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Sudanese North-South Border Tribes, Economic Interactions and Seeds of Conflict
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2011
The crisis of Greater Darfur Region of Sudan extends to other regions as the South Sudan prepares for secession next July 2011. In the past eight years Sudan's crisis in Darfur was amplified by global news media all over the world. Civil conflict erupted, developed into armed rebellions and open...
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A Productivity Growth Accounting Approach to the Ranking of Developing and Developed Nations
Raab, Raymond L.; Feroz, Ehsan H. - 2018
global economy.ERRATUM: Section 2 ‘DEA National Government (NG) Model’ draws heavily from Ehsan H. Feroz, Raymond Raab and …
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Democracy and aid donorship
Fuchs, Andreas; Müller, Angelika - 2018 - This version: September 2018
Almost half of the world's states provide bilateral development assistance. While previous research takes the set of donor countries as exogenous, this article is the first to explore the determinants of aid donorship. We hypothesize that democratic institutions reduce poor countries' likelihood...
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Economic development, democratic institutions, and repression in non-democratic regimes : theory and evidence
Kemnitz, Alexander; Roessler, Martin - 2017
This paper analyzes the utilization of repression and democratic institutions by a non-democratic government striving …, depending on whether it appears in the form of rises in income or in education: A higher income level reduces democracy, whereas … more education leads to both more democracy and more repression. These theoretical findings are corroborated by panel data …
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Globalisation, democracy and citizens' sovereignty : can competition among governments enhance democracy?
Vanberg, Viktor - In: Institutions, globalisation and empowerment, (pp. 75-106). 2006
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Varieties of capitalism, governance and government spending : a cross-section analysis
Ahrens, Joachim; Schweickert, Rainer; Zenker, Juliane - 2011
We argue that the literature on government size suffers from neglecting the role of governance both as a driving and a … limiting factor for government spending. Cross-country evidence for a sample of 126 developed and developing countries …, more open countries are likely to spend more in cases of minor quality of governance only. In this respect, government …
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Developing country second-mover advantage in competition over environmental standards and taxes
Groenert, Valeska; Zissimos, Benjamin - 2011
We show that, in competition between a developed country and a developing country over environmental standards and taxes, the developing country may have a "second-mover advantage." In our model, firms do not unanimously prefer lower environmental-standard levels. We introduce this feature to an...
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Delivering good aid in hard places : the Yemen Social Fund for Development approach
Al-Iryani, Lamis; De Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - 2013
The Yemen Social Fund for Development (SFD) was established in 1997 with the support of the international community, and in particular the World Bank, to combat national poverty and reinforce the limited existing social safety net. Since its inception, SFD has been widely viewed as successful in...
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Revisiting U. S. Public and Private Debt in April 2011
Blain, Bob - 2011
declaring them 'as good as cash' and the Federal government can pay new money into circulation debt and interest free. The …
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Developing Country Second-Mover Advantage in Competition Over Environmental Standards and Taxes
Groenert, Valeska - 2014
We show that, in competition between a developed country and a developing country over environmental standards and taxes, the developing country may have a ‘second-mover advantage.' In our model, firms do not unanimously prefer lower environmental-standard levels. We introduce this feature to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066914