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Institutional bypass and aid effectiveness in Africa

Many practical and action-oriented international roadmaps to improve the quality of aid and its delivery and impact on development—including the Paris Declaration, Accra Agenda for Action, and Busan Partnership—emphasize a more active involvement of...

  • Aid effectiveness
  • Institutions
  • Aid policy
Journal Article
Aid Impact and Effectiveness

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness

  • Donors
  • Fragile states
  • Climate change
Journal Article
Bypassing Government

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness

  • Aid effectiveness
  • Institutions
  • Aid policy
Working Paper
Understanding the boom

There 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. This paper...

  • Developing countries
  • Institutions
  • Natural resources
Working Paper
Understanding the boom

A 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. This paper takes stock of the sequencing, timing...

  • Developing countries
  • Institutions
  • Macroeconomics
Working Paper
Institutions and Asia’s development

The 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. Despite much progress, the dominant approaches do not agree...

  • Institutions
  • Organizations
  • Political settlements
Working Paper
Revisiting the methodology of Myrdal in Asian Drama 50 years on

This paper reviews the main methodological innovations in Asian Drama. It considers whether Myrdal’s perspectives have been adopted by development analysts, and where fresh thinking is needed, particularly in the light of changes occurring in the...

  • Gunnar Myrdal
  • Institutions
Book Chapter
Political economy and governance

Part of Book Extractive Industries

  • Natural resources
  • Extractives
  • Political economy
Blog
The Nordic Model — lessons for Sri Lanka
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by Arusha Cooray January 2021

Sri Lanka, like the Nordic countries, is a social democratic nation with a strong welfare state. It is classified as a ‘high human development’...

  • Social protection
  • Economic growth
  • Labour market
Working Paper
The state and the ‘legalization’ of illicit financial flows

Most research on illicit financial flows (IFFs) has focused on illicit outflows from developing countries and the role of non-state actors in generating IFFs. Less attention has been paid to processes and interfaces through which IFFs enter formal...

  • Illicit financial flows
  • Political settlements
  • Gold
Book Chapter
Understanding the boom

Part of Book Mining for Change

  • Developing countries
  • Institutions
  • Macroeconomics
Book Chapter
Gas in Tanzania

Part of Book Mining for Change

  • Developing countries
  • Institutions
  • Macroeconomics
Working Paper
Is there a fiscal resource curse?

States’ fiscal capacity plays a pivotal role in developing economies, but it is less clear what its determinants are or what explains cross-country differences. We focus on the impact of natural resources. Standard arguments suggest that natural...

  • State capacity
  • Fiscal capacity
  • Resource curse
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Corruption and crisis: do institutions matter?

While the short-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on lives and livelihoods are well understood, we know little about the effect of the pandemic for longer-term outcomes such as corruption. We look at the historical data on political and economic...

  • Corruption
  • Institutions
  • Crisis
Research Brief
Pushing for policy innovation
  • Social protection
  • Policy entrepreneurs
  • Political settlements
Working Paper
Natural resources, institutions, and economic transformation in Mozambique

In the light of Mozambique’s natural resources boom—especially its large-scale investments in mining, oil, and gas—this paper analyses the prospects for the extractive industries to contribute to economic transformation from an institutional...

  • Economic transformation
  • Extractive industries
  • Institutions
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