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| Zhang, Xiaobo. |
| Since the early 1990s, Uganda has been one of Africas fastest growing countries. However, at the sub-national level, growth has been uneven due to civil conflict in the northern region. Using a panel of household and community level data, this paper examines the links between security and economic growth. It is found that security is a pre-condition for successful economic development and that there is in fact a threshold level of security below which public investments in infrastructure and education have little impact on growth. Only when security exceeds this threshold do public investments stimulate economic growth. Economists and policy advisors living in peaceful countries often prescribe economic policies that hinge on the assumption of good... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Security; Civil Strife; Growth; Poverty; Uganda; Africa; International Development; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16172 |
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| Hamada, Koichi. |
| 1968 was an epoch-making year in the Japanese economic history, or in the Japanese history in general. In this centennial year after the Meiji restoration, Japan's GNP became the second largest in the world surpassing West Germany. Japan was cruising on one of the most rapid growth trajectories, but it was anticipating the shade of future changes. Student movements flourished, being synchronized the world over, pollution in urban areas erupted and inflationary pressure began to surface. Japan's balance of current account turned into a pattern of chronic surplus, the pattern that led to the collapse of the Bretton Woods regime. In the socio-economic sense, 1968 was a reflection point of Japan's high growth period. This paper describes the economic forces... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Japan; High growth period; Student movements; Collapse of Bretton Woods; Pollution; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28487 |
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| Hittler, Candice. |
| Since 1994 South Africa has been unable to sustainably achieve the rates of economic growth necessary to decrease its very high level of unemployment. Inadequate growth has been exacerbated by a structural increase in the share of private non-tradables (skill-intensive) employment alongside a parallel decline in tradable (low-skill) employment. Against this backdrop the concept of “The Developmental State” has resurfaced in policy discussions. The 2009 Manifesto of the African National Congress declared a “state-led” industrial policy will lead to the transformation of the economy. However, there are significant institutional and governance constraints that need to be overcome if “state-led” industrial policy is to succeed. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99246 |
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| Alemu, Zerihun Gudeta; Oosthuizen, L.K.; van Schalkwyk, Herman D.. |
| Agriculture in the Ethiopian economy has survived three major structural breaks, namely the 1974 change of policy in favour of a command-based economic system, the 1984 famine and the 1992 change of policy that introduced a market economy. A regression procedure was applied to analyze the effect of these breaks on the slope and intercept of agricultural GDP. In addition, statistical properties were studied to measure the degree of persistence of shocks in agricultural GDP. In the regression equation, only the 1984 famine was found to be significant. The non-significance of policy parameters in the regression equation could be associated with a lack of infrastructural facilities and the subsistence nature of Ethiopian agriculture. The study of the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Political Economy; Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19089 |
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| Soubeyran, Raphael. |
| Does a disadvantaged candidate always choose an extremist program? When does a less competent candidate have an incentive to move to extreme positions in order to differentiate himself from the more competent candidate? If the answer to these questions were positive, as suggested in recent work (Ansolabehere and Snyder (2000), Aragones and Palfrey (2002), Groseclose (1999), and Aragones and Palfrey (2003)), this would mean that extremist candidates are bad politicians. We consider a two candidates electoral competition over public consumption, with a two dimensional policy space and two dimensions of candidates heterogeneity. In this setting, we show that the conclusion depends on candidates relative competences over the two public goods and distinguish... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12191 |
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| Zhang, Desheng; Jiao, Yunqiu. |
| The necessity of taking government as the implementing subject in the construction of new countryside was analyzed from the aspects such as narrowing urban-rural gap, government’s responsibility, connotation and complexity of new countryside construction. Dynamic mechanism of government in the construction of new countryside was discussed, and some problems were introduced. The basic reason of these problems was the deficiency of government’s publicity. Firstly, self-interest of government led to the deviation of public target. Secondly, government was controlled by superior groups, thus benefits of vulnerable groups can’t be ensured. On this basis, establishing an incentive and constraint mechanism for government officers was put forward. It was essential... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: New countryside construction; Implementing subject; Dynamic mechanism; China; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53755 |
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| Henke, Roberto; Sardone, Roberta. |
| Direct payments have progressively become the largest and most visible form of support in the CAP tool-box. Analyses on direct payments have always highlighted a large inequality in their distribution, both between Member States and, within them, among farmers and territories where, on one side, a relevant amount of payments is concentrated in the hands of a few beneficiaries; on the other, a small share of support is divided among many heads. The European Commission has faced the problem of the volume and the distribution of the direct payments with two main instruments: the modulation and the capping. Modulation was originally conceived as a temporary tool aimed at filling the gap between pillars, but in the last years it has changed shape and rules... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: CAP Budget; CAP Pillars; Health Check; Rural Development Policies; Agricultural and Food Policy; Political Economy; Q18. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44816 |
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