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Andrews, Matt - 2013

'Leadership' is not a common topic for research in international development. In recent years, however, prominent … studies like the 2008 Growth Commission Report noted the importance of leadership in development. This and other studies … complex multi-agent leadership interventions - not individual heroes. …

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Cooperation and leadership in a segregated community : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in a South African township

Grieco, Daniela; Braga, Michela; Bripi, Francesco - 2016

The paper presents the results of a lab-in-the-field experiment in three South African townships located in the suburbs of Cape Town. The experimental design consists of a set of decisions on how the members of a naturally occurring group allocate an endowment to a private or to a public...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484497

How do governments become great? : ten cases, two competing explanations, one large research agenda

Andrews, Matt - 2013

Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: 'how do governments become great?'....

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Does successful governance require heroes? : the case of Sergio Fajardo and the city of Medellín ; a reform case for instruction

Fajardo, Alejandro; Andrews, Matt - 2014

abridged version of the story offers instructors a classroom case to discuss leaders and leadership in governance reform. …

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Explaining positive deviance in public sector reforms in development

Andrews, Matt - 2013

Public sector reforms are commonplace in developing countries. Much of the literature about these reforms reflects on their failures. This paper asks about the successes and investigates which of two competing theories best explain why some reforms exhibit such positive deviance. These theories...

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COVID-19 and the state : Nicaragua case study

Jarquín, Mateo Cayetano - 2022

leadership mattered more than state capacity in determining the public health response. …

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Managerial attributes and enterprise access to formal credit in Myanmar

Hansen, Henrik; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Trifkovic, Neda - 2019

Using data from a new survey of small and medium-sized enterprises in Myanmar, we analyse enterprise demand for formal credit and the extent to which they are constrained in the formal credit market. We account for firms self-selecting out of the credit market in Myanmar. Our data contain...

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Assessing the likelihood of regional climate change over the Nile River basin and northern Africa : a hybrid assessment

Schlosser, C. Adam; Strzepek, Kenneth M. - 2015

northern Africa are presented. The probabilistic projections are obtained through a technique that combines projections of the …

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Competing cleavages in sub-Saharan Africa? : how economic distance affects ethnic bloc politics

Conroy-Krutz, Jeffrey - 2016

Does economic standing cross-cut ethnicity in African electoral politics? In many countries in the region, ethnicity appears to be a major consideration in individuals' political decision-making. However, there is significant variation in the extent to which coethnics support parties en bloc;...

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The impact of intergovernmental transfers on local revenue generation in Africa : evidence from Tanzania

Masaki, Takaaki - 2016

on local revenues in sub-Saharan Africa, a region where local fiscal capacity is limited and endogenously determined by … of many rural districts in Africa - intergovernmental transfers facilitate local revenue generation instead of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548235

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