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Post-conflict reconstruction, stabilization and growth agenda for Sudan

Elbadawi, Ibrahim; Amin, Magdi; Elobaid, Amir; Alhelo, … - 2023

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Let's install leaders for life! : why get hung up on democracy? : a modest, "Swiftian" proposal

Kets de Vries, Manfred F. R. - 2020

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Differentials in Property Rights in a two sector-economy

Caruso, Raul - Network of European Peace Scientists - NEPS - 2012

This paper presents a two-sector economy. In a contested sector two agents struggle to appropriate the maximum possible fraction of a contestable output. In an uncontested sector uncontested sector, they hold secure property rights over the production of some goods. Agents split their resource...

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Contagiuni, dar şi oportunităţi ratate – efecte economice ale „Primăverii Musulmane”

Alexandru, Georgescu - In: Revista OEconomica (2011) 02

This article outlines those economic losses and attempts to impress upon the reader the potential for further disruptions at a regional level. There is a wasted economic potential in the youthful and increasingly well educated populations of Muslim countries, confined to poverty and handouts...

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Autocratic rule in ethnically-diverse societies

Amegashie, J. Atsu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Richer and more educated citizens demand better governance than poorer citizens. They participate more in the political process, are more difficult to buy off, and tend to have the financial resources to support a revolt. An autocrat who is politically insecure may therefore not invest in...

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The Political Economy of Corruption: A Philippine Illustrationa

Roumasset, James - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2008

: Corruption, Philippines, kleptocracy JEL codes: H11, K42, O5 a This … corruption” or kleptocracy, including high level manipulation of policies and projects. We shall see that grand corruption is … Minister. 5 Thus, unlike a kleptocracy modeled along the lines of Brennan and Buchanan’s (1977) Leviathan, Marcos was …

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How corruption in government affects public welfare: A review of theory

Lambsdorff, Johann - 2001

The objectives of government are pivotal to understanding the diverse negative effects of corruption on public welfare. Corruption renders governments unable or unwilling to maximize welfare. In the first case, it distorts agents' decisions and limits the contractual space available to agents...

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How corruption in government affects public welfare: A review of theory

Lambsdorff, Johann - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2001

The objectives of government are pivotal to understanding the diverse negative effects of corruption on public welfare. Corruption renders governments unable or unwilling to maximize welfare. In the first case, it distorts agents decisions and limits the contractual space available to agents and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010980793