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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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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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Breaking the mold : thoughts on Punjab's future economic development
Singh, Nirvikar - 2015
The economy of Punjab state in India offers an interesting case study. Punjab has been for decades - and remains - one of India's better-off states, and so it tends not be included in the primary focus of national programs meant to reduce poverty or spur economic development. But, Punjab's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376368
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Democratic development and credit : "Democracy doesn't come cheap" but at least credit to its corporations will be
Delēs, Manthos D.; Hasan, Iftekhar; Ongena, Steven - 2017
democratization has a sizeable negative effect on loan spreads: a one-point increase in the zero-to-ten Polity IV index of democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761252
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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/10014390540
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Priority Roads : The Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads
Bonfatti, Roberto - 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/10012892107
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Persistence of Confucian Values? Legacies of Imperialism in China & Taiwan
Jung, Samuel - 2017
In this paper, we analyze the long-run effects of Western and Japanese imperial expansion on the survival of Confucian values in China and Taiwan. Mainland China and Taiwan had been under the rule of the Qing dynasty and shared the same culture and societal structure before the onset of imperial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967548
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Priority Roads : The Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2020
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/10014108555
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The Politics of Intellectual Property Reform in Developing Countries
Deere Birkbeck, Carolyn - 2009
The approach taken by developing countries to intellectual property (IP) decision-making varies widely. This variation raises several questions: How do politics at the national level impact the prospects for development-oriented IP reforms? What kind of institutional frameworks would best ensure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765430
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Reforming Governance to Advance the WIPO Development Agenda
Deere Birkbeck, Carolyn - 2009
The success of the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Development Agenda will depend upon reforms to the agency's governance. At the 2007 WIPO General Assemblies, several of the recommendations on the Development Agenda adopted by member states specifically alluded to the need for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765431