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Natural resources, institutions, and economic transformation in Mozambique
Macuane, José Jaime; Muianga, Carlos - 2020
In the light of Mozambique's natural resources boom-especially its large-scale investments in mining, oil, and gas-this paper analyses the prospects for the extractive industries to contribute to economic transformation from an institutional perspective. To this purpose, we address the...
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Economic Transformation Through Political Change? Evidence from Turkey
Akan, Taner - 2019
Turkey recently initiated a political change by replacing its parliamentary model with the presidential governmental system (PGS) to achieve, inter alia, a structural transformation from an efficiency-driven to an innovation-driven model of growth. To investigate the PGS's potential for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867801
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Aid Effectiveness: Politics Matters
Bobba, Matteo; Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
The literature on aid effectiveness has focused more on recipient policies than the determinants of aid allocation yet a consistent result is that political allies obtain more aid from donors than non-allies. This paper shows that aid allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth,...
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New industrial policy and the extractive industries
Dietsche, Evelyn - 2017
Industrial policy is back. Advocates for industrial policy argue that the important question is not whether such policies should be applied at all, but how to design and implement them. For the extractive industries this development poses a challenge. First, there is the argument that host...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776473
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What are the prospects for Mozambique to diversify its economy on the back of "local content"?
Dietsche, Evelyn; Esteves, Ana Maria - 2018
domestic capital - in people, institutions, and infrastructure. Looking at the policy environment, this paper argues that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913182
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New industrial policy and the extractive industries
Dietsche, Evelyn - 2017
Industrial policy is back. Advocates for industrial policy argue that the important question is not whether such policies should be applied at all, but how to design and implement them. For the extractive industries this development poses a challenge. First, there is the argument that host...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943764
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The political economy of productivity in Brazil
Alston, Lee J.; Mueller, Bernardo; Melo, Marcus André; … - 2010
This paper explores the link between Brazil's political institutions and its disappointing productivity and growth in … recent decades. Although political institutions provide the president with incentives and the instruments to pursue monetary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314042
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Public-Private Collaboration on Productive Development Policies in Costa Rica
Cornick, Jorge; Jimenez, Jorge; Román, Marcela - 2014
Public-private collaboration in productive development policy in Costa Rica frequently takes the form of policy co-governance: an autonomous institution in charge of policy for a particular economic sector is created, with a board of directors comprising representatives from both the public and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314118
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Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Case of Mexico
Baz, Veronica; Capelo, Maria Cristina; Centeno, Rodrigo; … - 2010
While Mexico has potential to grow rapidly, its economic growth has remained low for the past three decades. There is no consensus on the country's development path or on how to achieve specific goals. Since the policy debate remains ideological and lacks pragmatism, productive development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328212
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Institutions and Asia's development: The role of norms and organizational power
Khan, Mushtaq H. - 2018
The role of institutions in Asian development has been intensely contested since Myrdal's Asian Drama, with later … agree about the institutions that matter nor do they explain why similar institutions delivered such different results … across countries. Cultural norms and informal institutions clearly matter but the appropriate norms did not already exist in …
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