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Boone, Catherine - 2017

who push for the market-enhancing and aggregate growth-promoting commodification of property rights, whereby market forces …

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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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