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Global power shifts and the future of democracy: An evolutionary approach, with special attention to China
Owen, John M. - 2016
How may we best understand the effects of the ongoing rise of China on the future of liberal democracy in East Asia? Scholars who stress hegemony tend to predict a less democratic region, while those who stress diffusion tend to predict more democracy. This paper does not attempt to resolve the...
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Explaining variation in public debt: A quantitative analysis of the effects of governance
Eisl, Andreas - 2017
security and equity to private investment, inducing higher economic growth and tax revenues. Both theories are tested against a …
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Regime type, inequality, and redistributive transfers in developing countries
Dodlova, Marina; Giolbas, Anna - 2017
The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution is ongoing. We construct a model that predicts higher probability of redistribution in democracies than autocracies through social transfers. Higher inequality leads to more redistribution in democracies but not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654023
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Regime type, issue type and economic sanctions: The role of domestic players
Onder, Mehmet - In: Economies 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-18
This analysis highlights the significant role that domestic actors play in determining the outcomes of economic sanctions. It models the behavior of the main opposition party during an economic sanction episode, and introduces two commonly used variables when considering the effectiveness of...
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The institutions and policies of aid-recipient countries and aid effectiveness: The case of Afghanistan
Bizhan, Nematullah - 2023
The aid effectiveness principles have limits if the recipient is fragile. The problem of relevance exists if the recipient has an authoritarian or totalitarian regime. In situations of weak statehood and fragility, a large portion of aid would likely bypass the state because of high demand for...
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Regime Type, Inequality, and Redistributive Transfers in Developing Countries
Dodlova, Marina; Giolbas, Anna - 2015
The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution in a country is still ongoing. We construct a model that predicts a higher probability of redistribution in democracies than in autocracies. Further, with higher initial inequality, there should be more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282670
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Business services outsourcing and economic growth: Evidence from a dynamic panel data approach
Dettmer, Bianka - 2012
obsolete and make business service outsourcing via cross-border trade more feasible. Although the (service-led) growth … to trade commercial- and specialized business services on long-run growth by applying a dynamic panel data approach to … account for unobserved country specific effects and endogenous growth determinants. The system GMM estimates validate that a …
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Export Diversification, Externalities and Growth
Herzer, Dierk; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2004
It is frequently suggested that export diversification contributes to an acceleration of growth in developing countries … international competition. Vertical diversification out of primary into manufactured exports is also associated with growth since … vertical export diversification are positively correlated with economic growth. Yet there have been remarkably few empirical …
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Optimal tax mix in a two-sector growth model with transitional dynamics
Davies, James B.; Zhang, Jie; Zeng, Jinli - 2000
This paper examines the problem of optimal tax mix analytically in a two-sector growth model with transitional dynamics …
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Social security, differential fertility, and the dynamics of the earnings distribution
Zhao, Kai - 2009
Economists and demographers have long argued that fertility differs by income (differential fertility), and that social security creates incentives for people to rear fewer children. Does the effect of social security on fertility differ by income? How does social security change the...
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