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The “deliberative development” approach to policy reform has gained popularity in both academic and policy circles without a clear understanding of the requirements for its success. Based on a reading of the deliberative democracy literature, we detail those requirements, finding them to be...
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Poverty in Bolivia continues to be among the highest in Latin America despite decades of concerted national and international efforts to reduce it. Bolivia has meticulously followed the recommendations of the Washington consensus at the same time as external aid has been generous and foreign...
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Cluster policy has become a method of choice for policymakers in many countries. Promoting strong localized industries is an appealing perspective for practitioners, as it can be seen as a way to anchor economic activity in regions in an era of globalization. If cluster policy is successful, it...
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This is an attempt to derive broad, strategic lessons from the diverse experience with economic growth in last fifty years. The paper revolves around two key arguments. One is that neoclassical economic analysis is a lot more flexible than its practitioners in the policy domain have generally...
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After the extensive destruction caused by the violence that followed the vote for independence on August 30th, 1999, the reconstruction of East Timor's infrastructure inevitably was the top priority. Supported by massive aid inflows, achievements in this area have been quite remarkable. As a...
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This report approaches current domains of development and tension within China. It was elaborated by students in the frame of a 'Task Force Seminar' in cooperation with the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). It addresses the issues of...
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Das vorliegende Heft untersucht verschiedene aktuelle Entwicklungs- und Spannungsfelder im gegenwärtigen China, die von Studierenden im Rahmen eines Task-Force-Seminars erarbeitet wurden: Umwelt-NGOs, Konflikte und Konfliktmanagement am Fallbeispiel Wasser, Neuerungen und...
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Bis zum Ende der achtziger Jahre dominierte in der Wachstumstheorie das neoklassische Paradigma, das auf Tinbergen (1942) zurückgeht und vor allem von Solow (1956) weiterentwickelt wurde. Nachdem dieser Ansatz in seiner Entwicklung zu einem gewissen Abschluß gekommen war, wurde die...
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Most low income countries are characterised by a high dependence on exports of a small number of agricultural or mineral commodities. In the 1980s, the economic and social performance of these countries has been extremely dismal. Declining per capita incomes, stagnating food production, and an...
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