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Jain, Sanjay, Majumdar, Sumon and Mukand, Sharun W. (2014) Walk the line : conflict, state capacity and the political dynamics of reform. Working Paper. Coventry, UK: Department of Economics, University of Warwick. CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Volume 2013 (Number 156).
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Abstract
This paper develops a dynamic framework to analyze the political sustainability of economic reforms in developing countries. First, we demonstrate that economic reforms that are proceeding successfully may run into a political impasse, with the reform’s initial success having a negative impact on its political sustainability. Second, we demonstrate that greater state capacity to make compensatory transfers to those adversely affected by reform, need not always help the political sustainability of reform, but can also hinder it. Finally, we argue that in ethnically divided societies, economic reform may be completed not despite ethnic conflict, but because of it.
Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Economic development -- Developing countries, Economic development -- Political aspects, Ethnic conflict -- Political aspects | ||||||||
Series Name: | CAGE Online Working Paper Series | ||||||||
Publisher: | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | ||||||||
Place of Publication: | Coventry, UK | ||||||||
Official Date: | November 2014 | ||||||||
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Volume: | Volume 2013 | ||||||||
Number: | Number 156 | ||||||||
Number of Pages: | 40 | ||||||||
Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 July 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 July 2016 |
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