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This paper compares reform ownership in Ghana and Tanzania over the past two decades. It finds that on several …. In the case of Tanzania, while initial reform efforts were made without aid, the acrimonious debate with donors that … ownership. Tanzania’s relatively weak state capacity and weakened policy decision making process have contributed to lower …
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Partnership with Africa (SPA) that considers early experiences with PRSPs in eight African countries: Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi …, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda and Tanzania. The paper argues that politics matters; that PRSPs have helped bring poverty into …
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The paper considers whether Sweden should join the EMU as based on general equilibrium (GE) effects through reduced trade barriers linked to the single cur-rency. We use in this evaluation a gravity model for trade in Europe derived and estimated in the paper, and the estimates of trade barriers...
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What is wrong with Europe's Single Market? The brief answer to that question is that it does not really exist - it is unsingle. The Single Market is in many ways a political illusion. It exists only nominally. Any company doing business in Europe faces significant barriers to cross-border...
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The Brussels Effect, once emblematic of the EU's alleged influence in shaping global regulations, has now become a factor contributing to global regulatory fragmentation. The EU must recalibrate its trajectory towards a liberal and rules-based trading order, prioritizing widespread regulatory...
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This paper argues that developing Asia is overlooking an opportunity for increased growth and development through trade in business services. Developing Asia would benefit from liberalizing services trade as it has benefited from liberalizing goods trade. This argument rests on these key...
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corruption. By means of a comparative case study of Tanzania and Uganda, it shall be explored whether a more streamlined or …
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Tanzania, in which we vary the relative bargaining power between spouses. The paper provides two main insights. First …
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survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent …
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randomized survey experiment in Tanzania focusing on two survey aspects: different questionnaire design to classify children work …
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