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This study investigates women's individual and collective responses to the processes of structural adjustment in Nigeria. Structural adjustment, or SAP, is the package of macro economic conditionalities imposed on African economies in crisis by the International Monetary Fund an…

Fueled by the successful introduction of the Euro in 1999, monetary integration has become an increasingly important phenomenon within the modern global economic era. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is no exception. While the six countries of the GCC, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Q…

This research emerged from the belief that merely economic explanations of rent seeking were too narrow and an interdisciplinary approach was needed to understand historical structural factors that contribute to particularistic exchanges. Rent-seeking and particularistic ties ar…

What explains the variation in industrialization strategies across countries? In this thesis paper, I explore the influence of the business environment and economic elites in the varieties of industrial policy. I theorize that differences in how firms are integrated into an econ…

DFI contributes enormously to world development. Yet, very few studies measure the impact of DFI inflows on the aggregate economy. On the other hand, developing countries have undertaken extensive liberalization programs in order to effect structural change and attract DFI but l…