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The state has played a major role in the most important developmental successes. This paper discusses the advances in our understanding of the role of the state in the developmental process over the past thirty years, and the contribution to those advances played by changes in economics, changes...
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Myrdal did not cover China in his Asian Drama. If he did, he would have been most likely pessimistic about China, as he was about other Asian countries in his book. However, China has achieved miraculous growth since the transition from a planned economy to a market economy at the end of 1978....
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This paper examines the macroeconomic policies and outcomes experienced by the Latin American economies during the period 1990-2010. Macroeconomic policies refer to exchange rates, monetary and aggregate fiscal policies, while macroeconomic outcomes, on the other hand, refer to the patterns of...
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Since the 1970s, Chile has exhibited a highly skewed income distribution accompanied with strong fluctuations over time. Although income distribution worsened notably in the 1970s-80s, a significant improvement was recorded in the first half of the 1990s, resulting from better economic and...
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We investigate the relevance of beta (β, absolute and conditional) and sigma (σ) convergence in the economies of the Common Monetary Area of Southern Africa and in the provinces of the Republic of South Africa using panel data, allowing an understanding of growth and inequality in the region....
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. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …
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the civil war in the early 1990s, the decentralization process began in Mozambique. Different research developed in recent … years shows that, as is the case in other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the impact of the decentralization reforms on the … explained? Based on three important reforms in the decentralization process in Mozambique, namely the '7 million …
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In this paper we use the new Government Revenue Dataset to analyse fiscal decentralization. We find that developed … fiscally decentralized regions. In our econometric analysis, we examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization and … the shadow economy. We hypothesize that decentralization can negatively or positively affect the size of the shadow …
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investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of local public goods and services delivery by MMDAs. Using … study. The results with regard to our two indicators of fiscal decentralization indicate that fiscal autonomy proxied by …
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Indonesia went through a process of fiscal decentralization in 2001 involving the devolution of several policymaking … dataset of local governments for 1996 and 2004-05 to estimate the effect of the decentralization of minimum-wage setting in …
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