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A quest for institutional foundations towards inclusive development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nissanke, Machiko - 2015

. Viewing institutional configurations as a system of multiple equilibria, the concepts of endogenous institutions and …

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Does foreign aid harm political institutions?

Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2015

The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new … disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and … alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small positive net effect of total aid on political institutions. Distinguishing …

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Innovation at the World Bank: Selective perspectives over three decades 1975 - 2005

Grawe, Roger - 2013

The World Bank is uniquely positioned to identify and disseminate innovative development practices. Based on his thirty-year experience as a World Bank staff member, the author takes an institutional perspective on the innovation climate at the World Bank focusing on dominant development...

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The structural anatomy and institutional architecture of inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Thorbecke, Erik - 2014

villages. Finally, the architecture of inclusive institutions in Africa is reviewed. …

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Can the context mediate macro-policy outcomes? Contextual differences in the returns to Bolsa Familia in Brazil

von Jacobi, Nadia - 2014

Local institutional and structural (meso) factors can play a role in mediating the returns to a macro-social policy. I focus on the Brazilian cash-transfer-programme Bolsa Familia and check how contextual features influence the returns to transfers. Building on Amartya Sen's work, I assess the...

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The risks to education systems from design mismatch and global isomorphism: Concepts, with examples from India

Pritchett, Lant - 2014

The incredibly low levels of learning and the generally dysfunctional public sector schooling systems in many (though not all) developing countries are the result of a capability trap (Pritchett et al. 2010). Two phenomena reinforce persistent failure of schooling systems to produce adequate...

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Capacity development for the transformation of Africa

Léautier, Frannie A. - 2014

Countries need capacity for a variety of reasons, including sustaining economic growth, generating jobs, reducing poverty, effectively managing development programmes, and transforming societies and economies. A lot of effort has been expended to develop capacity in Africa with mixed results....

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Ideational and institutional drivers of social protection in Tanzania

Ulriksen, Marianne S. - 2016

institutions with the resources, expertise, and authority to present policy solutions fitting the elite's general ideas about …

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Political economy and governance

Dietsche, Evelyn - 2017

premised on the understanding that institutions matter for development. However, there is no straightforward answer to the … question of what exactly 'institutions' are, how they change, or how they can be made to change to become more supportive of an …

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Fiscal capacity and social protection expenditure in developing nations

Murshed, Syed Mansoob; Badiuzzaman, Muhammad; Pulok, … - 2017

There is scant analysis on the causal relationship between fiscal capacity and social protection expenditure in the developing world. We investigate the causal relationship between fiscal capacity of the state and social protection expenditure, hypothesizing that fiscal capacity is necessary but...

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