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-industrial economic conditions. We hypothesize that if these countries are arrayed on a continuum of pre-industrial development such as …
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components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity …
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The Kangoye (2013, TDE) findings on the negative nexus between foreign aid unpredictability and governance could … (2012, JDS) literature, we first confirm Kangoye's findings. Then extend the concept of governance from corruption to … Kangoye. It follows that in the presence of foreign aid uncertainty, governments could be constrained to improve governance …
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This study contributes to the attendant literature by bundling governance dynamics and focusing on foreign aid … instability instead of foreign aid. We assess the role of foreign aid instabilit y on governance dynamics in fifty three African …: total aid, aid from multilateral donors and bilateral aid. Principal Component Analysis is used to bundle governance …
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This paper uses household data from India to examine the economic and social status of village politicians, and how individual and village characteristics affect politician behavior while in office. Education increases the chances of selection to public office and reduces the odds that a...
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Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …
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This paper examines interconnections between law, politics and the quality of government in Africa. We investigate whether African democracies enjoy relatively better government quality compared to their counterparts with more autocratic inclinations. The empirical evidence is based on...
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Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: 'how do governments become great?'....
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