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The study contributes to the political economy debate in Africa by examining the extent to which economic development mediates the effect of elections on government expenditure. To this end, the study employs macrodata spanning 1985-2015 on 43 African countries for the analysis. Robust evidence...
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Despite the growing public debate on fiscal surprise during election periods in jurisdictions where the democratic dispensation is young, comprehensive empirical works to this effect in the case of Africa are hard to find. This study, therefore, sought to contribute to the debate on two counts....
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two is far more complicated for developing countries like India, given the dependence of a large section of the population … created using the HDI methodology. The EQ ranks of the States exhibit variation over time, implying that environment has both …
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East India Company in 1757. Even after partition, in 1947, till the early 1950s, West Bengal's industrial contribution was … highest among all the states of India. Then the decline started. Few possible causes of the decline, both non-economic and …) Bengal centric parochial politics; (iv) the Union government's discriminatory policies against Bengal.Post colonial India has …
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States of India. We go on to present an analysis of the current status and the Policy Frameworks underlying the top … performing States of India, as measured by the ASEPI …
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