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Rentier Capitalism : Disorganised Development and Social Injustice in Pakistan
Ahmed, Shahid - 2016
Since the early 1950s East Asia (China, Taiwan and South Korea) and South-East Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam) have, despite war and other challenges, managed to transform the lives of their people, whereas South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) has lagged...
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Rentier capitalism : disorganised development and social injustice in Pakistan
Ahmed, Shahid - 2016
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Development, social justice and the limits of public policy -- Why has …, private enterprise and development -- Democracy and development : diagnosing poor governance -- An agenda for Pakistan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013547184
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The Road to Development is Paved With Good Institutions: The Political and Economic Implications of Financial Markets
Brown, Chelsea Denise - 2008
This research seeks to identify the factors that account for the variation in development levels across nations by …. Ultimately, I assert that while financial market factors have not been previously targeted as sources for development, they may … focusing on the institutional components of development, especially the effects of financial market development on economic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475007
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The long-run impact of the 1968 Washington, DC civil disturbance
Veuger, Stan; Brooks, Leah; Rose, Jonathan; Shoag, Daniel - 2020
This paper studies the urban development impacts of the civil disturbances that took place in Washington, DC following …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014439171
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The human capital peace : development and international conflict
Francis, Andrew M. - In: Defence and peace economics 20 (2009) 5, pp. 395-411
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Is the Doha Round dead? : What is the way forward?
Ismail, Faizel - 2012
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An emprical amalylsis of the Lewis-Ranis-Fei theory of dualistic economic development for China
Ercolani, Marco G.; Wei, Zheng - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009374230
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Educational content, educational institutions and economic development : lessons from history
Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - 2012
institutional development. In late 19th-century China, elites were afraid of the introduction of Western science and engineering and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009490201
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History without evidence : Latin American inequality since 1491
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2009
Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy to create a more egalitarian society. This paper argues...
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