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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Weak institutions"”.
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Essays in informal finance and market design under weak institutions
1. Keeping the Little Guy Down: A Debt Trap for Informal Lending -- 2. Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design In The Field -- 3. Voluntary Market Design: Dominant Individual Rationality.
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Resource-Induced Coping Heuristics and Organizational Ambidexterity in Context of Weak Institutions and Underdeveloped Markets
… and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in weak institutions and underdeveloped markets by focusing on three issues. First, drawing from the conservation of resources theory as a theoretical lens, this study explores the relationship between owner-managers’ resource-induced coping heuristics …
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The Mozambique legislature in comparative perspective : legislative development, performance and legitimacy
One-party Mozambican assemblies were weak institutions limited to ratifying executive decisions. However their multiparty successors are increasingly becoming institutions that matter in politics assigned with responsibilities of law-making, oversight, representation and constituency service. …
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Expanding transportation planning capacity in cities of the global South : public-private collaboration and conflict in Chile and Mexico
… of cities limited by scarce fiscal resources and weak institutions to enhance their transportation planning and regulatory capacities so as to provide the public with cleaner, safer, efficient, and reliable public transit alternatives? Such aims are particularly challenging for cities of the …
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Essays on international trade and institutions
… in the intersection of International Trade and Institutions. The first essay looks at the effect of trade opening on the efficiency of institutions. I argue that part of the reason why some developing economies have not experienced a boost in economic performance despite increasing trade …
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THE EFFECTS OF REAL EXCHANGE RATE UNDERVALUATIONS UPON GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
… on three issues. Rodrik (2008) claims that weak institutions hurt the development of the tradable sector more than that of the nontradable sector and that undervaluation can foster growth by diminishing the distortion created by weak institutions between the two sectors. Using the …
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Intersecting Issues of the Kashmir Earthquake: Risk reduction, vulnerability and the erosion of seismic culture
… struggles which manifest themselves as wars and weak institutions, increased dependence on wage labor and the global economy which leads to the out-migration of men, and rapidly expanding population pressure which leads to urban growth and forces marginalized populations into inappropriate living …
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Intersecting Issues of the Kashmir Earthquake: Risk reduction, vulnerability and the erosion of seismic culture
… struggles which manifest themselves as wars and weak institutions, increased dependence on wage labor and the global economy which leads to the out-migration of men, and rapidly expanding population pressure which leads to urban growth and forces marginalized populations into inappropriate living …
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Essays on economic crises and institutions
… pursuing poor macroeconomic policies also have weak "institutions," including political institutions that do not constrain politicians and political elites, ineffective enforcement of property rights for investors, widespread corruption, and a high degree of political instability. Two papers in …
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Ethical leadership in the Limpopo Provincial Public Service of South Africa: an imperative for good governance
… transgression within the province’s public institutions. The reports on fraud and corruption scandals ranges from conflict of interests which manifest itself through payment of ghost workers, tardiness, weak institutions, lack of accountability and honesty by senior and subordinate public …
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Essays on institutional evolution and economic development: evidence from Nigeria
The important role of institutions is relatively agreed on within the growth literature, with most empirical evidence pointing towards a positive influence of institutions on economic growth. However, empirical analysis of the institutions and growth nexus have faced a few problems, which include: …
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Why is transparency not enough to address the institutions curse? A case study of Nigeria’s implementation of the EITI
… determines how resource rents are managed. Where institutions are weak and resource rents are not productively managed, this is referred to as the institutions curse to emphasize the intermediate relationship between natural resources and underdevelopment via institutional quality. The …
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THE WEST AFRICA-LATIN AMERICA DRUG TRAFFICKING EPIDEMIC; AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
… instability because they do not have strong institutions to deal with the infestation. In other words, the infiltration of the region by Europe-bound illicit drugs from Latin America, coupled with the weak institutions in most of the region's sixteen countries, will result in sustained …
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Energy resilience on a local level : inclusive planning for disaster
… in Puerto Rico in particular revealed that weak institutions, poor financial management, and lack of citizen participation combined to create a system that did not perform as needed for its main client, the electricity customer. By closely studying the factors which make a system "resilient" …
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Quality Incentives and the Development of High-value Agrifood Markets: Ecuador's Cacao Marketing Chain
… power but found that transaction costs and weak institutions presented significant constraints to the transmission of quality incentives. Chapter 4 examines the determinants of farmers' market channel choice and the prices that they receive. In addition to determinants that are commonly …
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Enclaves, legacies and prospects for sustained development in mineral-rich Africa
… For over four decades, the International Finance Institutions (IFIs) have promoted export-led resource extraction as a catalyst for economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. But in Africa, the reforms ushered in by the IFIs, despite facilitating unprecedented increases in …
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Post-privatisation problems in the Nigerian electricity sector : the roles of sector-specific regulation and antitrust law
… suffers from corruption, regulatory capture, weak institutions of governance, slow development of the renewable energy market and anticompetitive practices by private electricity companies. <br/><br/>The study assesses the role of SSR and an interventionist antitrust law in improving the …
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Toward Understanding the Nature of Leadership in Alleviating State Fragility
… fragile states are characterized by violence, weak institutions and shattered economies. Not only do they pose a challenge to regional security, they often become the breeding grounds for terrorism.</p> <p>Donor agencies pour billions of dollars annually into these countries - through policy …
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Essays on the political economy of development in Nigeria
… in resource-abundant countries with relatively weak institutions. The second essay exploits climatic data to study how resource inequality between ethnic groups affects the risk of violent conflicts within Nigeria. The main results show that a one standard deviation change in between-group …
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Host-country risk, corporate political strategies and the subsidiary performance of South African multinationals in wider Africa
… through which they affect performance within weak institutional environments. Coupled with the paucity of research in weak institutional environments, is an absence of literature exploring the influence of informational, financial and constituency building relational political strategies on …
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