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Aid, structural change and the private sector in Africa

Page, John M. - 2012

This paper argues that official development assistance (foreign aid) is partly responsible for the lack of structural change in Africa. Africa's development partners have devoted too few resources and too little attention to two critical constraints to private investment, infrastructure and...

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Foreign aid, public sector and private consumption in Uganda : a cointegrated vector autoregressive approach

Bwire, Thomas; Morrissey, Oliver; Lloyd, Tim A. - 2013

This paper employs a cointegrated vector autoregressive model to assess the growth effect of aid in Uganda over the period 1972-2008. Results show that aid in Uganda has had both direct and indirect beneficial association with growth; that it is the productivity and not the stead state level of...

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Lessons for Japanese foreign aid from research on aid's impact

Addison, Tony; Tarp, Finn - 2015

Japan has an impressive history when it comes to aid, industrial policy, and infrastructure development, both as a …, and recognizing the critical role it played in the development of Japan, is a vital step towards making the real gains aid … technical assistance to project preparation, it can help to provide the public goods that resonate most with Japan's vision of …

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COVID-19 and the state

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Vaccaro, Andrea - 2021

We expect effective state institutions to matter in a country's ability to respond to crises. Yet notably in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, what has stood out in simple global snapshots is that wealthier countries with stronger institutions have had the highest numbers of cases and...

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Ghana's experiments with business-government co-ordination

Aryeetey, Ernest; Owoo, Nkechi S. - 2015

The article explores the various co-ordination mechanisms between the state and the business community in Ghana, and the implications for economic growth in the country. We focus on three periods in the economic history of state-business relations: the immediate post-independence period and the...

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Korea's evolving business-government relationship

Kim, Eun Mee - 2015

South Korea has gained economic development despite the obstacles it faced as a war-torn country with little natural resources and capital. Poverty, lack of democracy, as well as war and conflict were challenges the country faced in the early 1960s; issues not very different from what many...

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Economic governance : improving the economic and regulatory environment for supporting private sector activity

Kirkpatrick, Colin H. - 2012

This paper reviews the state of knowledge on the effectiveness of donor interventions aimed at improving the regulatory environment for private sector development in developing countries. Where regulatory reform is undertaken, the expectation is that there will be improvements to economic and...

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Institutional reforms, private sector, and economic growth in Africa

Okey, Mawussé Komlagan Nézan - 2011

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of institutional reforms on the revival of African economies. We study the impact of positive changes in business environment indicators of the Doing Business project and the Economic Freedom Index of the Heritage Foundation on the private sector...

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Varieties of capitalists? : the middle class, private sector and economic outcomes in Africa

Handley, Antoinette - 2014

Political scientists have generally seen two key features of African political economies - a relatively small or absent middle class, and a middle class that is unusually embedded in the state - as key explanations of the troubled political and economic trajectories of many African societies....

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Non-state sovereign entrepreneurs and non-territorial sovereign organizations

Brauer, Jurgen; Haywood, Robert C. - 2010

We propose two new concepts, of non-state sovereign entrepreneurs and the non-territorial sovereign organizations they form, and relate them to issues pertaining to state sovereignty, governance failures, and violent social conflict over the appropriation of the powers that accrue to states in...

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