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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. Journal of Development Economics, Volume 111 . pp. 150-166. doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2014.02.004 ISSN 0304-3878.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2014.02.004
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: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions | ||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Developing countries -- Politics and government, Economic policy , Cultural pluralism -- Economic aspects | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Development Economics | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0304-3878 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | November 2014 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | Volume 111 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 150-166 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2014.02.004 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 January 2018 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 January 2018 |
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