being and human flourishing, and democracy, defined as accountability to the deliberatively … lessons the comparative history of the Asian state offers for development theory and policy possibilities. …

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