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Fifty years a-growing : economic history and demography in the ESR
Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2019
This paper surveys publications in the fields of economic history and demography in the ESR since 1969. Numbering sixty in all, they cover a broad chronological and thematic range. Some of these papers never attracted much notice, but stand as useful sources for future historians. A few have...
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Inequality, institutions and cooperation
Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020
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Are new states more corrupt? : expert opinions vs. firms' experiences
Adhikari, Tamanna; Breen, Michael; Gillanders, Robert - 2017
We find that new states are perceived to be more corrupt even though businesses do not report more bribery in newer states. This is suggestive of an unearned, and likely high, reputational cost to being a new state. These findings hold over a number of specifications that include additional...
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World Bank questions its Mozambique "success" : "remarkable growth" and oligarchs have brought high inequality, poverty and corruption
Hanlon, Joseph - 2022
and donors. The outcome, the World Bank admits, is that Mozambique showed remarkable growth, which largely benefitted the … and brutal way the IMF and World Bank imposed shock therapy on Mozambique. …
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How the IMF and World bank caused a resource curse and civil war in Mozambique
Hanlon, Joseph - 2022
Mozambique's 3 rd civil war is now in its 5th year in Cabo Delgado province, in the northeast of the country. More than 4300 people have died and nearly one million people have been displaced, more than one third the population of the province. One of the largest investment projects in Africa...
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Aid effectiveness: human rights as a conditionality measure
Douch, Mustapha; Edwards, Terence Huw; Landman, Todd; … - 2022
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Effect of corruption on educational quantity and quality : theory and evidence
Boly, Amadou; Keïta, Kole; Okara, Assi; Okou, Guei C. - 2020
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Does corruption affect local and foreign owned companies differently? : evidence from the BEEPS survey
Ashyrov, Gaygysyz; Masso, Jaan - 2019
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Corruption, institutions and regulation
Breen, Michael; Gillanders, Robert - 2011
We analyze the effects of corruption and institutional quality on the quality of business regulation. Our key findings … indicate that corruption negatively affects the quality of regulation and that general institutional quality is insignificant … once corruption is controlled for. These findings hold over a number of specifications which include additional exogenous …
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The influence of macroeconomic conditions and institutional quality on national levels of life satisfaction
Walsh, Brendan M. - 2012
Answers to the Eurobarometer question on Life Satisfaction are used to explore the effects of macroeconomic performance and institutional quality on average levels of self‐assessed well-being in the countries of the enlarged European Union between 2004 and 2011. It is found that variations in...
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