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Testing
Bergbauer, Annika B.; Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
We investigate the achievement impact of alternative uses of student assessments. Our dataset covers over 2 million students in 59 countries observed over 6 waves in the international PISA test 2000-2015. Our empirical model exploits the country panel dimension to investigate assessment reforms...
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How the G7 reviews its work on development: A case study of internal accountability
Fischer, Roger A. - 2020
The G7 practices forms of external accountability to answer for its behaviour to the outside world and internal … accountability to steer the implementation of what it has decided. To follow up on its development-related commitments, it has set up … discontinuous and because its accountability process is currently not targeted at channelling feedback from implementation …
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China's capacities for mitigating climate change
Richerzhagen, Carmen; Scholz, Imme - 2007
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The potential of pro-market activism as a tool for making finance work for Africa: a political economy perspective
Dafe, Florence - 2011
a particular country has good enough governance to assume a more activist role in financial sector development. …
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The politics of central banking and implications for regulatory reform in sub-Saharan Africa: the cases of Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda
Dafe, Florence - 2012
As regulators, central banks can play a stabilising role, using prudential regulation to ensure financial system stability, and a transformative role, using regulation to promote financial system development and so encourage financial deepening and inclusion. While there are strong arguments for...
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State fragility: towards a multi-dimensional empirical typology
Grävingholt, Jörn; Ziaja, Sebastian; Kreibaum, Merle - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that, empirically, state fragility – con­ceptualised as a multi-dimensional phenomenon along the categories of authority, capacity and legitimacy – comes in several distinct configurations, yet that the number of such configurations is rather...
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Rent management and policy learning in green technology development: the case of solar energy in India
Altenburg, Tilman; Engelmeier, Tobias - 2012
To avoid irreversible damage to global ecosystems, new “green” technologies are needed. Some of those are still far from commercial maturity. In such cases, governments may create temporary rents to make investments “artificially” attractive. The creation of such rents, however, involves...
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Results-Based Aid (RBA): new aid approaches, limitations and the application to promote good governance
Klingebiel, Stephan - 2012
The debate on results-based aid (RBA) differs from debates so far in as much as in practice, aid has been mainly inputs and progress-oriented. RBA aims to identify outputs or outcomes that can be measured and quantified, i.e. results that can be directly linked to development activities. The key...
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Revenue structures and the question of who pays taxes: understanding the conditions under which elites pay taxes in developing countries
von Schiller, Armin - 2012
Revenue structures vary strongly among developing countries. Most approaches to tax performance fail to give insights into this puzzle. I argue that much of the answer lies in the political dimension and highlight the willingness of elites to pay taxes as the most crucial factor. In contrast to...
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