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India’s General Elections 2019: The potential electoral consequences of demonetisation
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In the campaign leading up to the Lok Sabha elections in spring 2014, one of the more important promises that Narendra Modi made was to ‘clean up’ the...

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Narendra Modi’s performance on the Indian economy: Five key policies assessed
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When Narendra Modi became India’s prime minister in spring 2014 the Indian economy was in the doldrums. There was a clear policy paralysis in India’s...

Working Paper
A short history of India's economy

This paper is a short history of the Indian economy since 1968. India today is a changed country from what it was half a century ago, when Myrdal published his Asian Drama. The stranglehold of low growth has been broken, its population below the...

Working Paper
Intergovernmental fiscal transfers and tactical political maneuverings

This paper examines the influence of political considerations on intergovernmental fiscal transfers in Ghana. The two-step system GMM approach was used to estimate transfers and elections data for 167 districts from 1994 to 2014. The analysis was...

Working Paper
How do voters respond to information on self-serving elite behaviour?

Does self-serving elite behaviour make citizens more politically active? This paper presents the results of a randomized field experiment where voters in Tanzania were given information about elite use of tax havens. Information provided in a neutral...

Book Chapter
Political economy and governance

Part of Book Extractive Industries

In the media
Vox article on the political hurdles facing a carbon tax — and how to overcome them

Based partially on the WIDER Working Paper by Jesse Jenkins and Valerie Karplus, David Roberts from the news website Vox discusses the complex relationship between carbon pricing and binding political constraints.

Project meeting
Political economy of food price policy

This was the third and final meeting of participants in the Political Economy of Food Price Policy project, which is jointly led by UNU-WIDER, Cornell University, and the University of Copenhagen and partially supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates...

10 July 2012 – 12 July 2012
Institute of Food and Resource Economics (FOI) at University of Copenhagen, Nørregade 10, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Workshop
Second project workshop of the political economy of food price policy

Collaborating Institutions in this project were Cornell University and the University of Copenhagen. Please refer to the research page for more information: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy.

24 February 2012 – 25 February 2012
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Menelik II Ave, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Workshop
The political economy of food price policy

Please refer to the The Political Economy of Food Price Policy project page for more information.

4 April 2011 – 5 April 2011
Institute of Food and Resource Economics (FOI) at University of Copenhagen, Nørregade 10, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Foreign aid and democracy in Africa

Theme: 2010-11

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The politics of group-based inequalities - measurement, implications, and possibilities for change

Theme: Inclusion

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The political economy of social protection systems

Theme: Inclusion

Working Paper
Trust as state capacity

This paper explores the link between trust in government, policy-making, and compliance. It focuses on a specific channel whereby citizens who are convinced that a policy is worthwhile are more motivated to comply with it. This in turn reduces the...

Journal Article
When the Lewisian dream sours

The COVID-19 pandemic has escalated processes of labour transition from industrial work to the informal economy, which have always characterized the life of the working poor. This study explores this kind of reverse transition, that is, when the...

Annual Lecture
The political economy of structural transformation
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