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Die Sachs-Easterly-Kontroverse : "Dissent on Development" revisited
Hielscher, Stefan - 2008
Der entwicklungsökonomische Diskurs ist aktuell geprägt durch eine kontroverse Debatte zwischen Jeffrey Sachs und William Easterly. Der Beitrag rekonstruiert beide Ansätze aus ordonomischer Perspektive. Er argumentiert, dass eine auf Kooperation angelegte Semantik vergleichsweise besser...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786028
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Optimal Fiscal Spending and Reserve Accumulation Policies Under Volatile Aid
Moldovan, Ioana - 2019
This paper assesses the optimal setting of fiscal spending and foreign exchange rate intervention policies in response to volatile foreign aid, in a small open economy model that incorporates typical features of low-income countries. Within a class of policy rules, it jointly considers the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866907
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Die Sachs-Easterly-Kontroverse : "Dissent on Development" revisited
Hielscher, Stefan - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003696084
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A new explanatory model for policy analysis and evaluation
Schouwstra, Marije; Ellman, Michael - 2006
This model of policy evaluation has been developed to identify factors that cause policy outcomes to diverge from the intended results. In this model the explanatory factors may be inherent to the conceptual and institutional framework to which policy makers adhere, or they may be ‘real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349191
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A Lipsetian theory of democratization : development, education, inequality, and resources
Boucekkine, Raouf; Piacquadio, Paolo G.; Prieur, Fabien - 2016
The paper reexamines Lipset's theory of democratization, by distinguishing the role of (economic) development from that … explanation of the positive relationship between economic development, education, and democratization, and of the negative … relationship between inequality and democratization. Furthermore, we obtain new insights on the resources-curse hypothesis and on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587539
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A Lipsetian Theory of Democratization : Development, Education, Inequality, and Resources
Boucekkine, Raouf - 2017
The paper reexamines Lipset's theory of democratization, by distinguishing the role of (economic) development from that … explanation of the positive relationship between economic development, education, and democratization, and of the negative … relationship between inequality and democratization. Furthermore, we obtain new insights on the resources-curse hypothesis and on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963389
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Oligarchy, Democracy and ’la peur du déclassement’
Bhargava, Palaash - 2018
This paper analyses the impact of the fear of losing social status (la peur du déclassement) on the levels of democratisation and economic growth. In a formal model where education makes an individual's vote count and generates positive externalities for all agents in the economy, I examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915858
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Contests, NGOs and decentralizing aid
Epstein, Gil S. (contributor); Gang, Ira N. (contributor) - 2005
International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups attempting to capture the donor's support play a potentially important role for nongovernmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003053135
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Contests, Ngos and Decentralizing Aid
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021
International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups attempting to capture the donor's support play a potentially important role for nongovernmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318339
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Demokratie durch Entwicklungskonkurrenz
Wockenfuß, Christof - 2009
in favor of development contracts, proposing to provide development aid only in exchange for democratization. However … of endogenous democratization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786678