'Leadership' is not a common topic for research in international development. In recent years, however, prominent … studies like the 2008 Growth Commission Report noted the importance of leadership in development. This and other studies … focused on individual leaders - or heroes - when examining 'who leads development'. The current article asks if heroes really …

Recent years have seen a proliferation of ‘composite indicators’ or ‘indexes’ of governance. Such measures can be … useful tools for analysing governance, making public policy, building scientific knowledge, and even influencing ruling … a framework of ten questions to help users and producers of governance indexes to evaluate them and consider key …

development policy. This paper focuses on a core topic in development policy: governance. It aims to address two key questions: (1 …In recent years, randomized controlled trials have become increasingly popular in the social sciences. In development …) 'what have the main contributions of randomized controlled trials been to the study of governance?' and (2) 'what could be …

recently been called the 'capability trap' in development - which results in many interventions producing new forms that are …

poorer development outcomes. However, systematic cross-country evidence on the deleterious effects of clientelism on … development outcomes is lacking. In this paper we examine the relationship between political clientelism, public goods provision …, and governance quality using cross-country panel data for 161 countries for the period 1900-2017. We distinguish between …

-building processes. This paper explores one such dynamics-the forms of governance exercised by armed groups during wartime-and proposes a … theoretical framework outlining how forms of wartime governance affect trajectories of state-building in the aftermath of civil … governance: how armed groups build institutional capacity in wartime and the characteristics of wartime civilian rule by armed …

Social Responsibility in India: International Arena and Social Development -- Chapter 4: Politics of Corporate Social … international governance framework pertaining to CSR, that is primarily based on soft law attributes. Such international soft law … research work on assessing the Regulatory and Governance aspects of the Indian case of Corporate Social Responsibility. She has …

The paper looks at the evolution of industry in Uganda examining drivers and constraints since the pre-colonial period … policy to industrialization has not been adequate to propel industrial development in Uganda. State withdrawal from direct … involvement in industrial development was prematurely done and should be revisited …