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What Is Public Policy Success, Especially in Development?

Andrews, Matt - 2022

Public policy work is hard, especially when one works in developing countries. It is even difficult to define what success looks like, and thus how to manage towards success. Literature helps manage such difficulty, providing studies that define the concept and show how it can be achieved. A...

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Collective Action in an Asymmetric World

Chen, Cuicui; Zeckhauser, Richard - 2016

A central authority possessing tax and expenditure responsibilities can readily provide an efficient level of a public good. Absent a central authority, the case with climate change mitigation, voluntary arrangements must replace coercive arrangements; significant under-provision must be...

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Estimating the Impact of the Hajj : Religion and Tolerance in Islam's Global Gathering

Clingingsmith, David - 2008

We estimate the impact on pilgrims of performing the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Our method compares successful and unsuccessful applicants in a lottery used by Pakistan to allocate Hajj visas. Pilgrim accounts stress that the Hajj leads to a feeling of unity with fellow Muslims, but outsiders...

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Development as Leadership-Led Change - A Report for the Global Leadership Initiative and the World Bank Institute (WBI)

Andrews, Matthew; McConnell, Jesse; Wescott, Alison O. - 2010

Development involves change, but many development initiatives produce unimpressive results. The authors ask why and consider how to close the gap between the intended change and what we actually see in the evidence. This paper presents the findings of a study, initiated by the multi-donor Global...

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Mauritius : African Success Story

Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2010

traced back to good institutions, including property rights (particularly non-expropriation of sugar plantations), abjuration … cabinet). But from where did the good institutions come? They were chosen around the time of independence (1968). Why in … dysfunctional politics. Here, however, it brings cosmopolitan benefits. The institutions manage to balance the ethnic groups; none …

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The Other Hand : High Bandwidth Development Policy

Hausmann, Ricardo - 2008

Much of development policy has been based on the search for a short to do list that would get countries moving. In this paper I argue that economic activity requires a large and highly interacting set of public policies and services, which constitute inputs into the production process. This is...

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Determining the Differences that Matter : Development and Divergence in US States Over 1850-2010

Mealy, Penny - 2018

Understanding the differences between rich and poor places is complicated by the fact that places differ from each other in numerous ways. In this paper, we show how a dimension reduction algorithm can unveil hidden patterns in US census data and consistently yield useful insights into the type...

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Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions

Arnold, David; Dobbie, Will; Hull, Peter - 2020

We develop new quasi-experimental tools to measure racial discrimination, due to either racial bias or statistical discrimination, in the context of bail decisions. We show that the omitted variables bias in observational release rate comparisons can be purged by using the quasi-random...

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Is Black Economic Empowerment a South African Growth Catalyst? (Or Could it Be...)

Andrews, Matthew - 2008

This study asks the question, quot;Is Black Economic Empowerment a South African growth catalyst?quot; It addresses the question with reference to the theoretical literature on economic and organizational structures. This literature argues that structures reflect values and influence patterns of...

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Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan

Campante, Filipe R. - 2014

We study the economic effects of religious practices in the context of the observance of Ramadan fasting, one of the central tenets of Islam. To establish causality, we exploit variation in the length of the fasting period due to the rotating Islamic calendar. We report two key, quantitatively...

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