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Impeding Authoritarian Transparency : How China’s Industrial Giants Hold Back Institutional Reform
Lorentzen, Peter L.; Landry, Pierre F.; Yasuda, John K. - 2015
Recent transparency reforms in China are intended in part to help activists, journalists, and others to limit the …
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China's tax-for-fee reform and village inequality
Alm, James; Liu, Yongzheng - In: Oxford development studies 42 (2014) 1, pp. 38-64
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Do voters dislike liberalizing reforms? : new evidence using data on satisfaction with democracy
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2018
Since the early 1980s a wave of liberalizing reforms has swept over the world. While the stated motivation for these reforms has usually been to increase economic efficiency, some critics have instead inferred ulterior motives and a desire to enrich certain (already rich) people at the expense...
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Subnational border reforms and economic development in Africa
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Blesse, Sebastian - 2018
A recent literature suggests that arbitrarily designed administrative borders are an important reason why sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the least developed regions on the globe. Accordingly, administrative border reforms may be a way to promote growth on the African continent. In this paper,...
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Subnational Border Reforms and Economic Development in Africa
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Blesse, Sebastian - 2020
Arbitrarily designed borders have been identified by a recent literature as an important reason why sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the poorest regions on the globe. Accordingly, border changes may be a way to promote growth on the African continent. In this paper, we study the effect of...
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Myanmar : cross-cutting governance challenges
Hendrix, Cullen; Noland, Marcus - 2015
Since 2010, Myanmar has been in the midst of a multifaceted transition, involving economic reforms, the resolution of multiple long-standing civil conflicts, and a nascent transition to democratic rule. These transitions are coinciding with a resource-led economic boom. The paper assesses the...
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Political parties, clientelism, and bureaucratic reform
Cruz, Cesi; Keefer, Philip - 2015
The challenge of public administration reform is well-known: politicians often have little interest in the efficient implementation of government policy. Using new data from 439 World Bank public sector reform loans in 109 countries, we demonstrate that such reforms are significantly less likely...
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The "Chinese style reforms" and the Hungarian "Goulash Communism"
Csanádi, Mária - 2009
transformation first in China, accompanied by macroeconomic growth. …
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The "Chinese style reforms" and the Hungarian "Goulash Communism"
Csanádi, Mária - 2009
transformation first in China, accompanied by macroeconomic growth. -- reforms ; transformation ; party-state systems ; goulash …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824106
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Economic Reforms in China and India : Past and Future Challenges
Borin, Alessandro - 2016
In China and India broad economic reforms since the 1980s progressively opened to private initiative and international …, qualitatively more complex and politically less palatable. This paper identifies the turning points in China's and India's long … growth process. In China, the priorities are to foster new growth engines by boosting domestic consumption and improving …
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