From Rent-seeking to Profit-creation: Private Sector Development and Economic Turnaround in Fragile States

The paper suggests a framework for evaluating the relevance of strategies of private sector development in fostering sustained economic turnaround in fragile and post-conflict situations. It highlights how fragility, violence and conflict change economic structures, introducing distortions, trapping agents into “short-termism” and changing incentives toward rent-seeking, and explores strategies for supporting shifting economic systems from predation to production.

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Year of publication:	2010-11-08
Authors:	Piffaretti, Nadia F.
Institutions:	Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Subject:	Fragile States \| Economic Turnaround

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	MPRA Paper.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Classification:	O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements ; D74 - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances ; D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legistures, and Voting Behavior ; O40 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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