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Problem-driven political economy analysis holds considerable promise to help development practitioners identify what policies and strategies are most likely to succeed in addressing difficult and persistent development challenges. This volume is the result of a systematic effort to take stock of...
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This paper studies the resilience of public policies that governments design for catalyzing economic development. This property depends on the extent to which behavioral heuristics and spillover effects allow policymakers to attain their original goals when a particular policy cannot be funded...
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Politics and the political economy matter for whether and how reforms happen in developing as well as in developed countries. The World Bank as an institution and its individual country and task teams has been grappling with this issue for many years. The good practice framework described here...
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This paper was prepared for a symposium about Erwin Dekker’s (2021) recent biography of the Dutch economist Jan Tinbergen, with attention to Tinbergen’s work as a development economist in the post-war era. Tinbergen’s “uniqueness” among other development economists is discussed, as...
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State and market failures but failed to provide a unified theory, the former has left the challenging concern of how …-run respectively. While the paper provides a unified theory by reconciling the WC and the BM to complement the NSE, it at the same time … reconciling the WC with the BM, the study contributes at the same to macroeconomic NSE literature of unifying a development theory …
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This paper investigates the governance climate and governance perception of Bangladesh in absolute and in comparison with other countries in the South Asian region of the world. An in-depth analysis and evaluation of the political economy of Bangladesh since in some cases 1996 and in most other...
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Public policy reforms are multifaceted and important for debates and discussion. In India, the first administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) and the second ARC pointed directions for reforms of the public systems at the structural level. Moreover, the new economic policy and the sixth central...
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This review evaluates the role of the state in development, offering a new framework for understanding what capabilities states need to overcome different types of market failures. This framework is employed to understand the successes and failures of state-led development in Malaysia. The...
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