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Mali long seemed a model, low-income democracy. Yet, in a few short weeks in early 2012, more than half of the … elements of vertical accountability that are necessary for democracy. On the other hand, aid was not very successful at …
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This study explores the effects of foreign aid on democracy in Mozambique during the last decade. Aid for democracy …. Emphasis has moved from building central government institutions to bolstering local governance, and from a focus on democracy …
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Die internationale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit verfolgt zwei Ziele: Armutsreduzierung und Demokratisierung. Auf der Grundlage eines Rational-Choice-Modells wird gezeigt, dass diese Ziele in einem Konflikt zueinander stehen, wenn Maßnahmen westlicher Entwicklungspolitik in und auf Diktaturen...
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instability, namely terms-of-trade instability, on the quality of democracy. We take advantage of previous empirical findings …, aggregate aid flows can potentially dampen the effects of terms-of-trade instability on the quality of democracy. An empirical …
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In the study 'Do elites benefit from democracy and foreign aid in developing countries' (Journal of Development …
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neighbor states with the EU. To achieve this, the authors aim to assess the existing trends in the size of the gaps across … countries and problem areas, taking into consideration the specific origin of the gap between EU15/EU12, on the one hand, and … FSU republics, EU candidates and West Balkan countries, on the other hand. The paper is structured as follows: 1. A review …
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European integration has come to constrain the capacity for democratic political action in EU member states through the …
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The paper aims to analyze the economic interests of some of the Balkan countries and Great Powers in Albania … World War I when some of the Balkan states and Great Powers sought to influence Albania's political system through their … economic presence in the country. Because of Albania's undefined political status, there was even more impetus to establish …
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The most dramatic recent immigration in Europe is the influx of more than 700,000 Albanians, about a quarter of the total Albanian workforce, in the 1990s. The vast majority migrated illegally. This paper analyses the detfirminants of Albanian migration based on a unique representative survey of...
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in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause … -mainly by fathers - is very relevant in Albania where migration has represented the only viable way to cope with increasing … poverty and the absence of public resources for sustaining households' incomes. Between 1990 and 2005 in Albania 21.7% of …
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