Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 3,111
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133443
Cover Image
How and Why Economies Develop and Grow : Lessons from Preindustrial Europe and China
Kohn, Meir - 2010
Why are we rich and others poor? What is preventing the less-developed countries from catching up with the more developed? How did we become rich? Underlying these questions are more fundamental ones: What is the nature of economic progress? What are its causes? I seek the answers to these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135194
Cover Image
African Political Institutions and the Impact of Colonialism
Bolt, Jutta; Gardner, Leigh; Kohler, Jennifer; Paine, Jack - 2022
Conventional wisdom proposes deep historical roots for authoritarianism in Africa: either colonial “decentralized despotism” or enduring structural features. We present a new theoretical perspective. Africans sought autonomous local communities, which constrained precolonial rulers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243137
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015166
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260542
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273440
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862801
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199020
Cover Image
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012939715
Cover Image
Level of Socio-Political Stability, Income Distribution and Democracy in Africa
Badri, Houda; Souam, Saïd - 2022
[enteThe question of the links between inequality and democraty is still the subject of an intense academic debate. We revisit this question by taking explicitly into account the interactions between the level of of socio-political stability and inequality in order to measure their impact on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293684