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Douch, Mustapha; Edwards, Terence Huw; Landman, Todd; … - 2022

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World Bank questions its Mozambique "success" : "remarkable growth" and oligarchs have brought high inequality, poverty and corruption

Hanlon, Joseph - 2022

At the end of the Cold War the west imposed economic "shock therapy" on the countries of the former Soviet Union to rapidly turn the communists into capitalists, creating oligarchs. One of the few Africa countries where shock therapy was imposed was Mozambique. Shock therapy was intended to push...

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Resource windfalls, optimal public investment, and redistribution

Arezki, Rabah; Dupuy, Arnaud; Gelb, Alan - 2021

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The participation dividend of taxation: how citizens in Congo engage more with the state when it tries to tax them

Weigel, Jonathan - 2020

This paper provides evidence from a fragile state that citizens demand more of a voice in the government when it tries to tax them. I examine a ﬁeld experiment randomizing property tax collection across 356 neighborhoods of a large Congolese city. The tax campaign was the ﬁrst time most...

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The democratic contribution of participatory budgeting

Cabannes, Yves; Lipietz, Barbara - 2015

Participatory Budgeting (PB) has emerged as one of the major innovations in participatory governance for local management and local democracy worldwide. With more than 3,000 experiences recorded in over forty countries, PB is gradually changing the living conditions of increasing numbers of...

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Marketization and democracy in China

Liew, Leong H. - 2000

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The politics of ethnic identity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Green, Elliott - 2017

Recent literature on ethnic favouritism suggests that Presidents tend to target co-ethnics with patronage, especially in non-democracies. Coupled with evidence on the role of incentives in driving ethnic identity change, I propose that a change in the ethnic identity of presidents in...

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Buying off the revolution : democratization, social movements and redistribution

López Uribe, Maria del Pilar - 2023

This paper shows that franchise extension is not enough for commitment to redistribution and that in the absence of de facto empowerment, the threat of revolution is intact. In particular, the paper studies the relationship between a democratic reform that extends the political rights of a...

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A Chinese way of democratization?

Yao, Yang - 2009

countries. It has stayed authoritarian because the CCP has successfully diverted the demand for democratization through tactics … inevitably bring about forces and elements arguing and even fighting for democratization. As a result, there are more democratic … elements in China than people usually believe and these elements are growing. Chinas path to democratization may prove to be …

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Grassroots democracy and local governance : evidence from rural China

Wang, Shuna; Yao, Yang - 2009

This paper studies the impacts of village elections on the accountability of the village committee, local fiscal sharing, and state taxation in rural China using data of 48 villages for the period of 19862002. Elections are found to substantially increase the share of public expenditures in the...

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