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studies like the 2008 Growth Commission Report noted the importance of leadership in development. This and other studies …
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This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms actively and consistently for three decades now, and has produced many laws, processes and structures that are 'best in class' in Africa (and beyond). The problem is that many of the...
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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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trends. We evaluate the implications of climate change for overall growth and development prospects to 2050. We focus on … uncertainty in climate forecasts. We find that climate change is unlikely to substantially slow overall economic growth over the …
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Africa's improved growth performance over the last 15 years provides an opportunity for the continent to transit from …. Government intervention in favour of industrialization in the 1960s-1970s resulted in the neglect of agriculture, poor growth … require accelerated agricultural productivity growth, a modernized informal service sector, and effective industrialization …
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Understanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and … between inequality and growth via growth and inequality shocks for two large economies, China and the USA, for the years 1979 …- 2018. We find that a growth shock is inequality-increasing, and an inequality shock is growthreducing. We also find …
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This study links a multi-sectoral regionalized dynamic computable general equilibrium model of Ethiopia with a system of country-specific hydrology, crop, road and hydropower engineering models to simulate the economic impacts of climate change towards 2050. In the absence of externally funded...
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The paper discusses views on China and India as country role models. In so doing the article recounts the economic and political reforms pursued by the two countries. The paper also outlines the outstanding reforms and the bottlenecks that could jeopardize economic performance and development...
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impediment to market growth. Scholars have proposed different accounts to explain this paradox, with particular emphasis on the … regimes, autocratic leaders are interested in high growth rates. It also studies the historical development of China …'s developmental elites to understand their motivations for economic growth in the reform era. To better understand whether or not …
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