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Measuring Party System Change: A Systems Perspective
Nwokora, Zim; Pelizzo, Riccardo - 2017
fluidity, which measures the extent of such stability. Applying the index to Africa, we show there is significant cross …
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Unofficial sovereign wealth funds and duration in power in Africa
Nawo, Larissa; Avom, Désiré; McNabb, Kyle; Nembot, Luc - 2019
This paper argues that in weak states, leaders whose hold on power is secured by the public fortune have turned to the use of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), especially unofficial SWFs, to cement their hold on power. Unofficial SWFs are private funds created from resource rents with the...
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Eat Widely, Vote Wisely: Lessons from a Campaign against Vote Buying in Uganda
Blattman, Christopher; Larreguy, Horacio; Marx, Benjamin; … - 2024
We study a large-scale intervention designed by civil society organizations to reduce vote buying in Uganda's 2016 elections. We study this intervention in light of a model where incumbents benefit from a first-mover and valence advantage, vote buying and campaigning are complementary, and voter...
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Harte Zeiten für Afrikas Flüchtlinge
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Nord-Süd aktuell - Vierteljahreszeitschrift für … 9 (1995) 2, pp. 230-239
unprecedented scale in the last decades. They are expected to exceed all that has been happening before. Africa is particularly …
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Können die Experten das, was sie sollen? Schwachstellen des sozio-kulturellen Rahmenkonzeptes des BMZ
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit (E + Z) 33 (1992) 7, pp. 4-5
Soziokulturelle Länderkurzanalysen wurden Anfang der 1990er Jahre zum festen Bestandteil der “Länderkonzepte", dem neuen zentralen Managementinstrument der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Die Quintessenz dieses Ansatzes wurde in der Frage zusammengefaßt: Wollen und können die...
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The Cycle of Development in Africa: A Story about the Power of Economic Ideas
Paldam, Martin - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 147 (2011) 4, pp. 427-459
During the last 60 years development in Sub-Sahara Africa has had three main phases - P1, P2 and P3 - divided by kinks … considered. Some of these hypotheses have been proposed to explain the low growth of Africa, while most are meant to explain the … in the dominating development strategy. At the end of P1 the main policy-package in Africa became the one of African …
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Aid, employment and inclusive growth in conflict-affected countries: Policy recommendations for Liberia
del Castillo, Graciana - 2012
The experience and lessons of the last two decades have shown that ignoring the key differences between the economics of peace and the economics of development has been a major reason why countries relapse into conflict. This paper briefly analyses such differences and their important...
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Mecanismos para problemas de ação coletiva
Melo, Valdir - 2014
Problems of collective action are at the roots of several public policies and, as shown in this text, there are many mechanisms and tools to be used in order to solve those problems. Although three groups of mechanisms and tools have not been stressed in the usual debates of public policy, they...
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Ação coletiva e o problema de coordenação
Melo, Valdir - 2013
The problem of coordination concerns how to make actions or choices of social agents (individuals or organizations) match in the right way. Some problems of coordination are also problems of separation. In many cases of lack of coordination, communication is faulty or not very reliable....
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Problemas de ação coletiva: Cooperação e deserção
Melo, Valdir - 2013
Many public policies seek to promote, maintain, modify or improve collective actions. The development of a country requires actions that are complex and wide in scope. This and following texts sort out: i) two general classes of problem-situations that lack collective action; and ii) kinds of...
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