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Sudanese North-South Border Tribes, Economic Interactions and Seeds of Conflict
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2011
The crisis of Greater Darfur Region of Sudan extends to other regions as the South Sudan prepares for secession next July 2011. In the past eight years Sudan's crisis in Darfur was amplified by global news media all over the world. Civil conflict erupted, developed into armed rebellions and open...
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A Productivity Growth Accounting Approach to the Ranking of Developing and Developed Nations
Raab, Raymond L.; Feroz, Ehsan H. - 2018
global economy.ERRATUM: Section 2 ‘DEA National Government (NG) Model’ draws heavily from Ehsan H. Feroz, Raymond Raab and …
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Democracy and aid donorship
Fuchs, Andreas; Müller, Angelika - 2018 - This version: September 2018
Almost half of the world's states provide bilateral development assistance. While previous research takes the set of donor countries as exogenous, this article is the first to explore the determinants of aid donorship. We hypothesize that democratic institutions reduce poor countries' likelihood...
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Economic development, democratic institutions, and repression in non-democratic regimes : theory and evidence
Kemnitz, Alexander; Roessler, Martin - 2017
This paper analyzes the utilization of repression and democratic institutions by a non-democratic government striving …, depending on whether it appears in the form of rises in income or in education: A higher income level reduces democracy, whereas … more education leads to both more democracy and more repression. These theoretical findings are corroborated by panel data …
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Globalisation, democracy and citizens' sovereignty : can competition among governments enhance democracy?
Vanberg, Viktor - In: Institutions, globalisation and empowerment, (pp. 75-106). 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003341147
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Aid, public sector fiscal behaviour and developing country debt
Feeny, Simon; McGillivray, Mark - 2002
This paper looks at public sector debt in developing countries, being concerned specifically with the relationship between aid inflows and the public sector borrowing requirement net of aid loans. After examining the public sector budget constraint and various conditions under which aid might...
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Developing country second-mover advantage in competition over environmental standards and taxes
Groenert, Valeska; Zissimos, Benjamin - 2011
We show that, in competition between a developed country and a developing country over environmental standards and taxes, the developing country may have a second-mover advantage. In our model, firms do not unanimously prefer lower environmental-standard levels. We introduce this feature to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280637
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Varieties of capitalism, governance and government spending: A cross-section analysis
Ahrens, Joachim; Schweickert, Rainer; Zenker, Juliane - 2011
We argue that the literature on government size suffers from neglecting the role of governance both as a driving and a … limiting factor for government spending. Cross-country evidence for a sample of 126 developed and developing countries …, more open countries are likely to spend more in cases of minor quality of governance only. In this respect, government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285722
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Varieties of capitalism, governance and government spending : a cross-section analysis
Ahrens, Joachim; Schweickert, Rainer; Zenker, Juliane - 2011
We argue that the literature on government size suffers from neglecting the role of governance both as a driving and a … limiting factor for government spending. Cross-country evidence for a sample of 126 developed and developing countries …, more open countries are likely to spend more in cases of minor quality of governance only. In this respect, government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009244366
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Developing country second-mover advantage in competition over environmental standards and taxes
Groenert, Valeska; Zissimos, Benjamin - 2011
We show that, in competition between a developed country and a developing country over environmental standards and taxes, the developing country may have a "second-mover advantage." In our model, firms do not unanimously prefer lower environmental-standard levels. We introduce this feature to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009412372