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Southeast Asia in the New Global Economy : Emerging Challenges from Africa and Latin America
Cammack, Paul - 2014
(Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) and the World Bank in particular to celebrate dynamic growth in Asia, Africa … ‘South-South' growth. In this context, the paper offers a stylized comparison of Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067322
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The macroeconomic impact of recent political conflicts in Africa : generalized synthetic counterfactual evidence
Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2021
This paper measures the macroeconomic impact of recent political crisis, protest and uprisings in Africa with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650707
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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966676
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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960429
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South Africa's response to the Covid-19 pandemic : the crisis in the context of the history of South African capitalism
Scully, Ben - 2023
. This paper provides this background context for the country of South Africa. The South African case illustrates the … ideological and political space for South Africa to depart from neoliberal orthodoxy in ways that seemed unlikely before the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014314227
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African trade policy in the 1990s: Political economy or technocratic reforms?
Jones, Chris; Morrissey, Oliver; Nelson, Doug - 2008
The majority of African countries implemented import liberalisation in the 1990s. This paper explores factors that may explain the pattern of protection and of tariff reform. We consider political economy explanations, motivated specifically by the Grossman and Helpman (1994) model of protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288494
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The political economy of development assistance : peril to government quality dynamics in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
This paper assesses the effectiveness of foreign aid in improving government institutions in 52 African countries using updated data (1996-2010). Findings suggest development assistance deteriorates government quality dynamics of corruption-control, political-stability, rule of law, regulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410244
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Political Economy
Mause, Karsten - 2018
The term "Political Economy" (PE) is mainly used in two related contexts. First, it is used to denote a multidisciplinary research field in which political scientists, economists, legal scholars, and other social scientists investigate the relationship between the political sphere (most notably...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931733
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Political Economy of Forgiveness
Boettke, Peter J.; Coyne, Christopher J. - 2010
A successful transition involves balancing a decisive break with the previous regime with the simultaneous minimization of the costs associated with the administration of justice. Where the benefits of pursuing transitional justice outweigh the associated costs, the administration of justice is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014189852
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Do Structural Reforms Always Succeed? Lessons from Brazil
Arbache, Jorge - 2004
In the last twenty years, Brazil has experienced several attempts of improving sustainable growth through stabilization programs, and more recently, structural reforms in line with the Washington Consensus Agenda. The results, however, have been disappointing, as the per capita output growth has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014070957