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Economic development and institutions in Mozambique: Factors affecting public financial managementMozambique has achieved incipient but still fragile socio-economic development since 1975. The public financial management system has been reformed and improved, but its performance has weakened since 2013...
Democracy Growth strategy Institutional economicsBook Chapter
Slack resources and innovation in Vietnamese SMEs: A behavioural, stewardship, and institutional perspectiveFrom the book: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam
Innovation Slack Institutional economicsJournal Article
Taxation and social protection under governance decentralisationGovernments do not have perfect information regarding constituent priorities and needs. This lack of knowledge opens the door for groups to lobby in order to affect the taxes they pay the government...
Institutional economics Intergovernmental fiscal relations State governmentsWorking Paper
Slack resources and innovation in Vietnamese SMEs: A behavioural, stewardship, and institutional perspectiveSlack resources are usually identified as an endogenous motivation for firms’ innovation. Still, it is crucial to assess the importance of slack in supporting innovation, especially in different institutional contexts...
Innovation Slack Institutional economicsWorking Paper
Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralizationGovernments do not have perfect information regarding constituent priorities and needs. This lack of knowledge opens the door for groups to lobby in order to affect the government’s taxation levels...
Institutional economics Intergovernmental fiscal relations State governmentsAbout
Photos - AL16The folk and the formula– pathways to capable states...
Capacity building Institutional economics Socio-Economic TransformationAbout
Presentation - AL16The 2012 WIDER Annual Lecture was given by Professor Lant Pritchett. He discussed the importance of building state capability in developing countries for tackling long-term development challenges. View or download slides as pdf
Capacity building Institutional economics Socio-Economic TransformationWorking Paper
The industrial policy experience of the electronics industry in MalaysiaDespite the use of industrial policies to stimulate economic growth by several successful developers, latecomers have faced mixed experiences. Hence, this paper analyses the industrial policy experience of the electronics industry in Malaysia...
Electronic commerce Industrial policy Institutional economicsVideo
WIDER Annual Lecture by Lant PritchettView the WIDER Annual Lecture on The folk and the formula– pathways to capable states...
Capacity building Institutional economics Socio-Economic TransformationWorking Paper
Does foreign aid harm political institutions?The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Government financing Institutional economicsBook Chapter
Capacity Development for TransformationFrom the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 2...
Economic development Human capital Institutional economicsBlog
From the Editor’s Desk (June-August 2015)
And so we come to the summer Angle . We have just passed the longest day (midsummer) in Helsinki, with 19 or so hours of daylight...
Agriculture Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic growthBlog
Institutions and Impact – Some Reflections on the UNU-WIDER Method
I have spent much of the last two years on behalf of UNU-WIDER engaged in thinking about these two issues, but only on this current trip to Toronto, to interview Professor Gerry Helleiner with my colleague Annett Victorero, have I seen that instituti...
Economic policy Information technology Institutional economicsWorking Paper
A Quest for Institutional Foundations Towards Inclusive Development in Sub-Saharan AfricaThe paper explores the paths towards building institutional foundations for inclusive development in Sub-Saharan Africa...
Economic development Institutional economicsBook Chapter
Institutional Reforms, Private Sector, and Economic Growth in AfricaThe aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of institutional reforms on the revival of African economies...
Economic policy (Business enterprises) Economic development Institutional economicsBook Chapter
How Does Colonial Origin Matter for Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa?This paper investigates some of the existing hypotheses regarding the transmission of different colonial legacies to modern day economic growth...
Decolonization Economic development Education