Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships

By Robert Higges. 2001

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• Jobs for Shared Prosperity: Time for Action in the Middle East and North Africa (2013, background): “Many, including Keefer (2007), suggest that the lack of accountability mechanisms among rent-seeking elites in MENA led to stagnation in the private sector in the region (Olsen 2000).”
• IQ and the Wealth of Nations (2004, background): “He concludes that “the great differences in the wealth of nations are mainly due to differences in the quality of their institutions and economic policies” (Olson, 1996, p. 19; see also Olson, 2000).”
• Is Development Path Dependent or Political? A Reinterpretation of Mineral-Dependent Development in Botswana (2009, background): “In the absence of highly valuable natural resources, the imperative of accessing a broad tax base drives the development of state structures that extend throughout the territory (Tilly, 1975; Levi, 1988; Olson, 2000).”
• Good governance, development theory, and aid policy: Risks and challenges of e-government in Jordan (2005, background): “For example, Russia’s transition from a planning to a market economy at the beginning of the 1990s failed because the government lacked the credibility over the privatization rights that were awarded to the Russian productive groups (Olsen, 1999).”
• Would autocracies promote autocracy? A political economy perspective on regime-type export in regional neighbourhoods (2010, background): “Based on the works of Wintrobe (1990, 1998), Olson (1965, 1993, 2000) and others, major progress has been made in recent years in explaining the contrasting features of democracy and autocracy with the help of such frameworks (Bueno de Mesquita et al. 2003, Acemoglu and Robinson 2006).”