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Burleson, Elizabeth - 2009

Reasonable and equitable water resource decision-making is at the core of good governance around the world. Sustained water collaboration is an antidote to foreign relations disintegration. Lack of water quality and quantity policies can lead to water insecurity for everyone, yet bureaucratic...

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Thinking Ahead of the Next Big Crash : Clues From Athens in Classical Times

Bitros, Georgios (George) C. - 2020

Credible analyses and evidence submitted by experts from universities, international organizations and independent think tanks show that the trends which led to the 2008 worldwide financial crisis remain intact. As a result, central for responsible leaderships should be the concern how to...

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Advancing Structural Reforms in OECD Countries : Lessons from Twenty Case Studies

Tompson, William - 2010

This paper presents in summary form the findings that emerge from a study of 20 structural reform episodes in 10 OECD countries. The study’s principal messages may be summarised as follows. First, it pays to have an electoral mandate for reform. Secondly, major reforms should be accompanied by...

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The political economy of the 'resource curse' : a development perspective

Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal - 2020

This paper reviews the recent literature on the developmental effects of resource abundance, assessing likely effects and channels with respect to income inequality, poverty, education, and health. To date, this area has received less analysis although it is relevant to the Sustainable...

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Is there a fiscal resource curse? : resource rents, fiscal capacity, and political institutions in developing economies

Masi, Tania; Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal - 2020

States' fiscal capacity plays a pivotal role in developing economies, but it is less clear what its determinants are or what explains cross-country differences. We focus on the impact of natural resources. Standard arguments suggest that natural resources rents may reduce incentives to invest in...

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Democratisation in Africa: The Role of Self-Enforcing Constitutional Rules

Plessis, Sophia du; Jansen, Ada; Siebrits, Krige - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2014

Following several decades during which violent civil conflict was common in African countries, the period from 1990 … countries cannot attain sustainable conflict resolution. Drawing on economic ideas about contracts and institutions, this paper … become self-enforcing in order to safeguard democratic systems and to avoid relapses into violent civil conflict. We discuss …

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Institutions and prosperity A review of Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson, Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters, Princeton University Press, Prin...

Jennings, Colin - In: European Journal of Political Economy 29 (2013) C, pp. 252-258

This article reviews 'Pillars of Prosperity' by Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson and 'Why Nations Fail' by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. Both books are focussed on the role of institutions in determining the wealth of nations and the review compares and contrasts the different approaches...

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Whistleblower or Troublemaker? How One Man Took on the Soviet Mafia

Harrison, Mark - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2009

The paper tells the story of a pensioner’s fight against a local mafia of Soviet party and government officials and farm managers in a remote rural locality in the 1950s. To Moscow, he was a whistleblower. To the leaders of his local community, he was a troublemaker. Working together, the...

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Endogenous Policy Decentralization : Testing the Central Tenet of Economic Federalism

Strumpf, Koleman S.; Oberholzer-Gee, Felix - 2001

The economic theory of federalism is largely built around the premise that more heterogeneous preferences result in more decentralized policy-making. Despite its prominence and importance, this central tenet of economic federalism has never been empirically evaluated. This paper presents the...

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After the Storm of 2000 : Fiji's Troubled Path Toward Justice and Reconciliation

Chang, Kevin C - 2015

In the wake of Fiji's coup d'état of 2000, which unleashed an unprecedented level of violence and destruction to the country, the people of Fiji demanded a process of national reconciliation to heal the wounds of the past and build a more peaceful future. Fiji's troubled path to reconciliation...

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