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Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide …
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This paper studies the consequences of certain widespread policies for the quality and sustainability of growth. These policies cause economic inefficiency, environmental destruction and increased poverty. The paper develops a political economy model to show why the existence of such policies is...
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nation has incorporated into an increasingly integrated global production and financial system. National elites have … experienced a new fractionation. Emergent transnationally-oriented elites grounded in globalized circuits of accumulation compete … with older nationally-oriented elites grounded in more protected and often state-guided national and regional circuits …
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Explanations are provided for why governments do as they do in agriculture. Alternative frameworks are assessed to explain government policy including collective action and politician-voter interaction models. Several key patterns of policies are analyzed including the “developmental...
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