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Can Latin America Tap the Globalization Upside?
de la Torre, Augusto - 2017
This paper discusses the theoretical arguments in favor of and against economic globalization and, with a view to … ascertaining whether Latin America may be able to capture the globalization upside, examines the trends and salient features of … Latin America's globalization as compared with that of Southeast Asia. The paper focuses on trade and financial integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973335
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Ecowas's Infrastructure : A Regional Perspective
Ranganathan, Rupa - 2017
Infrastructure improvements boosted growth in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) by one percentage point per capita per year during 1995-2005, primarily thanks to growth in information and communication technology. Deficient power infrastructure held growth back by 0.1...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975572
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Economic Community of West African States : Fiscal Revenue Implications of the Prospective Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union
Zouhonbi, Simplice G - 2020
This paper applies a partial equilibrium model to analyze the fiscal revenue implications of the prospective economic partnership agreement between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the European Union. The authors find that, under standard import price and substitution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830035
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Economic Community of West African States : Fiscal Revenue Implications of the Prospective Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union
Zouhon Bi, Simplice G. - 2016
This paper applies a partial equilibrium model to analyze the fiscal revenue implications of the prospective economic partnership agreement between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the European Union. The authors find that, under standard import price and substitution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747707
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Local Foundations for Better Governance : A Review of Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao's Localizing Development
Myerson, Roger - 2017
In Localizing Development, Mansuri and Rao survey theory and evidence for development strategies based on local community empowerment. This note extends their theoretical argument by focusing on local government as a vital source of new leadership. Local leaders who provide better public service...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972413
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The Strength of American Federal Democracy : Lessons for Global Development
Myerson, Roger - 2017
always been guided by two basic principles: representative democracy, and a proper division of power between national and … drawn to centralized democracy, as national elites may prefer to centralize power around themselves. America's successful …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970481
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Long-Run Effects of Democracy on Income Inequality : Evidence from Repeated Cross-Sections
Balcázar Salazar, Carlos - 2017
This paper assesses the link between democracy and inequality. Inequality is measured at the cohort level with pseudo …-panel data built from nine Latin American countries' household surveys (1995-2009, biannual). Democracy is measured as a stock …-run historical patterns in the degree of democracy relate to income inequality. However, this relationship is non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972307
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Party Age and Party Color : New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality
Keefer, Philip - 2017
This paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central -- but still contested -- assumption of the political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972412
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The Anatomy of Failure : An Ethnography of a Randomized Trial to Deepen Democracy in Rural India
Ananthpur, Kripa - 2017
Programs that induce citizen participation to improve the quality of government at the local level are the subjects of large amounts of funding and intense debate. This paper combines a randomized control trial of a citizenship training and facilitation program in rural India, with an in-depth,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973031
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Small is Beautiful, at Least in High-Income Democracies : The Distribution of Policy-Making Responsibility, Electoral Accountability, and Incentives for Rent Extraction
Hamilton, Alexander James - 2017
rents extracted in any given high-income democracy context. Specifically, the paper formally models how: (1) variation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974716