She had reservations about the term: she accepted that political economy and economic developments mattered, but merely argued that on their own they did not explain great historical changes, and that political events deserved greater emphasis.
It is troubling, too, that the new parliament will have the fewest Muslim members of any since 1952, while the ruling BJP has not a single Muslim MP among its cohort of 282; Muslims are reckoned to comprise at least 14% of the Indian population.But largely Mr Modi told the truth: the BJP's manifesto and Mr Modi's speeches emphasised economic and development matters.
Real change, Krekorian says, comes from the hard, often boring work of actually implementing those proposals and creating the institutions within City Hall that can carry on the work of economic development no matter who sits on the City Council or in the mayor's office.
Rather, what I want to say is that economic growth matters importantly, and it should be pursued as part of an employment-enhancing development strategy.
Instead, John Butera, who was appointed by LePage as his senior economic adviser to deal with economic development and job creation matters, had visited the state's Department of Labor "numerous times" before January 2011 and had, according to the document, "had considered the mural to be overwhelming and pro-labor and anti-business".
A long stream of academic literature has established that public funding towards research and development matters for economic growth because it relates to increases in innovation, productivity and the like.
He also has powers over cultural matters and economic development; in 2006 he acquired more clout over housing, planning, the environment, and learning and skills.
But the two -- along with Ms. Brazile, Roberto Ramirez, the Democratic Party chairman in the Bronx, and Eric Eve, Mr. Gore's New York campaign manager -- discussed several matters concerning economic development in heavily black areas, including access to media ownership, Gore aides said.
The seminal contributions of Williamson, North and Ostrom have served to mitigate opposition in the mainstream economics literature to the idea that institutions matter to economic development and that, more generally, they are a significant component in our understanding of how societies develop.
