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The study extends the implications of Piketty's celebrated literature from developed countries to the nexus between developed nations and African countries by building on responses from Rogoff (2014) & Stiglitz (2014), post Washington Consensus paradigms and underpinnings from Solow-Swan &...
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Insufficient labor policies contribute to poverty, while those poverty conditions contribute to limited employment opportunities and labor rights abuses. Traditional multilateral lending institutions, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, provide development aid but tend to...
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This paper reviews the main obstacles to human and social development posed by the current external debt burdens of the least development countries. In particular, it analyses the shortcomings of the mechanisms and thresholds used to assess the sustainability of debt levels in the HIPC...
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While growth has increased in Tanzania during the past five or six years, it is still too low to have a visible impact on poverty. Indeed, recent evidence suggests that the amounts of both income and non-income poverty are roughly the same as they were a decade ago. Since debt relief provided...
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This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...
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Recent studies find that democratization increases economic growth. However, these studies do not always consider the channels through which democratization raises growth. This study considers whether or not democratization improves institutions that have often been argued to increase economic...
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appearance of the regime's key institutions during the review period, democracy remains far from complete. However, the …
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This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668293
-Aktivisten reagieren. Dann wird Divestment aus dem Blickwinkel marktwirtschaftlicher Konzeptionen und aus Sicht von Demokratie und … Rechtsstaat beleuchtet. Es zeigt sich: Betroffene Unternehmen weichen dem Divestment-Druck aus. Kritische Assets werden in … of market economy concepts and from the viewpoint of democracy and the rule of law. It turns out that affected companies …
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