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The Mozambican Civil Service Incentives, Reforms and Performance
Sulemane, Jose A.; Kayizzi-Mugerwa, Steve - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059973
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Zambian Policy-making and the Donor Community in the 1990s
Van der Heijden, Hendrik - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031679
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The risks to education systems from design mismatch and global isomorphism: Concepts, with examples from India
Pritchett, Lant - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854522
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Growth of African economies: Productivity, policy syndromes, and the importance of institutions
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
Recent evidence from an exhaustive political economy study of growth of African economies.the growth project of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) suggests that .policy syndromes. have substantially contributed to the generally poor growth in
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854523
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Innovation at the World Bank: Selective perspectives over three decades 1975-2005
Grawe, Roger - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854542
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Twenty Years Later and the Socialist Heritage is still Kicking: the Case of Russia
Ofer, Gur - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
Only recently, 20 years after transition to a market system, has Russia regained a similar production level it had achieved on the eve of transition in 1991. This may sound surprising, given its low productivity under central planning which dropped even l
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493677
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The Allocation of Entrepreneurial Talent and Destructive Entrepreneurship
Sanders, Mark; Weitzel, Utz - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
Entrepreneurship is generally regarded as a force of change, innovation, and development in modern economies. Entrepreneurs bring new and better products to markets, restore allocative efficiency through arbitrage and reinvest their profits. However,
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493679
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Civil Society, Institutional Change and the Politics of Reform: The Great Transition
Bruszt, Laszlo; Campos, Nauro F.; Fidrmuc, Jan - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between differences in civil society development under communism and the political, economic and institutional change and transformation after 1989. We collected a unique dataset on nature and intensity of
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493680
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The Great Transformation 1989-2029: Could It Have Been Better? Will It Be Better?
Kolodko, Grzegorz W. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
Over 1.8 billion people, from Central Europe to East Asia, have been involved in the great systemic transformation to market economy, civic society and democracy. The process has brought mixed fruits. The diversification of the current situation is a resu
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493690
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Misuse of Institutions: Lessons from Transition
Polishchuk, Leonid - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
The paper explores a phenomenon often observed in transition economies, when newly established institutions are misused … incidences institutions become sources of private gains and lose their value-creation role and capacity. We offer a typology of … governments and societies fail to serve as institutions’ guardians. Implications misused institutions for economic and political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008500393