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- Berglund, Sten, 1947-, et al.
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Concluding remarks
- 2013. - 3
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Ingår i: The handbook of political change in Eastern Europe. - Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 978 0 85793 537 3 - 978 1 78254 588 0 - 0857935372 ; , s. 823-830, s. 239-248
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Baskaran, Thushyanthan, 1980, et al.
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Fiscal Capacity and Government Accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 2011
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Historical evidence from the developed world suggests that the expansion of the mod- ern states’ fiscal capacity (i. e. its ability to tax citizens) eventually led to more democratic and less corrupt governments. Since sub-Saharan African countries are currently in a pro- cess of state building, we study whether a positive effect of fiscal capacity on government accountability prevails in contemporaneous sub-Saharan Africa, too. We conduct the em- pirical analysis with data covering 23 African countries over the 1960-2008 period. The results suggest that fiscal capacity increases government accountability in sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Baskaran, Thushyanthan, 1980, et al.
(författare)
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Fiscal Capacity and the Quality of Government in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 2013
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Ingår i: World Development. - : Elsevier BV. - 0305-750X .- 1873-5991. ; 45, s. 92-107
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Historical evidence from the industrialized world suggests that the expansion of the modern state’s capacity to tax eventually led to more democratic and less corrupt governments. Using a dataset that covers 31 sub-Saharan African countries over the 1990–2005 period, we study whether the positive effect of fiscal capacity on the quality of government prevails in contemporaneous sub-Saharan Africa as well. The results provide consistent evidence that within sub-Saharan Africa, fiscal capacity decreases corruption and increases democracy.
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- Baskaran, Thushyanthan, 1980, et al.
(författare)
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Political decentralisation and the effectiveness of aid
- 2013
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Ingår i: Globalization and Development. Rethinking interventions and governance. - Abingdon (UK) and New York : Routledge. - 9780415635684 ; , s. 43-72
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947, et al.
(författare)
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African Firms in the Global Economy
- 2010
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Ingår i: Review of Market Integration. ; 2:2 & 3, s. 229-253
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947, et al.
(författare)
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Behåll budgetstödet, Carlsson
- 2012
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Ingår i: Svenska Dagbladet. - 1101-2412. ; :17 mars 2012
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947
(författare)
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Comparative Advantage and African Development
- 2012
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Ingår i: The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa (eds.: E. Aryeetey, S. Devarajan, R. Kanubr and L. Kasekende). - Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press. - 9780199575978 ; , s. 166-173
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947
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Dimensions of African inequality
- 2014
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that determine inequality change, focusing on factor accumulation and structural change. Next it considers the relationship between inequality and growth, the role of agriculture in the development process, the relationships between ethnicity and social stratification and governance, and external influences on inequality. The paper concludes with some comments on what policy interventions can do to reduce inequality.
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- Bigsten, Arne, 1947, et al.
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Globalisation and Inter-occupational Inequality: Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries
- 2014
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Ingår i: The World Economy. - 0378-5920 .- 1467-9701. ; 37:3, s. 501-510
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How does globalisation affect inter-occupational wage inequality within countries? This paper examines this by focusing on two dimensions of globalisation: openness to trade and openness to capital flows, using a relatively new data set on occupational wages. Estimates from a dynamic model for 15 OECD countries spanning the period 1983–2003 suggest that increased openness increases occupational wage inequality in poorer OECD countries as predicted by the Heckscher–Ohlin–Samuelson model, but for the more advanced OECD countries, we find no significant effect. The absence of the expected result for the latter category can be due to a rapid increase in the supply of skilled labour, to outsourcing of skilled jobs or because changes in the trade flows are too small to have any significant effect in those countries.
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