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Developing Capacity: The IMF's Impact on State Capacity
Harper, Christine - 2006
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the impact of International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans since the adoption of the governance mandate on overall government capability. The study will explore whether the presence of IMF loans in developing countries enhances state capacity. Administrative...
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Explaining Postcommunist Economic Performance
King, Lawrence Peter - 2003
This article critiques neoliberal transition theory from a neoclassical sociological perspective. Neoliberals argue that postcommunist economic failure is the result of inadequate adherence to neoliberal precepts. This paper argues that the neoliberal policy package of “Shock Therapy”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476836
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Privatization and State Capacity in Postcommunist Society
King, Lawrence Peter; Hamm, Patrick - 2005
Economists have used cross-national regression analysis to argue that postcommunist economic failure is the result of inadequate adherence liberal economic policies. Sociologists have relied on case study data to show that postcommunist economic failure is the outcome of too close adherence to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477529
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Informality, productivity, and enforcement in West Africa: A firm level analysis
Benjamin, Nancy; Mbaye, Aly - 2010
of informal businesses. And sample designs are shaped by a narrow and in our view misleading definition of informality as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476958
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The Determinants of Rising Informality in Brazil: Evidence from Gross Worker Flows
Bosch, Mariano; Goni, Edwin; Maloney, William - 2006
This paper studies gross worker flows to explain the rising informality in Brazilian metropolitan labor markets from … and Maloney’s (2006) findings for Mexico that the patternsof worker transitions between formality and informality … correspond primarily to the job-to-job dynamics observed in the US and not to the traditional idea of informality constituting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477112
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Entrepreneurial Entry in Developing Economies: Modeling Interactions Between the Formal and Informal Sector
Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - 2007
formal andinformal status. Thus we explore issues such as how informality may enable anentrepreneur to test the profitability …. Also,we show that financial constraints can interact with the option of informality to induceentry. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477113
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Report on the Latin American economy. First half of 2020
social tension in the final stretch of last year. Some factors, such as high labour market informality and the improvable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012524815