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Cluster policy as a development strategy: Case studies from the Middle East and North Africa
Benner, Maximilian - 2012
presents case studies from Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294480
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Post-apartheid South Africa: An economic success story?
Lundahl, Mats; Petersson, Lennart - 2009
The paper provides an evaluation of the development of the South African economy since the end of apartheid in 1994. Taking the 1993 situation as the point of departure, it gives an account of the path leading to the formulation of the major policy documents, and examines to what extent their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273497
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Covid-19 in Africa and its impact on the economy
Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; Lück, Ole; Meuchelböck, Saskia - 2021
die Entwicklung Afrikas nach Einschätzung der Autoren auch längerfristig bremsen, da die Akkumulation sowohl von Human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012626521
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Institutional Determinants of Economic Performance in OECD Countries – An Institutions Climate Index
Eicher, Theo; Röhn, Oliver - In: CESifo DICE Report 05 (2007) 1, pp. 38-49
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696606
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What Does the Institutions Climate Index for OECD Countries Tell us about Institutional Change and Economic Policy Reforms?
Ochel, Wolfgang; Osterkamp, Rigmar - In: CESifo DICE Report 05 (2007) 1, pp. 50-62
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696607
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Oil and the Eruption of the Algerian Civil War: A Context-sensitive Analysis of the Ambivalent Impact of Resource Abundance
Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2010
Algeria's intrastate war in the 1990s, during which militant Islamists and the state fought fiercely against each other … conditions directly linked to the resource sector with the general conflict-fueling conditions diagnosed in Algeria. It takes … but also enhances our understanding of the eruption of violence in Algeria. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275960
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Fuel for Conflict or Balm for Peace? Assessing the Effects of Hydrocarbons on Peace Efforts in Algeria
Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2010
This paper explores the use of hydrocarbon revenues in post-conflict Algeria. While the bloody years of the 1990s now …-building efforts in Algeria and identify ways of improving these measures. The resources, which are mainly controlled by the central …-building will only lead to sustainable results when embedded in full-fledged reforms of Algeria's entire economic and political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275990
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Country role models for development success: The case of Costa Rica
Trejos, Alberto - 2009
In this paper, I discuss the reasons for Costa Rica's economic performance over the last quarter of a century. Three complementary sets of policies (investments in human capital, careful stabilization, and an intelligent and aggressive integration into the world economy) explain the successful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273461
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Reform of the economic provisions of the constitution: Why national progress is at stake
Sicat, Gerardo P. - 2005
The Philippine Constitution contains many strong restrictions targeted against the flow of foreign capital in specific areas of economic activities. These restrictions were the same ones that were incorporated into the nationalistic provisions of the 1935 Constitution when its framers were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275099
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Reflections
Ranis, Gustav - 1997
This paper examines the causes of Taiwan's exceptional economic performance, focusing on the influence of organizational and policy choices and how Taiwan's example differs from those of more typical less-developed countries. After briefly citing cultural factors as proposed by his late...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369148