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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … 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
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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior … to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960429
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EU's Eastern Neighbours : Institutional Harmonisation and Potential Growth Bonus
Radziwill, Artur; Smietanka, Pawel - 2009
This paper provides the quantitative estimate of the potential growth bonus for CIS countries, and in particular EU’s Easter Neighbours, that can be a result of deeper institutional harmonisation with the EU. Econometric investigation involving instrumental variable, simultaneous equation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206162
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Good Governance and Economic Growth : A Contribution to the Institutional Debate about State Failure in Middle East and North Africa
Mira, Rachid - 2021
Several econometric studies (Kauffman, Knack)ĸ tested the relationship between good governance in the sense of “market-enhancing governance” (stimulus institutions market) showing a positive relationship between good governance and economic growth. However, a good governance policy allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248597
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EU's eastern neighbours: institutional harmonisation and potential growth bonus
Radziwill, Artur; Smietanka, Paweł - 2009
This paper provides the quantitative estimate of the potential growth bonus for CIS countries, and in particular EU's Easter Neighbours, that can be a result of deeper institutional harmonisation with the EU. Econometric investigation involving instrumental variable, simultaneous equation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003848673
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Relationship Between Good Governance and Economic Growth. A Contribution to the Institutional Debate About State Failure in Developing Countries
Mira, Rachid - 2019
Numbers of economists of development consider that Good Governance, defined as the quality management and orientation of development policies has a positive influence on economic performance. The question is what content the literature gives to the concept of governance? According to the World...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861806
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China as a Developmental State
Knight, John - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2012
The paper examines the notion of a ‘developmental state’ and shows that China possesses the characteristics of a developmental state. It explains the political economy which generated such a state in China and in some other economies. It analyses the methods and mechanisms that were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570045
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014367373
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The Rentier Predatory State Hypothesis : An Empirical Explanation of the Resource Curse
Alkhater, Khalid R. - 2011
This paper introduces an empirical growth model that explains the observed perplexing growth-resource regime, dubbed the resource curse. The main hypothesis introduced here, the rentier predatory state hypothesis, holds that under autocracy, the interaction between political power and resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187606
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The Rentier Predatory State : An Empirical Investigation of the 'Resource Curse'
Alkhater, Khalid R. - 2009
This paper introduces an empirical growth model that explains the observed perplexing growth-resource regime, dubbed the resource curse. The main hypothesis introduced here, the rentier predatory state hypothesis, holds that under autocracy, the interaction between political power and resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202091