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The third problem is that, though important, "ideology" is not the only stake involved. Much of U.S. development theory has proved woefully wrong in assuming that political change will follow neatly on the heels of economic modernization; nonetheless, it is still accepted that the contest over political systems in the...
That sounded fine in Cairo, but it did not play very well in Jerusalem. The Israelis were particularly distrustful of Sadat's suggestion that the Egyptians should assume police powers in Gaza on a temporary basis. To the Israelis, this sounded as if the Egyptians were widening their demands...
The surge may prove to be only statistical. Productivity figures, Stokes concedes, "bounce around a lot." But even if the figures swing down again, U.S. industry could brandish a new study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on the relative competitiveness of 24 major industrial countries. It found...
Policymakers in Washington and other Western capitals are in as excruciating a dilemma as Amin. Do they offer aid to prop up a shaky regime ?which then might drop in the Russians' lap? Or let the government collapse?and risk a widening guerrilla war in an unstable region? Moscow...
The widening gap between state revenues and the demand for state funds raises two fundamental questions. First, our understanding of the dynamics of budget growth is clearly underdeveloped, attracting much concerned attention. Traditional economics emphasizes the use of government expenditures as countercyclical economic stimuli, but the actual history of government...