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How do governments become great? : ten cases, two competing explanations, one large research agenda

Andrews, Matt - 2013

Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: 'how do governments become great?'....

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Who really leads development?

Andrews, Matt - 2013

'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...

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Overcoming the limits of institutional reform in Uganda

Andrews, Matt; Bategeka, Lawrence - 2013

This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms … and public administration, public financial management, revenue management, procurement, and anti-corruption) - that laws … that new mechanisms work as intended. The paper suggests that government should reframe its reform agenda to address these …

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Thirty years in Africa's development : from structural adjustment to structural transformation?

Addison, Tony - 2015

Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack of diversification in Africa's economies-in contrast to...

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Aid, political business cycles and growth in Africa

Chiripanhura, Blessing M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2014

This paper develops a model of opportunistic behaviour in which an incumbent government resort to expansionary fiscal and/or monetary stimuli to foster economic growth and thus, maximize the probability of re-election. Using a panel dataset of 51 African countries covering the period 1980 to...

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A meta-analysis of aid effectiveness : revisiting the evidence

Mekasha, Tseday Jemaneh; Tarp, Finn - 2018

As research on the empirical link between aid and growth continues to grow, it is time to revisit the accumulated evidence on aid effectiveness. This paper does this by building on the meta-analysis in our previous work. The availability of more data enables us to conduct a sub-group analysis by...

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Aid, growth, and development : have we come full circle?

Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2010

The micro-macro paradox has been revived. Despite broadly positive evaluations at the micro and meso-levels, recent literature doubts the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth and development. This paper assesses the aid-growth literature and, taking inspiration from the program...

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Aid, growth and private capital flows to Ghana

Osei, Robert Darko - 2012

This study provides an analysis of the aid-private capital flows-growth nexus for Ghana. It is premised on the argument that Ghana's new status as a middle income country plus the start of oil production is bound to result in a reduction in ODA inflows in the long term. However in the short to...

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Impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Sierra Leone : empirical analysis

Kargbo, Philip Michael - 2012

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Sierra Leone, a country where an empirical econometric study on aid effectiveness is yet to exist. Using a triangulation of approaches involving the ARDL bounds test approach and the Johansen maximum likelihood approach to...

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Aid, employment and inclusive growth in conflict-affected countries : policy recommendations for Liberia

Castillo, Graciana del - 2012

The experience and lessons of the last two decades have shown that ignoring the key differences between the economics of peace and the economics of development has been a major reason why countries relapse into conflict. This paper briefly analyses such differences and their important...

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