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Central Banks as Agents of Economic Development

Epstein, Gerald A. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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Stranger than Fiction? Understanding Institutional Changes and Economic Development

Chang, Ha-Joon - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

functional multiplicity, the importance of informal institutions, unintended consequences, and intended 'perversion' of … institutions all imply that the orthodox recipe of importing 'best practice' formal institutions does not work. While denying the … existence of universal formulas, the volume distills some general principles of institutions building from theoretical …

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Development through Globalization?

Nayyar, Deepak - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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Reconstruction from Breakdown in Northeastern India: Building State Capability

Hassan, M. Sajjad - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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Aid, environment, and climate change in Africa: The case of Senegal

Ngaido, Tidiane - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

The paper reviews the dynamics of the financing baseed its analysis on the rich dataset of AidData ranging over 1993 …

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Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation

Pritchett, Lant; Woolcock, Michael; Andrews, Matt - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

In many nations today the state has little capability to carry out even basic functions like security, policing, regulation or core service delivery. Enhancing this capability, especially in fragile states, is a long-term task. Countries like Haiti or Lib

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How Does Colonial Origin Matter for Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Agbor, Julius A. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

This paper investigates some of the existing hypotheses regarding the transmission of different colonial legacies to modern day economic growth. The fact that different colonial strategies were pursued by different colonizers in various territories suggests possible ramifications for current...

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The structural anatomy and institutional architecture of inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Thorbecke, Erik - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

The distinct features of inclusive growth within the context of sub-Saharan Africa are identified. The anatomy of growth is analysed by exploring the interrelationship among growth, inequality, and poverty. The present growth spell appears to have been re

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Capacity development for the transformation of Africa

Leautier, Frannie A. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Countries need capacity for a variety of reasons, including sustaining economic growth, generating jobs, reducing poverty, effectively managing development programmes, and transforming societies and economies. A lot of effort has been expended to develop

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Can the context mediate macro-policy outcomes? Contextual differences in the returns to Bolsa Familia in Brazil

von Jacobi, Nadia - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Local institutional and structural (meso) factors can play a role in mediating the returns to a macro-social policy. I focus on the Brazilian cash-transfer-programme Bolsa Familia and check how contextual features influence the returns to transfers. Build

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