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Political Regimes and Economic Growth in Latin America

Albornoz, Facundo; Dutta, Jayasri - 2007

tries to identify the effect of democracy on economic prosperity, little work has been done to understand the determinants … of economic growth under democracy. This paper examines whether the determinants of economic growth in Latin America are …

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Revolution and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Sandinista Revolution

Silano, Filippo - 2023

This study examines the repercussions of the 1979 Sandinista revolution on Nicaragua's economic growth trajectory. Drawing on the synthetic control method, it constructs an artificial counterpart to Nicaragua with the primary objective of estimating the counterfactual gross domestic product...

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Opportunity Lost? Economic Development in Argentina, 1929-1955

Kevlihan, Rob - 2010

This paper provides an overview of the failure of Argentina to benefit long term from export led development in the early and middle decades of the last century. Despite being well positioned to take advantage of significant breakdowns in the international economic system Argentina largely...

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Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina

Gallo, Andres A.; Alston, Lee J. - 2009

per capita and was moving away from authoritarian government towards a more open democracy. Unfortunately, Argentina never …

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Revolution and economic growth : evidence from the Sandinista Revolution

Silano, Filippo - 2023

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The transformation of rural labour systems in colonial and post-colonial Northern Nigeria

Kohnert, Dirk - 1986

The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the development of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...

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Political inclusion and democracy in Africa : some empirical evidence

Nchofoung, Tii Njivukuh; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2021

This study investigates: (i) the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) and economic growth dynamics, and (ii) the relevance of value added from three economic sectors in modulating the established effect of FDI on TFP and economic growth dynamics. The...

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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads

Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019

networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966676

Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads

Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019

networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior-to-coast roads are at least in part the result of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960429

Gender political inclusion and democracy in Africa: some empirical evidence

Nchofoung, Tii Njivukuh; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2022

The objective of this study is to examine the effect of political inclusion on democracy in Africa. The results of the … analyses through the OLS, system GMM, IV-Tobit and IV-2SLS show that gender political inclusion enhances democracy in Africa …. This result is robust across alternative specifications of political inclusion and democracy. Besides, the results equally …

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