Publications

Prospects for Village Self-Governance In China

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State and Unions in the Transformation of the Brazilian Countryside, 1964-1979

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In the early 1960s, the dramatic mobilization of rural wage laborers and small farmers placed the agrarian question at the top of the Brazilian political agenda. The question facing governing elites was how to modernize an archaic agrarian sector that was widely perceived as posing a major...

Peter P. Houtzager

The Democratic Developmental State: Politics and Institutional Design

The 1990s have witnessed the ascendance of a new orthodoxy which asserts that democracy and development are mutually reinforcing. This is in marked contrast to the dominant consensus that held sway for the previous two decades, which stated that developmental progress in poor societies was best...

Trust and Inter-firm Relations in Developing and Transition Economies

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The role of trust in facilitating economic growth has been highlighted in previous contributions to this journal. In order to take this debate forward, this article argues (1) that more attention needs to be given to the relationship between sanctions and trust, and (2) that it is worth...

John Humphrey

Hubert Schmitz

Aggregate Results of the Single Market Programme

Dirk Willenbockel

Mutual Aid and Self Help: Routes to Hoping and Coping

Global trade expansion and liberalisation: gender issues and impacts

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Marzia Fontana

The effects of monetary policy on the balance of payments in Fiji

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Marzia Fontana

Growth Effects of Anticipated Trade Liberalization and the Baldwin Multiplier

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According to Baldwin (1992)[Baldwin, R.E., 1992. Measurable dynamic gains from trade. Journal of Political Economy 100, 162–174] trade liberalization induces a medium-run investment-led growth process. This note points out that Baldwin's own model would actually predict a significant initial...

Dirk Willenbockel

NGOs and Voluntary Organisations: North and South Learning From Each Other

Popular versus Liberal Democracy in Nicaragua and Tanzania

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This article takes issue with those analyses of ‘developmental democracy’ which treat popular participation as a clamorous inconvenience to be managed in the interests of economic efficiency. Instead it asks what follows from prioritizing participation both as a defining feature of...

Robin Luckham

Corruption and Development: An Introduction

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