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Media underreporting as a barrier to India-Pakistan trade normalization : quantitative analysis of newsprint dailies
Mediratta, Rahul - 2014
waves of trade-related activity reflected in popular media coverage? This question connects to a longstanding and important … criticism that media coverage on India-Pakistan relations is pre-occupied with security events, to the exclusion of non … which the public pressure politicians to do so. This paper measures the quantum of nearly two decades of media coverage on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412345
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Context matters - rethinking the resource curse in Sub-Saharan Africa
Basedau, Matthias - 2005
Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa's illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929290
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Media underreporting as a barrier to India-Pakistan trade normalization: Quantitative analysis of newsprint dailies
Mediratta, Rahul - 2014
waves of trade-related activity reflected in popular media coverage? This question connects to a longstanding and important … criticism that media coverage on India-Pakistan relations is pre-occupied with security events, to the exclusion of non … which the public pressure politicians to do so. This paper measures the quantum of nearly two decades of media coverage on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807694
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Watchdog or Lapdog? Media and the U.S. Government
Qian, Nancy; Yangagizawa, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Abstract This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State Department to under-report human rights violations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468546
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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa
Basedau, Matthias - 2005
Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa's illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906519
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Phronesis and resource curse hypothesis in post-independent Sierra Leone
Jackson, E. A. - 2016
This study was undertaken with a view of presenting a balanced critical discourse on the concept of Phronesis as applied in the political economy of Sierra Leone. The country is renowned for being endowed with the abundance of non(renewable) natural resources, while at the same time for poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011811692
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Nature's blessing or nature's curse : the political economy of transition in resource-based economies
Esanov, Akram; Raiser, Martin; Buiter, Willem H. - 2004
This paper analyses the reform progress made in the energy-rich states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (AKTU for short) and contrasts their development to that in the resource-poor countries at the CIS periphery. The main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011578160
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Costs and consequences of the expropriation of FDI by host governments
Duncan, Roderick - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006
There are no laws preventing a host government from seizing the capital of a foreign direct investment in its borders and then denying any compensation for the foreign investor. Why do we not see many more expropriations of investor capital by host governments? Compiling a database of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010914849
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The Illusory Leader: Natural Resources, Taxation and Accountability
McGuirk, Eoin F.; McGuirk, Eoin F. - Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), … - 2010
political elite through increased returns to staying in power. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498170
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Are Two Economic Instruments Better Than One? Combining Taxes and Quotas under Political Lobbying
Finkelshtain, Israel; Kan, Iddo; Kislev, Yoav - Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, … - 2010
Direct commands, market based, or combined, whichever is the government's mean of intervention, is expected to raise political lobbying and pressure. This study offers a political-economic model of an industry, which is regulated by an integrated system of both direct and market based policies....
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