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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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Fundamental Determinants of Inequality and the Role of Government

Tanzi, Vito - 2006

This paper discusses the fundamental determinants of inequality. These are identified as world or market forces, social norms, ownership of real and human capital, and the role of government. The change in the relative role of these factors in determining inequality during economic development...

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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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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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Economic globalisation and inclusive green growth in Africa : contingencies and policy-relevant thresholds of governance

Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Figari, Francesco - 2022

This study employs macrodata for 23 African countries to examine whether good governance interacts with economic globalisation (EG) to foster inclusive green growth (IGG). First, the study finds that EG hampers IGG in Africa. Second, although unconditionally good governance promotes IGG, only...

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