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Doing business in a deals world : the doubly false premise of rules reform

Kar, Sabyasachi; Pritchett, Lant; Roy, Spandan; Sen, Kunal - 2019

The World Bank’s Doing Business reports have evoked an intense policy debate about whether countries should simplify regulatory rules in order to stimulate investment and growth, or make them more stringent in order to achieve public policy objectives. Both sides of this debate, however,...

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

Pritchett, Lant - 2014

economics' from principal agent models and contract theory. In particular, many education systems attempt to manage teaching and …. 1977; Boli et al. 1985; Meyer et al. 1997). That is, the field (in the sense of Bourdieu 1993) of global education has …, measured in any way). I conclude with a comparison in India of the national governments recent efforts in basic education which …

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Entrepreneurship, stages of development, and industrialization

Acs, Zoltán J.; Naudé, Wim - 2011

Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...

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Data, global development, and COVID-19 : lessons and consequences

Naudé, Wim; Vinuesa, Ricardo - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic holds at least seven lessons for the relationship between data-driven decision making, the use of artificial intelligence, and development. These are that (1) in a global crisis, the shifting value of data creates policy pitfalls; (2) predictions of crises and how they play...

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