This dissertation consists of three chapters on human capital in China.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, privatisation has been widely adopted across the developing world and has reversed the previous trend towards the expansion of state enterprise. This thesis examines the establishment, operation and privatisation of the state enterprise sector in Zambia b…
1.1 Overview Many traits of economic agents are well studied and understood by psychologists that are yet to be captured by economic theory. This thesis, in the field of behavioral economics, is yet another attempt at unifying the different approaches of the two well-established…
This research examines the threat perceptions and different responses of states in dealing with common threats perceptions. Balancing strategies such as armament and alliance with other states are mainly the consequence of threats or perceived threats in states’ internal and ext…
Liberalization of West African cocoa markets, following structural adjustment reforms, resulted in the elimination of parastatal marketing boards to promote greater pass-though of world prices to farmers. Concerns about subsequent effects on farmgate prices, farmer income, and m…
This dissertation aims to explore political determinants of the magnitude and the pace of six dimensions of financial reforms in developing countries. The magnitude of financial reforms refers to the degree a country engages in a larger scale of financial reforms at one time, wh…
Democracy is in crisis around the world. Boosted by global phenomena such as globalization and the development of internet, along with a series of crises, which widened the gap between the elite and citizens, this trend was characterized by the rise of populism in both mature de…
This study combines the economic and the political transition literature in order to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the reform processes of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan from 1991–2003. Information from interviews conducted with economists from the financial institutions as w…
This document analyses economical convergence in Africa by using the real PIB per capita like measure of income per capita. The study considers all African countries, except Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Liberia, Libya, Mayotte, Reunion, Sao Tome and Principe and Somalia…
My dissertation addresses the following question: How does foreign direct investment (FDI) influence the economic institution building process in transition states? I argue that the voice of investors is substantial, but can be limited without domestic agents, who simultaneously…
The link between economic reform and health, particularly the health of children, has been the subject of recent policy debate. Although economic reform remains a major feature of African policy-making, there has been very little empirical research on the impact of this reform o…
In October 1992, the government of Ethiopia, backed by the IMF and the World Bank, implemented a structural adjustment and macroeconomic policy reform program. The objective of the program is to revitalize the economy by creating a market-oriented system. The dissertation invest…
Verifiable proof of a causational link between telecommunications and overall economic development in the developing world remains elusive. In large part, this is caused by characteristics inherent to the telecommunications field that are fundamentally at odds with the economic …
The Government of Senegal is attempting to liberalize the groundnut market. In the past, this market was highly regulated with government-set producer prices, groundnut oil processing mills owned by parastatals, and requirements that all groundnuts be sold to these quasi-governm…
“Little Manhattan,” the new international business and finance center of Istanbul, is the place where the dominant urbanization agenda, making Istanbul a world city, and the economic development agenda, financial liberalization, were strikingly articulated as two predominant dev…
This study is the first complete analysis of social upheaval in Yugoslavia in the 1980s, especially on the groundswell of organized labor resistance that emerged in resistance to rapid economic transformation. This study introduces a new data source on "events of labor unrest" (…
This dissertation is an ambitious project that assesses the role of total factor productivity, human capital, knowledge, ideas, and technology in the growth path of Egypt. The first and second chapters present the domestic and open macro variables of the Egyptian economy as nece…
Nigeria emerged from the colonial era in 1960 with great economic promise and potential. The country's economic situation was comparable to many East Asian countries, most notably Indonesia, in terms of population, income per capita, and natural resources. Nigeria discovered vas…
The question of the impact of privatizations on the process of democratization remains untouched in the political science literature. One of the best ways to study the linkages between privatizations and democratization is to analyze the changes in the group of society most affe…
The Asian economic crisis has reinforced the importance of efficient financial markets for sustained real investment and economic growth, yet there is still limited empirical research on the effects of the deregulation of financial markets on the firm's investment decisions. The…