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Pre-Industrial and Post-War Economic Development: Is There a Link?
Burkett, John; Humblet, Catherine; Putterman, Louis - 1997
-industrial economic conditions. We hypothesize that if these countries are arrayed on a continuum of pre-industrial development such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420247
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Pre-industrial and post-war economic development : is there a link?
Burkett, John P.; Humblet, Catherine; Putterman, Louis G. - 1997
-industrial economic conditions. We hypothesize that if these countries are arrayed on a continuum of pre-industrial development such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504438
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Aid and governance : negative returns?
Brazys, Samuel - In: The European journal of development research : journal … 28 (2016) 2, pp. 294-313
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011686708
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Does democracy cure a resource curse?
Korhonen, Iikka - 2004
In this paper we utilise a large and reasonably detailed dataset to show that a greater level of democracy in a country's political institutions can alleviate the widely known resource curse.Raw material abundance affects per capita growth negatively, an effect that seems to work through several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148479
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Corruption and economic growth : evidence from Egypt
Ghalwash, Tarek - In: Modern economy 5 (2014) 10, pp. 1001-1009
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Corruption and growth : the role of governance, public spending, and economic development
Dzhumashev, Ratbek - In: Economic modelling 37 (2014), pp. 202-215
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Measurement of regulations : an application to the agricultural produce markets of Indian States
Purohit, Purnima - 2014
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How do governments become great? : ten cases, two competing explanations, one large research agenda
Andrews, Matt - 2013
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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Who really leads development?
Andrews, Matt - 2013
'Leadership' is not a common topic for research in international development. In recent years, however, prominent … studies like the 2008 Growth Commission Report noted the importance of leadership in development. This and other studies … focused on individual leaders - or heroes - when examining 'who leads development'. The current article asks if heroes really …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010187197
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Overcoming the limits of institutional reform in Uganda
Andrews, Matt; Bategeka, Lawrence - 2013
This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms actively and consistently for three decades now, and has produced many laws, processes and structures that are 'best in class' in Africa (and beyond). The problem is that many of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192401