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Public administration role in infrastructure development
Grigorescu, Adriana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The infrastructure (transport) is essential for the economic development of a region. If we are taking into … consideration the tourism industry and other tourist activities, the importance of the infrastructure is higher, due to the fact … administration plays a huge role in developing projects for improving the infrastructure or for rehabilitating it. We are presenting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008645107
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“Economic freedom” and economic growth: questioning the claim that freer markets make societies more prosperous
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
A conventional reading of economic history implies that free market reforms rescued the world’s economies from stagnancy during the 1970s and 1980s. I reexamine a well-established econometric literature linking economic freedom to growth, and argue that their positive findings hinge on two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325575
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Neoliberalism’s relationship with economic growth in the developing world: Was it the power of the market or the resolution of financial crisis?
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This article examines the relationship between "economic freedom" and economic growth. Previous studies have found a positive relationship between economic growth rates and "economic freedom", and used this relationship as a basis for arguing that more liberal economic policies promote...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532159
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Neoliberalism’s relationship with economic growth in the developing world: Was it the power of the market or the resolution of financial crisis?
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This article examines the relationship between "economic freedom" and economic growth. Previous studies have found a positive relationship between economic growth rates and "economic freedom", and used this relationship as a basis for arguing that more liberal economic policies promote...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839480
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“Economic freedom” and economic growth: questioning the claim that freer markets make societies more prosperous
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
A conventional reading of economic history implies that free market reforms rescued the world’s economies from stagnancy during the 1970s and 1980s. I reexamine a well-established econometric literature linking economic freedom to growth, and argue that their positive findings hinge on two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257910
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Infrastructure for Sustainable Growth: A Demand Projection Exercise for India
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Critical precondition for attaining growth and sustainable development is availability of a host of infrastructural facilities in adequate quantity and of reliable quality. The association between the latter and growth is well documented and a large number of theoretical propositions conclude...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787048
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Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India
Iyer, Lakshmi; Mani, Anandi - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 94 (2012) 3, pp. 723-739
We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns and the consequent implications for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique microlevel data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions. Politicians use frequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011009973
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Political drivers of and barriers to Public-Private Partnerships: The role of political involvement
Gawel, Erik - Wirtschaftswissenschafltiche Fakultät, Universität Leipzig - 2011
The application and design of public-private partnerships between the extremes of purely public or purely private task fulfilment in public services is, in practice, subject to political processes. Decisions about PPPs (realisation, arrangement) are taken in the political arena and are therefore...
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Thinking about Bureaucracy: Mises versus Niskanen
Simandan, Radu - In: Romanian Economic Journal 12 (2009) 34, pp. 85-96
In this paper, I oppose the Misesian insight on the problem of bureaucracy to the theory of Niskanen. Assuming that … bureaucracy is merely a symptom of a more serious disease – namely socialism – the Misesian perspective is an analysis of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467392
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An Ethnographer among Street-Level Bureaucrats and New Public Management
Weller, Jean-Marc - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2012
Among the many ways of studying public administration, one orientation among social research has been gradually established: observing bureaucrats at work. Such a perspective can be seen to have two aims: a better understanding of the crucial role front-line employees can play in the daily...
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