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South Sudan : the road from the Paris Declaration to the reality of Juba, 2005 - 11

Larson, Greg - 2013

During Sudan's "interim period" from the end of civil war in January 2005 until South Sudan's independence in July 2011 … and capacity building of the nascent Government of Southern Sudan were core priorities. This six-year period thus provides … on Aid Effectiveness - which was signed in February 2005, shortly after Sudan's peace agreement. Assessment of how the …

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Kuznets' tension in India : two episodes

Ray, Saon; Kar, Sabyasachi - 2020

Developing countries face a trade-off between the twin objectives of structural transformation and inclusive growth. This is the 'developer's dilemma'. This study analyses the dilemma as it manifested itself in the Indian context, and identifies two distinct episodes over the post-independence...

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The potential of extractive industries as anchor investments for broader regional development

Östensson, Olle - 2020

The paper reviews what we know about the possibilities of designing and implementing policy measures that raise the contribution of the extractive industries' production/consumption links to economic growth and wellbeing, and reviews how policies pursued by various governments have succeeded. It...

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Political agency and public healthcare : evidence from India

Costa-Font, Joan; Parmar, Divya - 2016

The development of institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically the 2005 reform - the National Rural Health Mission that introduced village health and sanitation committees - provide a unique opportunity to study the effects of the strengthening of the political agency on...

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Are politically connected firms less constrained in credit markets?

Rand, John - 2017

Utilizing a panel of over 2,000 Vietnamese SMEs over a 10-year period, we analyse the importance of being politically connected on both access and cost-of-credit obtained from formal financial institutions. Controlling for unobserved time-invariant firm-level heterogeneity, productivity...

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Inferring the economic standard of living and health from cohort height : evidence from modern populations in developing countries

Akachi, Yoko; Canning, David - 2015

Average adult height is a physical measure of the biological standard of living of a population. While the biological and economic standards of living of a population are very different concepts, they are linked and may empirically move together. If this is so, then cohort heights can also be...

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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?

Sumner, Andrew - 2013

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary threshold in per capita income but it does matter...

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A capable state in Afghanistan : a building without a foundation?

de Weijer, Frauke - 2013

This paper argues that attempts at state-building in Afghanistan have led to institutions that are not robust. The state institutions and organizations continue to be highly dependent on external resources and technical expertise, and lack of critical mass of people able and willing to maintain...

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Gendered perspectives on economic growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa

Seguino, Stephanie; Were, Maureen - 2014

Researchers have linked sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) poor growth performance in recent decades to several factors, including geography, institutions, and low returns to investment. This literature has not yet integrated the research that identifies linkages between gender, economic development,...

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From fiscal stabilization to economic diversification : a developmental approach to managing resource revenues

Chang, Ha-joon; Lebdioui, Amir - 2020

The management of revenues from exhaustible natural resources involves a number of challenges. In this paper, we argue that the standard policy advice to managers of resource revenues has been dominated by short-termism and the lack of a perspective on economic development and structural...

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