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Growth of African economies : productivity, policy syndromes, and the importance of institutions

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 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 sub-Saharan Africa during...

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Anti-corruption policy-making, discretionary power, and institutional quality : an experimental analysis

Boly, Amadou; Gillanders, Robert - 2016

We analyse policy makers' incentives to fight corruption under different institutional qualities. We find that 'public officials', even when non-corrupt, significantly distort anti-corruption institutions by choosing a lower detection probability when this probability applies to their own...

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Aid and institution-building in fragile states : the case of Somali-inhabited eastern Horn of Africa

Menkhaus, Ken - 2014

Institution-building in Somalia has met with high levels of failure for two decades. But successes have occurred in … most effective aid to institution-building in Somalia has been carefully calibrated support to hybrid local governance …

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Education from the bottom up : UNICEF's education programme in Somalia

Williams, James; Cummings, William K. - 2013

these developments. This case study looks at UNICEF's education programme in Somalia between 1991 and 2010. Highlighted are …

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'Embedded' assistance : Finn Church aid's secondment in Somalia

Lepistö, Rauli S.; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Ojala, Jussi - 2015

- through a unique case study of Finn Church Aid's experience with secondment in Somalia. Building upon FCA's previous work in … Somalia, its staff member worked as part of the Transitional Federal Government's Ministry of Constitutional Affairs and …

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Armed groups' modes of local engagement and post-conflict (in)stability : insights from the Ethiopian and Somali civil wars

Gassier, Marine - 2023

Ethiopia in the 1990s with the trajectory of the armed movements in Somalia that also overthrew the incumbent military regime …

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Understanding Somalia's social contract and state-building efforts : consequences for donor interventions

Cloutier, Mathieu; Hassan, Hodan; Isser, Deborah H.; … - 2022

qualitative assessments in Somalia. This paper uses the framework developed regionally to explore the citizen-state bargain and … social outcomes in Somalia and is relevant for most fragile and conflict-affected countries. The qualitative parts describing … the social contract in Somalia use the lenses of security, education, and taxes to describe the current setting. It is …

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Central Asia after two decades of independence

Pomfret, Richard - 2010

After becoming independent in 1991, the five Central Asian countries pursued differing transition paths from the defunct central planning. This paper analyses the connection between economic policies and performance during the 1990s and 2000s. Performance over the two decades has been determined...

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Exiting the fragility trap : rethinking our approach to the world's most fragile states

Carment, David; Samy, Yiagadeesen - 2017

Those fragile states whose stagnation is so tenacious despite generous aid programs, and substantial and costly interventions, are stuck in a 'fragility trap.' Caught in a low-level equilibrium, trapped states appear to be in a perpetual political and economic limbo that can last for years and...

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Uruguay's income inequality and political regimes during 1981 - 2010

Amarante, Verónica; Colafranceschi, Marco; Vigorito, Andrea - 2011

This study assesses the evolution of inequality in Uruguay during 1981-2010, considered as subperiods built on the basis of the main policy regimes observed: extreme right (1981-84), centre-right (1985-89), right (1990-2004), and centre-left (2005-10). Income inequality diminished during the...

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