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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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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 …

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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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On the Dynamics of Ethnic Fractionalization

Campos, Nauro F.; Kuzeyev, Vitaliy S. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Does fractionalization change over time? If so, are there any substantial implications foreconomic performance? To answer such questions, we construct a new panel data set withfractionalization measures for 26 former communist countries covering the period from 1989to 2002...

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Botswana as a role model for country success

Robinson, James A. - 2009

I argue that the economic success of Botswana can be explained by the historical development of its institutions which is related to the trajectory of the Tswana states over the past 200 years. These institutions created a much more stable and accountable government than elsewhere in Africa...

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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 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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China’s Development Path : Government, Business, and Globalization in an Innovating Economy

Li, Yin; Lazonick, William - 2022

We employ the “social conditions of innovative enterprise” framework to analyze the key determinants of China’s development path from the economic reforms of 1978 to the present. First, we focus on how government investments in human capabilities and physical infrastructure provided...

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The Ethiopian Developmental State and Its Challenges

Woldegiyorgis, Ayenachew - 2014

Though Ethiopia officially claims to be a developmental state, the issue remains divisive among its politicians and scholars alike. In the past few years polarized opinions have been reflected on: whether or not the developmental state paradigm is a right choice for Ethiopia considering its...

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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...

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