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This paper reviews the literature relevant to understanding political constraints to economic reforms. Reform refers to changes in government policies or institutional rules because status quo policies and institutions are not working well to achieve the goals of economic well-being and...
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This study investigates how government ideology matters for the success of World Bank economic policy loans, which typically support market-liberalizing reforms. A simple model predicts that World Bank staff will invest more effort in designing an economic policy loan when faced with a left-wing...
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diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national …
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New representative survey data for Harare, Zimbabwe are used to analyze the conditions under which informal businesses …
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less than half a percentage point to Zimbabwe's improved per capita growth performance in recent years. Raising the country …. Zimbabwe made significant progress in infrastructure in its early period as an independent state, building a national … political turmoil in the late 1990s. Zimbabwe now faces a number of important infrastructure challenges, the most pressing of …
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effectively. The study analyzes an experimental intervention in Zimbabwe intended to reduce abuse of power by village heads …
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Why is the urban-rural gap in child malnutrition increasing in Peru despite government efforts to improve the provision of public services? To answer this question, the impact of regional public expenditure in Peru on young children's nutritional outcomes is examined. To account for policy...
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This study investigates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral highway project on the urban and rural growth of Indian manufacturing. The Golden Quadrilateral project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. The study uses a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to...
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Under increasing budget pressure, Morocco carried out an extensive set of subsidy reforms in 2014 and is planning for further reforms for 2015?2017, which will eliminate most consumers'subsidies. This paper evaluates (ex post) the 2014 reforms and simulates (ex ante) the impact on household...
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This paper constructs indicators of structural bottlenecks arising from barriers to open markets, obstacles to business operations, and constraints to access to finance. Empirical evidence from a sample of 30 emerging economies indicates that barriers to open markets and access to finance are...
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