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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...
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239464
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Who really leads development?
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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Anti-corruption policy-making, discretionary power, and institutional quality : an experimental analysis
Boly, Amadou; Gillanders, Robert - 2016
probability is exogenously set, suggesting that the institutional power to choose detection can itself be corruptive. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517268
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Elites and institutional persistence
Robinson, James A. - 2010
Particular sets of institutions, once they become established in a society, have a strong tendency to persist. In this paper I argue that understanding how elites form and reproduce is key to understanding the persistence of institutions over time. I illustrate this idea with a simple political...
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Power, institutions, and state-building after war : a controlled comparison of Rwanda and Burundi
McDoom, Omar - 2023
military victory, the coercive balance-of-power at the end of war favourable to the victor enables it to dictate the post …-conflict institutional design and skew power formally in its favour. In a negotiated settlement, formal power is distributed by design among … of informal power in the post-war context whose influence is exercised through private networks of party members and …
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The politics of promoting social cash transfers in Uganda
Hickey, Sam; Bukenya, Badru - 2016
In 2015 the Government of Uganda agreed to start rolling out a social pension programme, and increasing its own contribution to it. This was driven by the highly politicized efforts of a transnational policy coalition, led by international donors and national bureaucrats. It was a struggle over...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240373
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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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Poverty, changing political regimes, and social cash transfers in Zimbabwe, 1980 - 2016
Chinyoka, Isaac - 2017
, by the World Bank, UNICEF, and other external agencies. But ZANU-PF - which was in power until 2009 and after 2013, and … shared power between those dates - resisted cash transfer programmes, favouring instead agricultural interventions (including … choices informed by the nature of Zimbabwean society and politics. …
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