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Piotr Kozarzewski and Maciej Bałtowski analyse the causes and manifestations of Poland's recent shift in economic policy towards a more active role of the state, and use privatization policy as an example. The authors examine the effects of the privatization policy and point to a large...
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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...
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This contribution explores the importance of independent organizations in authoritarian regimes. While some authoritarian governments delegate policy tasks to (relatively) autonomous agencies simply in order to improve their domestic or international image as modern political leaders or to build...
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Die Zahl der Covid-19-Fälle und der damit verbundenen Todesfälle in Afrika wird in den offiziellen Daten erheblich …, dass die Meldelücke im Vergleich zu anderen Weltregionen besonders groß ist, Afrika gleichwohl immer noch relativ gut … abschneidet. Die Autoren stellen fest, dass der Rückgang der wirtschaftlichen Aktivität in Afrika im Jahr 2020 zwar weniger stark …
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Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has … of diversification in Africa's economies-in contrast to Asia's success stories. Structural adjustment did not change the … manufacturing and service clusters, Africa is yet to follow East Asia in integrating with the global economy in ways that add value …
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expended to develop capacity in Africa with mixed results. This paper provides a working definition of capacity that is …
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Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal Institutional Pluralism (LIP) and New Structural...
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