Essays about: "opportunistic political cycles"
Found 3 essays containing the words opportunistic political cycles.
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1. Election Cycles and Microfinance in the Indian States : Political Pressures, Opportunistic Election Cycles and Political Uncertainty Cycles: What Does It Do for the Indian Microfinance Sector?
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : In India, election cycles have repeatedly been reported to sway the microfinance sector. Meanwhile, the sector is recognized as an important poverty fighting tool; both the largely privately funded MFI system and the largely publicly funded SHG system. READ MORE
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2. Political budget cycles under single party- and coalition governments How the composition of local governments affects opportunistic fiscal policy
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : This paper examines the empirical relationship between political budget cycles (PBCs) and two types of governments; single party- and coalition governments. Most PBC models implicitly assume that governments have unitary preferences and unconstrained control over fiscal policy, as is the case under single-party governments. READ MORE
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3. Opportunistic Political Cycles in Belarus: An explanation to why dictatorship works
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : The study of the prevalence of dictatorial regimes has long been at the forefront of political science, but it is only recently that it has risen to prominence also within economic research. To date, the main economic explanations of dictatorship center on the distributions of economic rents across groups, i.e. from an autocrat to a societal elite. READ MORE
