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African Political Institutions and the Impact of Colonialism
Bolt, Jutta; Gardner, Leigh; Kohler, Jennifer; Paine, Jack - 2022
Conventional wisdom proposes deep historical roots for authoritarianism in Africa: either colonial “decentralized despotism” or enduring structural features. We present a new theoretical perspective. Africans sought autonomous local communities, which constrained precolonial rulers....
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Constitutional Reform, Rent Extraction, and Economic Development in China
Congleton, Roger D. - 2011
This paper explores the constitutional political economy and history of economic liberalization in China, with the aim of understanding how and why the policies that produced that growth came to be adopted. The paper argues that constitutional reforms played important roles in China's economic...
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How and Why Economies Develop and Grow : Lessons from Preindustrial Europe and China
Kohn, Meir - 2010
Why are we rich and others poor? What is preventing the less-developed countries from catching up with the more developed? How did we become rich? Underlying these questions are more fundamental ones: What is the nature of economic progress? What are its causes? I seek the answers to these...
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Theories of Governance and Development : How Does India’s Experience Fit?
Singh, Nirvikar - 2023
This paper takes on the apparent paradox of India’s combination of durable democracy, capable bureaucracy, but a … contributions to understanding India’s political economy in the last few decades. Finally, it attempts to draw some lessons from … India’s experience for the application of different theories of governance and development. The central lesson is that the …
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Introducing Socio-Political Regimes in Economic Development Models : Historical Simulations on Agrarian Reform for India and Chile
Cohen, S. I. - 2015
to a socio-political system characterized by a landlord-leader configuration, i.e. rural India of the 1960's, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015166
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The nature of corruption : an interdisciplinary perspective
Dimant, Eugen - 2013
Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to a massive trans-border threat while creating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199020
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Lessons from Colombian Economic Development
Echeverry, Juan Carlos - 2009
Colombia is an interesting case study within emerging countries. Through 150 years of democratic tradition and seven decades of sound fiscal and monetary policies, the country has displayed institutional strength and economic growth, in spite of strong external shocks, rent-seeking by sectoral...
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The crisis after the crisis : resilience or reset?
Ioan-Franc, Valeriu; Diamescu, Andrei-Marius - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 23 (2021) 58, pp. 864-874
The concept of "the crisis after the crisis" recently introduced in the academic debate refers to the fact that, since the outbreak of the health crisis generated by SARS-CoV-2, the pandemic has had a major impact on all economic, social, political and cultural activities of the daily life,...
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Corruption and access to socio-economic services in Africa
Freytag, Andreas; Riaz, Muhammad Faraz - 2021
Corruption is one of the world's most widespread political problems. It can be found on international, national and sub-national level. Access to education and other socio-economic services is of utmost importance for all humans. It is still not exclusively based on merit, but often rather...
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The Good Governance Imperative : A Nigeria Economic Development Case Study
Bowen, Barton R. - 2003
In relation to the concept of governance as defined by the World Bank, this article reviews the mistakes and lessons learned from Nigeria's attempt at economic development over the final three or four decades of the 20th century. Special attention is given to the adverse impact of the several...
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