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Natural resources: Curse or blessing?
van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2010
a resource boom reinforces rent grabbing and civil conflict especially if institutions are bad, induces corruption … and bad growth prospects, and that these adverse effects are more severe in volatile countries with bad institutions and … lack of rule of law, corruption, presidential democracies, and underdeveloped financial systems. Another hypothesis is that …
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Re-Theorizing the Informal Economy in Western Nations : Some Lessons From Rural England
Williams, Colin - 2015
For much of the 20th century, the informal economy in advanced western nations was depicted as a leftover from an earlier mode of production and disappearing from view. In recent decades, however, with the recognition that it persists and is even growing, it has been variously re-theorized as...
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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 generalized synthetic control method and evaluates the role played by natural resource dependence on the modulation of the impact. We find that political crisis, protests and...
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Explaining the Prevalence of the Informal Economy in the Baltics : An Institutional Asymmetry Perspective
Williams, Colin - 2017
The aim of this paper is to map the spatial variations in the size of the shadow economy within Brussels. Reporting data provided by the National Bank of Belgium on the deposit of high denomination banknotes across bank branches in the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, the...
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Institutional Complementarity, Economic Performance, and Governance in the Post-Communist World
Markus, Stanislav; Mendelski, Martin - 2018
institutions as well as its combination of macro-level and firm-level dimensions. Theoretically, we use the index to propose two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014133871
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Governance for Inclusive Growth
Ivanyna, Maksym; Salerno, Andrea - 2022
discretion and hence the space for policy errors; (2) human resource policies, capacity building, effective anti-corruption …, and inclusive political institutions to inform and monitor policymaking …
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Is informality a barrier to economic growth in Uganda? Empirical analysis
Esaku, Stephen - 2021
We apply autoregressive distributed lag modeling approach to investigate the short- and long-run relationship between economic growth and informality in Uganda. We use annual time series data, covering the period from 1991 to 2017. We find evidence of short- and long-run relationship between...
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A two-thirds rate of success: Polish transformation and economic development, 1989 - 2008
Kolodko, Grzegorz W. - 2009
Progress in achieving institutional changes should be evaluated through the prism of their influence on the development abilities of the relevant country. In Poland, during 20 years of comprehensive systemic shift, GDP increased more than in any other postsocialist country. To judge the...
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Growth engines of the South? South Africa's, Brazil's and Turkey's market constellations in comparison
Duman, Alper; Heise, Arne - 2009
The world is experiencing its worst recession in 80 years. What started as US sub-prime financial turmoil has developed into the first global recession since the infamous 'Great Depression' of the early 1930s. However gloomy the perspectives for the very short term are, there will be a recovery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302522
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Institutions, policies and economic development
Kolodko, Grzegorz W. - 2006
nstitutions are not only created and built, but also, and especially, need to be learnt. It is a process which takes place in all economies, but acquires a special importance in less advanced countries. Not only theoretical arguments, but also the practical experience over the past 15 years...
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