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Bargain, Olivier; Vincent, Rose Camille; Caldeira, Emilie - 2024

Decentralization, championed by international institutions, has been one of the most prominent public sector reforms of the last decades, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. To date, few studies propose a quasi-experimental evaluation of its capacity to contribute to local development. We...

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The role of economic prosperity on informality in Africa : evidence of corruption thresholds from PSTR

Njoya, Loudi; Ngouhouo, Ibrahim; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2022

This paper is interested in explaining the causes of the simultaneous evolution between economic growth and informality … rate is above (below) a threshold of 1.3577, economic growth reduces (increases) informal economic sector. The corruption …, public and private agents to fight corruption, in view of decreasing the informal economic sector through economic growth. …

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Political Predation and Economic Development

Biais, Bruno; Bates, Robert H.; Azam, Jean-Paul - 2005

Economic growth occurs as resources are reallocated from the traditional sector to the more productive modern sector …

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Political competition and economic growth : a nonlinear relationship?

Man, Georg - In: European journal of political economy 36 (2014), pp. 287-302

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Conférence présidentielle : revisiting the debate on inequality and economic development

Bourguignon, François - In: Revue d'économie politique 125 (2015) 5, pp. 633-663

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Increasing the Economic Development Benefits of Higher Education in Michigan

Bartik, Timothy J. - 2004

This paper considers how a state such as Michigan can increase the economic development benefits of higher education. Research evidence suggests that higher education increases local economic development principally by increasing the quality of the local workforce, and secondarily by increasing...

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Resource-Richness and Economic Growth in Contemporary U.S

Jaimes, Richard - 2018

Policy Act of 2005. We also document the resource boom indirect effects on other growth-enhancing activities, particularly …

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Is There a Tradeoff between Economic Development Incentives and Economic Freedom?

Dove, John A. - 2018

incentives and business formation, employment, and economic growth has been studied in detail. This paper extends this literature …

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A Comment on Georgia Department of Economic Development Report : ‘The Economic Impact of the Film Industry in Georgia’

Bradbury, John Charles - 2020

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Economic Development Reduces Tolerance for Inequality : A Comparative Analysis of 30 Nations

Kelley, Jonathan; Evans, M. D. R. - 2008

Do conceptions of just rewards vary with economic development? To investigate this question we use the 1999-2000 "Inequality-III" round of the International Social Science Project together with other data in the World Inequality Study. There are 30 countries and 19 568 individual respondents in...

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