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The Dangers Of Diversity: Ethnic Fractionalization And The Rule Of Law, Michael Touchton
The Dangers Of Diversity: Ethnic Fractionalization And The Rule Of Law, Michael Touchton
Michael Touchton
Research linking ethnic cleavages to economic underdevelopment is a hallmark of recent efforts to explain economic growth. Similarly, the rule of law as a credible commitment to property rights and contract enforcement is also identified with economic development. Rather than treating these factors as rival explanations for economic development around the world, I propose the rule of law as the causal mechanism through which ethnic fractionalization (EF) influences growth in many countries. I argue ethnic diversity negatively impacts the rule of law due to the prevalence of ethnically-based patronage networks in developing countries. Public officials, I argue, face greater incentives …
Institutionalizing Democracy In Africa: A Comment On The African Charter On Democracy, Elections And Governance, Patrick J. Glen
Institutionalizing Democracy In Africa: A Comment On The African Charter On Democracy, Elections And Governance, Patrick J. Glen
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article provides an exegesis of the recently entered-into-force African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance. Democracy has a decidedly mixed history in Africa and, despite a concerted effort by the African Union (AU), it has made only halting inroads in those states that are nondemocratic or struggling to consolidate democracy. That may change as more states ratify and implement the Charter, a comprehensive regional attempt to promote, protect, and consolidate democracy that entered into force in February 2012. This Charter, the culmination of two decades of African thinking on how democracy should develop on the continent, represents the AU’s …
Economic Development At The Cost Of Human Rights: China Nonferrous Metal Industry In Zambia, Brian Chama
Economic Development At The Cost Of Human Rights: China Nonferrous Metal Industry In Zambia, Brian Chama
Publications and Scholarship
The international human rights system is primarily based on the relationship between the state and its citizens. The overarching question is where the responsibility for human rights does and should lie in a world where the movement of human beings, goods, and capital are increasingly transnational in scope. The amount of responsibility that powerful actors like international corporations should have for protecting human rights is unclear. How this responsibility should be understood in relation to the responsibility of the state to protect its own people from human rights violations and also pursue strategies to hold international corporations accountable is also …
What Caused Enron? A Capsule Social And Economic History Of The 1990s, John C. Coffee Jr.
What Caused Enron? A Capsule Social And Economic History Of The 1990s, John C. Coffee Jr.
Faculty Scholarship
The sudden explosion of corporate accounting scandals and related financial irregularities that burst over the financial markets between late 2001 and the first half of 2002 e.g., Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, and others-raises an obvious question: why now? What explains the sudden concentration of financial scandals at this moment in time? Much commentary has rounded up the usual suspects and blamed the scandals on a decline in business morality, “infectious greed,” and similar subjective trends that cannot be reliably measured.
China And The Gatt Agreement On Government Procurement, John Linarelli
China And The Gatt Agreement On Government Procurement, John Linarelli
Scholarly Works
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The North-South Dialogue, Thomas Ehrlich
The North-South Dialogue, Thomas Ehrlich
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Exchange Control, Liberalization, And Economic Development, Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Anne O. Krueger
Exchange Control, Liberalization, And Economic Development, Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Anne O. Krueger
Faculty Scholarship
This paper highlights results of the National Bureau of Economic Research's (NBER) research project on exchange control, liberalization and economic development from 1970-1973. Initial adoption of exchange controls was generally an ad hoc response to external events. The optimal resource allocation dictum – that the marginal cost of earning foreign exchange should be equated with the marginal cost of saving foreign exchange – was generally abandoned in favor of saving foreign exchange at all costs. An export-oriented development strategy generally entails relatively greater use of indirect, rather than direct, interventions. There is considerable evidence from the individual country studies that …
Book Review. The Effectiveness Of International Decisions And Foreign Development Lending -- Legal Aspects, A. A. Fatouros
Book Review. The Effectiveness Of International Decisions And Foreign Development Lending -- Legal Aspects, A. A. Fatouros
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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The Computer And The Mud Hut: Notes On Multinational Enterprise In Developing Countries, A. A. Fatouros
The Computer And The Mud Hut: Notes On Multinational Enterprise In Developing Countries, A. A. Fatouros
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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An International Code To Protect Private Investment -- Proposals And Perspectives, A. A. Fatouros
An International Code To Protect Private Investment -- Proposals And Perspectives, A. A. Fatouros
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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