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studies like the 2008 Growth Commission Report noted the importance of leadership in development. This and other studies …Leadership' is not a common topic for research in international development. In recent years, however, prominent … focused on individual leaders - or heroes - when examining 'who leads development'. The current article asks if heroes really …
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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 …Malawi confronts a development imperative in a context of rising temperatures and deep uncertainty about precipitation … 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 … recovery to structural transformation. This paper reviews the evolution of development theory and practice, the role of …. Government intervention in favour of industrialization in the 1960s-1970s resulted in the neglect of agriculture, poor growth …
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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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jeopardize economic performance and development going forward, drawing lessons for other developing countries. …
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regimes, autocratic leaders are interested in high growth rates. It also studies the historical development of China …Rapid economic development in China in the post-1978 era has been considered 'intriguing' and 'puzzling' since it … impediment to market growth. Scholars have proposed different accounts to explain this paradox, with particular emphasis on the …
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This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question … spline methods. The association between top 1% share and development is found to experience a reversal at later stages of …
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point decline in average annual real GDP growth rate. The net present value of the potential impact on GDP out to 2050 is …
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