Existing Institutions (existing + institution)

Distribution by Scientific Domains


Selected Abstracts


Market Liberalisation, Vertical Integration and Price Behaviour in Tanzania's Coffee Auction

DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW, Issue 2 2001
Anna A. Temu
Whether market liberalisation can promote agricultural development in Africa depends on how well existing institutions can facilitate trade by private agents. This article assesses the performance of the Tanzania coffee marketing system after liberalisation and the emergence of private, vertically integrated exporters (VIEs). Increasing producer prices, declining marketing margins, and the continued provision of a useful auction for coffee that is delivered by traders who are not VIEs all suggest a degree of success for liberalisation. The presence of VIEs seems to have provided investment to reduce marketing costs, whilst a sufficient number of competing firms has limited non-competitive behaviour in the market for coffee that is traded at the auction by non-VIEs. [source]


How Crisis Shapes Change: New Perspectives on China's Political Economy during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937,19451

HISTORY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 4 2007
Morris L. Bian
This article surveys the recent literature on China's political economy during the Sino-Japanese War (1937,45). This literature reveals that the war-triggered sustained systemic crisis brought about the most intensive Nationalist state-building efforts, the danwei designation of political, economic, and administrative organizations, the expansion of state-owned industries and the decline of the private sector, the creation of a state enterprise system, and the formation of an ideology of developmental state. This literature suggests that the elements of post-1949 institutional and structural arrangements and ideological systems developed well before 1949. Therefore, the critical issue is no longer that of establishing institutional, structural, and ideological continuity between the Nationalist and Communist eras; instead, it rests in understanding why and how the Chinese Communists kept intact, built on, and expanded existing institutions, structures, and ideologies in certain key areas of political, economic, and administrative life. [source]


Measuring the spillover effects: Some Chinese evidence,

PAPERS IN REGIONAL SCIENCE, Issue 1 2000
Long Gen Ying
Chinese space economy; core-periphery analysis; local Moran; spillover effects Abstract. Based on recently developed methods of exploratory spatial data analysis, this article seeks to prove the desired spread effects in the Chinese space economy from a core-periphery perspective. Recently developed methods of exploratory spatial data analysis provide new insights on the spatial pattern of the interaction of Chinese provincial output growth rates over the 1978,1994 period. Findings indicate that the economic spillover effects are most evident at the first order of province contiguity from Guangdong, where the two coastal provinces of Hainan and Guangxi are identified with a significant spread pattern, while non-coastal provinces Hunan and Jiangxi are observed with a strong polarization pattern. A further analysis indicates that the state preferential policies favoring the coastal region are the fundamental force in determining the direction of spread-polarization processes in the Chinese space economy. This finding confirms Friedmann's hypothesis on spatial interaction, namely, that the spread process is a successful diffusion of the core's existing institutions into the periphery. [source]


Southeast Asia: A Community of Diversity

POLITICS & POLICY, Issue 1 2007
Damien Kingsbury
The region known as the Southeast provides the basis for a broad political community characterized by cultural and ethnic diversity, disparities in economic performance, and differences in regime and constitutional foundations. In recent years, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) group of nations has made strides toward building a community based on respect for these differences. Despite a growing acceptance for democratic processes and human rights, the influence of these values over existing institutions and state behavior remains incomplete. The future development of the ASEAN region, and the nations that comprise it, is likely to be based on the strength and character of the relationships these states forge with one another and with more powerful external actors. [source]