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Innovative Source of Development Finance for Africa : The Return of Stolen Funds

Adeolu, Adewole Musiliu - 2016

gap and breaking poverty traps in Africa. A simple model is used to show our elite preference for de facto power informs … power constitutes the clog in the wheel of Africa's economic development. The seizure of this stolen wealth and its … systematic return to Africa is one way of breaking elites' de facto power. Furthermore, we show how the development gap is …

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Does Infrastructure Alleviates Poverty in Developing Countries?

Seetanah, B.; Ramessur, S.; Rojid, S. - In: International Journal of Applied Econometrics and … 9 (2009) 2

Infrastructure has largely been ignored in the assessment of poverty in developing countries. This paper attempts to make some contribution in the establishing the ingredients to alleviate poverty by exploring the impact of infrastructure on the urban poor in sample of 20 developing countries,...

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Multi-level governance of large transport infrastructures: efficiency or transparency?

Sartori, Davide - Centre for Industrial Studies (CSIL) - 2008

The present paper analyses the Multi-level Governance issue for large transport infrastructures relevant at European level. The focus is put on the activities occurring before the infrastructure implementation, which are identified as the decision making-process. This is commonly a long and...

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ASPECTS REGARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL PROTECTION IN ROMANIA

PURDESCU, Iulian Denis - In: ECONOMY AND SOCIOLOGY: Theoretical and Scientifical Journal (2013) 3, pp. 143-149

In order to form a prosperous national social protection system we must know its evolution. Obviously, to elaborate an efficient policy on the development of the social protection system an important role lies in the practice study accumulated in the past. In the article the author reflects on...

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Misperceiving Inequality

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Treisman, Daniel - 2015

Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization and promote class conflict and revolution in...

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Is Transport Safety More Valuable in the Air?

Carlsson, Fredrik; Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Martinsson, … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2002

Using a contingent valuation survey, people’s willingness to pay for a given risk reduction is found to be much larger when traveling by air compared to by taxi. Follow-up questions revealed that an important reason for this discrepancy is that many experience a higher mental suffering from...

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Misperceiving inequality

Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; Treisman, Daniel - 2015

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Impact of infrastructure expenses in strategic sectors for Brazilian poverty

Marinho, Emerson Luis Lemos; Campelo, Guaracyane; … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 18 (2017) 2, pp. 244-259

This paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure investments in the reduction of poverty in Brazil, controlled through other determinants such as economic growth, income inequality, average schooling years, unemployment rate and state budgets from 1995 to 2011. A model for a dynamic panel data,...

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A Short 'Second Best' Narrative of the Ukrainian Economy (Una Breve 'Segunda Mejor Opción' De Narrativa De La Economía Ucraniana)

Soldatos, Gerasimos - 2018

English Abstract: This article maintains that in our second best world, neither corruption nor the informal sector and political instability can be held responsible for the moderate performance of the Ukrainian economy. Corruption in Ukraine appears to act as “grease in the wheels of the...

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When Institutions Fail : The Case of Underage Marriage in India

Goodwin, Michele - 2017

When do we know that the rule of law has failed or been corrupted? Who can we point to as corrupting legal order or the rule of law when most of the parties appear to be one-shotters? One shot players lack the ability to quickly master and more importantly conquer sophisticated legal labyrinths...

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