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Magic and witchcraft: Implications for Democratization and poverty-alleviating aid in Africa
Kohnert, Dirk - In: World Development 24 (1996) 8, pp. 1347-1355
The belief in occult forces is still deeply rooted in many African societies, regardless of education, religion, and social class of the people concerned. According to many Africans its incidence is even increasing due to social stress and strain caused (among others) by the process of...
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Democracy, State Capacity, and Economic Growth
Knutsen, Carl Henrik - In: World Development 43 (2013) C, pp. 1-18
analysis finds a positive and robust effect of democracy on growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, a continent historically … capacity on growth, both in Africa and globally; the effect of democracy on growth increases when state capacity is reduced … characterized by weak-capacity states. Furthermore, the paper identifies a robust interaction effect between democracy and state …
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IMF Lending in Times of Crisis: Political Influences and Crisis Prevention
Presbitero, Andrea F.; Zazzaro, Alberto - In: World Development 40 (2012) 10, pp. 1944-1969
In the wake of the global crisis the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has increased its exposure to developing countries and modified its lending approach to enhance its crisis prevention role. In this paper we examine whether, during the current crisis, IMF lending was actually directed at...
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Political Polarization as a Constraint on Corruption: A Cross-national Comparison
Brown, David S.; Touchton, Michael; Whitford, Andrew - In: World Development 39 (2011) 9, pp. 1516-1529
Summary Efforts to explain corruption have increased dramatically in recent years. The interest stems from the increasing weight economists assign to corruption when explaining economic growth. A great deal of the research focuses on how political institutions influence perceptions of...
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Female Empowerment as a Core Driver of Democratic Development: A Dynamic Panel Model from 1980 to 2005
Wyndow, Paula; Li, Jianghong; Mattes, Eugen - In: World Development 52 (2013) C, pp. 34-54
indicator of levels of democracy, our results show that female empowerment was strongly associated with democratic development … over this period. The effect of female education increased with lags of 5 and 10years, suggesting that democracy is more …
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Bad Governance and Poor Children: A Comparative Analysis of Government Efficiency and Severe Child Deprivation in 68 Low- and Middle-income Countries
Halleröd, Björn; Rothstein, Bo; Daoud, Adel; Nandy, … - In: World Development 48 (2013) C, pp. 19-31
Research on democratization and quality of government (QoG) has highlighted the impact of poor governance on people’s living conditions. Simultaneously we have gained knowledge about global child poverty. Here these two strands of research are brought together. We use survey micro-data from 68...
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Taxation and Democratization
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - In: World Development 56 (2014) C, pp. 287-301
citizens on democracy. The instrumental variables regressions with a panel of 122 countries over the period 1981–2008 suggest … that revenues have on average a mild positive effect on democracy. …
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Can Top-Down and Bottom-Up be Reconciled? Electoral Competition and Service Delivery in Malaysia
Mccourt, Willy - In: World Development 40 (2012) 11, pp. 2329-2341
Top-down versus bottom-up is one of development’s enduring tensions, not least in public service delivery. In Malaysia, public services have traditionally been animated from the top down. Bottom-up forces in civil society have strengthened recently, but so too have top-down forces, and their...
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Foreign Aid and Regime Change: A Role for Donor Intent
Bermeo, Sarah Blodgett - In: World Development 39 (2011) 11, pp. 2021-2031
that democratic donors use scarce aid resources to encourage democracy. During the same period, aid from authoritarian … preferences regarding democracy helping to determine the link between aid and democratization. …
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Democracy, History, and Economic Performance: A Case-Study Approach
Gerring, John; Kingstone, Peter; Lange, Matthew; Sinha, … - In: World Development 39 (2011) 10, pp. 1735-1748
Crossnational statistical studies show a positive relationship between the length of time a country has been democratic and its economic performance. Old democracies grow faster, ceteris paribus, and also demonstrate advantages in some economic policies thought to be conducive to growth....
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