Political Agency and the State in Development
In: Forum for development studies: journal of Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Norwegian Association for Development, Volume 37, Issue 1, p. 3-6
ISSN: 1891-1765
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In: Forum for development studies: journal of Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Norwegian Association for Development, Volume 37, Issue 1, p. 3-6
ISSN: 1891-1765
In: Latin American perspectives: a journal on capitalism and socialism, Volume 6, p. 5-29
ISSN: 0094-582X
In: Latin American perspectives: a journal on capitalism and socialism, Volume 6, Issue 3, p. 5-29
ISSN: 0094-582X
World Affairs Online
In: Journal of Asian and African studies: JAAS, Volume 4, Issue 4, p. 300-314
ISSN: 1745-2538
In: Environmental policy and law: the journal for decision-makers, Volume 25, Issue 1-2, p. 77
ISSN: 0378-777X
In: Routledge Studies on China in Transition Ser. v.17
This edited volume describes the intellectual world that developed in China in the last decade of the twentieth century. How, as China's economy changed from a centrally planned to a market one, and as China opened up to the outside world and was influenced by the outside world, Chinese intellectual activity became more wide-ranging, more independent, more professionalized and more commercially oriented than ever before. The future impact of this activity on Chinese civil society is discussed in the last chapter.
In: FP, Issue 34, p. 3-34
ISSN: 0015-7228
World Affairs Online
In: Migration and development, Volume 1, Issue 2, p. 229-243
ISSN: 2163-2332
In: Hebron University Conference on Global Education, October, 2013
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 8735
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In: IZA Journal of development and migration, Volume 12, Issue 1
ISSN: 2520-1786
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Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we characterize the evolution of gender gaps in low- and middle-income countries between 1960 and 2010. We document five facts. First, women are more educated today than 50 years ago in every country in the world. Second, they remain less educated than men in the vast majority of countries. Third, in many countries with low levels of education for both men and women in 1960, gender gaps widened as more boys went to school, then narrowed as girls enrolled; thus, gender gaps got worse before they got better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large, current gender gaps in educational attainment have low levels of male educational attainment, and many also perform poorly on other measures of development such as life expectancy and GDP per capita. Fifth, in the youngest cohorts, women have more education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most countries, the empirical evidence does not support the hypothesis that reducing the gender gap in schooling consistently leads to smaller gender gaps in labor force participation.
In: The journal of economic history, Volume 47, Issue 2, p. 391-403
ISSN: 1471-6372
The U.S. Constitution, by taking away the power of the states to issue paper money, removed a major source of flexibility in state public finance. In their search for new sources of revenue and fiscal flexibility, the states discovered that the banks they chartered could fill the gap. Investment earnings and tax revenues derived from banks soon became major elements of state public finance. We discuss the nature of these early business-government relationships and provide the first systematic assessment of their relative importance in state finance.
In: The Indian journal of political science, Volume 53, Issue 1, p. 102
ISSN: 0019-5510
In: Australian quarterly: AQ, Volume 60, Issue 1, p. 27
ISSN: 0005-0091, 1443-3605
In: Routledge studies in North American politics, 4
Failed states are a huge problem in international relations, threatening world order in a number of ways. Conflicts in failed states often spill unto neighbouring states, failed states make for unreliable partners in the resolution of global social problems such as poverty and AIDS, and failed states magnify the effects of natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes. In response to the multiple threats posed by failed states, working states, sometimes acting alone sometimes in concert with others, have undertaken military operations, often under the rubric of humanitarian intervention. This book is a historical study of state failure, underdevelopment and foreign intervention in light of the Haitian experience with all three. Its main thesis is that state failure has been a recurring feature of Haitian political life for much of the country's history, and this inability of the Haitians to craft a viable political order is at the heart of Haitian poverty and underdevelopment. Haitian state-making failure is underwritten by a complex array of deleterious local and external institutions, as well as natural constraints, including class, lack of elite cohesion, geography, population growth, the social origins of the Haitian polity, imperialism, and technology.