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Understanding the boom: A framing paperA significant natural resource discovery creates excited popular expectations of imminent wealth. But the size of a boom is usually overestimated and the delay in receiving revenues is underestimated...
Developing countries Institutions MacroeconomicsWorking Paper
Understanding the boom: Country study—TanzaniaThere are large volumes of gas offshore Tanzania, which has raised hopes of a boom. But those hopes look set to be disappointed. A boom would depend on there being a sizeable flow of revenue to government from producing and exporting gas...
Developing countries Institutions Natural resourcesWorking Paper
Institutions and Asia’s development: The role of norms and organizational powerThe role of institutions in Asian development has been intensely contested since Myrdal’s Asian Drama, with later contributions from institutional economics and developmental state theory...
Institutions Organizations Political settlementsBook Chapter
Political economy and governanceFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Natural resources Extractives Political economyWorking Paper
Revisiting the methodology of Myrdal in Asian Drama 50 years onThis paper reviews the main methodological innovations in Asian Drama ...
Gunnar Myrdal InstitutionsWorking Paper
Fiscal capacity and social protection expenditure in developing nationsThere is scant analysis on the causal relationship between fiscal capacity and social protection expenditure in the developing world...
fiscal capacity Inequality InstitutionsWorking Paper
Political economy and governanceThis paper reviews the political economy of extractive resources and the associated resources sector governance agenda...
Natural resources Extractives Political economyWorking Paper
Ideational and institutional drivers of social protection in TanzaniaIn the early 2000s, there was low elite commitment to social protection in Tanzania. Yet, in 2012, the government officially launched a countrywide social safety net programme, and a year later it announced the introduction of an old age pension...
Social protection Policy entrpreneurs Political settlementsSeminar
African economic growth: Productivity, policy syndromes and the importance of institutionsSpeaker Augustin Kwasi Fosu, Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER. Recent evidence from an exhaustive political-economy study of growth of African economies – the Growth Project of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) - suggests that...
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Economies in transition: The long-run viewChair: Erik Berglof, Chief Economist, EBRD Speakers: Professor Gérard Roland, University of California, Berkeley. Dr Rania Al-Mashat, Assistant Sub-Governor and Head of Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of Egypt. Professor Roland,...