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Regional Public Goods: From Theory to Practice
Adhikari, Ramesh; Negroni, Mirka J.; Leino, Jessica; … - Inter-American Development Bank
This book is based on a conference entitled "Regional Public Goods and Regional Development Assistance", held in Washington, D.C. on November 6-7, 2002. It examines how the IDB and the ADB support the provision of regional public goods (RPGs) in Latin America and Asia, respectively. RPGs are...
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Regional Public Goods: From Theory to Practice
Adhikari, Ramesh; Negroni, Mirka J.; Leino, Jessica; … - Inter-American Development Bank
This book is based on a conference entitled "Regional Public Goods and Regional Development Assistance", held in Washington, D.C. on November 6-7, 2002. It examines how the IDB and the ADB support the provision of regional public goods (RPGs) in Latin America and Asia, respectively. RPGs are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943426
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Autocracy, Democracy, and FDI Inflows to the Developing Countries
Yang, Benhua - In: International Economic Journal 21 (2007) 3, pp. 419-439
developing countries for a sample of 134 countries over the 1983-2002 period. Using two categorical measures of regime type and … three different measures of FDI, this study finds that, regardless of the measures of regime type, democracies are not … capita FDI, but this result is not robust to alternative measures of political regime. Taken as a whole, there is no evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005157446
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Liberalization, globalization and the dynamics of democracy in India
Nachane, Dilip M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
principles of marketization (understood here as referring to the liberalization of domestic markets and freer international … between marketization and democracy. The first is more direct, stemming from the fact of both systems sharing certain values … and attitudes in common. But there is also a second more indirect chain from marketization to democracy, which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126279
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The Portuguese Republic at One Hundred
Herr, Richard; Costa Pinto, António - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2012
coup overthrew the parliamentary system and led to the authoritarian regime of Salazar, but in April 1974 a revolution led …
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Honoring the Past, Building the Future: Fifty Years of Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Title: Celebrar el pasado, construir el futuro: Cincuenta años de desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe
Ávila, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank
Although science has unlocked the secrets of the human genome, the causes of social and economic development remain stubbornly enigmatic. Why do some countries adopt new technologies more readily than others? Why does income inequality persist in some regions--even in the face of rapid economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772319
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Honoring the Past, Building the Future: Fifty Years of Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Title: Celebrar el pasado, construir el futuro: Cincuenta años de desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe
Ávila, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank
Although science has unlocked the secrets of the human genome, the causes of social and economic development remain stubbornly enigmatic. Why do some countries adopt new technologies more readily than others? Why does income inequality persist in some regions--even in the face of rapid economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943360
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Globalization, Political Regimes and International Environmental Commitment
Bernauer, Thomas; Kalbhenn, Anna; Koubi, Vally; Ruoff, … - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2008
In this paper we are interested in the relationship between globalization, political institutions (notably, democracy) and international environmental commitments. This relationship has been the subject of a particularly intensive debate and the existing literature offers a wide range of partly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565042
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Integral local development: "accommodating multiple interests" through entrustment and accountable representation
Ribot, Jesse C. - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 1 (2001) 3/4, pp. 327-350
Accommodating multiple interests involves integrating across highly stratified societies. Integral local development is a means of integrating across these interests through locally accountable representative authorities entrusted with public powers. It is integral to the local community because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691658
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Politicians: Be Killed or Survive
Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - CESifo - 2008
: extended institutional and governance quality, democracy, voice and accountability, a well functioning system of law and order …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406072