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Arranjos institucionais e a burocracia de infraestrutura : notas para uma história sobre a construção das capacidades estatais no Brasil
Fernandes, Ciro Campos Christo; Silva, Mauro Santos; … - 2017
the formation of the bureaucratic apparatus in the area of economic infrastructure, analyzed from the perspective of the … vector of construction of the State apparatus that dislocates the formation of the bureaucracy away from the central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011639054
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Public administration role in infrastructure development
Grigorescu, Adriana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The infrastructure (transport) is essential for the economic development of a region. If we are taking into … consideration the tourism industry and other tourist activities, the importance of the infrastructure is higher, due to the fact … administration plays a huge role in developing projects for improving the infrastructure or for rehabilitating it. We are presenting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008645107
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When the Victor Cannot Claim the Spoils: Institutional Incentives for Professionalizing Patronage States
Schuster, Christian - 2016
Merit-based selection of bureaucrats is central to state capacity building, yet rare in developing countries. Most executives instead favor patronage -political discretion- in public employment. This paper proposes and tests an original theory to explain when executives forsake patronage for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535755
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When the victor cannot claim the spoils : institutional incentives for professionalizing patronage states
Schuster, Christian - 2016
Merit-based selection of bureaucrats is central to state capacity building, yet rare in developing countries. Most executives instead favor patronage -political discretion- in public employment. This paper proposes and tests an original theory to explain when executives forsake patronage for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457360
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Wpływ Polityki Gospodarczej Na Długookresowy Rozwój Kraju : Studium Przypadku Rozwoju Barbadosu I Jamajki Po Roku 1960 (Influence of Economic Policy on the Country's Level of Devel...
Możdżeń, Michał - 2013
Artykuł ocenia rzeczywisty stopień wpływu stosowanych narzędzi polityki gospodarczej na poziom wzrostu i rozwoju w państwach o podobnym wyposażeniu kulturowym i instytucjonalnym. Wybór Barbadosu i Jamajki, dwóch krajów leżących w tym samym regionie geograficznym i do pierwszej połowy...
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The Dark Side of Infrastructure : Roads, Repression, and Land in Authoritarian Paraguay
González, Felipe; Miquel-Florensa, Josepa; Prem, Mounu; … - 2022
Transportation infrastructure is associated with economic development, but it can also be used for social control and …-led repression and the illegal allocation of agricultural plots to dictatorship allies. These results suggest that infrastructure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264721
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Boom & Bust. Local strategy for big events. A community survival guide to turbulent times
Van Assche, Kristof; Deacon, Leith; Gruezmacher, Monica; … - 2017
Boom and Bust: Local strategy for big events is the result of a collective effort at the University of Alberta to better understand the dramatic ups and downs which too often characterize western Canadian communities. From the Canadian analysis stems this book, which can be helpful in any...
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Rethinking Urban Development
Eagle, Steven - 2012
This short article discusses urban redevelopment, and its relation to economic productivity and various concepts of well being. It notes that solutions adopted in one era are apt to be the problems of the next. The article then introduces the four articles comprising the George Mason Law Review...
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“Economic freedom” and economic growth: questioning the claim that freer markets make societies more prosperous
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
A conventional reading of economic history implies that free market reforms rescued the world’s economies from stagnancy during the 1970s and 1980s. I reexamine a well-established econometric literature linking economic freedom to growth, and argue that their positive findings hinge on two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325575
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Neoliberalism’s relationship with economic growth in the developing world: Was it the power of the market or the resolution of financial crisis?
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This article examines the relationship between "economic freedom" and economic growth. Previous studies have found a positive relationship between economic growth rates and "economic freedom", and used this relationship as a basis for arguing that more liberal economic policies promote...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532159