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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 … focused on individual leaders - or heroes - when examining 'who leads development'. The current article asks if heroes really …

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Overcoming the limits of institutional reform in Uganda

Andrews, Matt; Bategeka, Lawrence - 2013

This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms actively and consistently for three decades now, and has produced many laws, processes and structures that are 'best in class' in Africa (and beyond). The problem is that many of the...

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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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ELIAS A Model of Multisectoral Economic Growth in a Small Open Economy

Bergman, Lars - 1983

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Comparative Advantage and Development Policy 20 Years Later

Krueger, Anne O. - 1982

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Africa's Prospects for Enjoying a Demographic Dividend

Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2016

out of a development trap. …

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The effect of emigration on home-country political institutions

Lodigiani, Elisabetta - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

literature investigates whether international migration can be an important factor for institutional development. Overall, the …

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Foreign Aid and Inclusive Development: Updated Evidence from Africa, 2005-2012

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2015

dynamics on inequality adjusted human development. Contemporary and non-contemporary OLS, Fixed-effects and a system GMM … implications are discussed in the light of the post-2015 development agenda. We also provide some recommendations for a rethinking … of theories and models on which development assistance is based. …

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Foreign Aid Fiscal Policy: Theory and Evidence

Asongu, Simplice; Jellal, Mohamed - 2015

The paper provides theoretical and empirical justifications for the instrumentality of foreign aid in stimulating private investment and fixed capital formation through fiscal policy mechanisms. We propose an endogenous growth theory based on an extension of Barro (1990) by postulating that the...

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Law, Politics and the Quality of Government in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

This paper examines interconnections between law, politics and the quality of government in Africa. We investigate whether African democracies enjoy relatively better government quality compared to their counterparts with more autocratic inclinations. The empirical evidence is based on...

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