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Growth Identification and Facilitation : The Role of the State in the Dynamics of Structural Change
Lin, Justin Y. - 2017
Active economic policies by developing countries? governments to promote growth and industrialization have generally been viewed with suspicion by economists, and for good reasons: past experiences show that such policies have too often failed to achieve their stated objectives. But the...
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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …
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Oil Discovery and Macroeconomic Management : The Recent Ghanaian Experience
Bawumia, Mahamudu - 2017
This paper analyses the evolution of fiscal and monetary variables in Ghana, from the discovery of oil in 2007 through … framework. The suggested causes include the politics of Ghana's dominant two-party system. Finally, the paper discusses what … Ghana could have done differently to avoid the various damaging effects associated with the oil discovery. It does not aim …
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How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income Countries?
Knack, Stephen - 2020
This study investigates the World Bank's use of lending and non-lending instruments to affect the policy priorities of developing countries. In a typical year, the World Bank lends more than $30 billion to its client countries. It also spends approximately $200 million on the provision of...
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Toward Successful Development Policies : Insights from Research in Development Economics
Artuc, Erhan - 2020
What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...
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Correlates of Success in World Bank Development Policy Lending
Moll, Peter G. - 2017
This paper examines the correlates of success of development policy lending operations of the World Bank between 2004 and 2012. The paper uses a data set constructed of individual loan characteristics and ex-post loan ratings produced by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. Departing...
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"Small Miracles"-- Behavioral Insights to Improve Development Policy : World Development Report 2015
Demeritt, Allison - 2017
One of the most fruitful advances in modern economics has been the introduction of psychological realism into the model of "economic man." The World Development Report 2015 organizes the evidence about how humans actually think and make decisions into a coherent framework useful for designing...
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Local Foundations for Better Governance : A Review of Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao's Localizing Development
Myerson, Roger - 2017
In Localizing Development, Mansuri and Rao survey theory and evidence for development strategies based on local community empowerment. This note extends their theoretical argument by focusing on local government as a vital source of new leadership. Local leaders who provide better public service...
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The Second Wave of Independence : Shopping for Solutions
Gaarder, Marie - 2017
In the 21st century, many developing countries will become emerging markets and will no longer be in need of the carrot-and-stick approach to development assistance most prevalent today: development financing made available conditional on certain policies and interventions. This paper suggests...
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Escaping the Capability Trap : Turning"Small"Development Into"Big"Development
Campos, J. Edgardo - 2017
The international development community has been grappling with the challenges of implementing development programs and, consequently, with the design of practical approaches to attaining program objectives. This paper contributes to the emerging discussion on addressing the implementation...
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