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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Political economy and governance

Part of Book Extractive Industries

  • Natural resources
  • Extractives
  • Political economy
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Social norms as a barrier to women’s employment in developing countries

This paper discusses cultural barriers to women’s participation and success in the labor market in developing countries. I begin by describing how gender norms influence the relationship between economic development and female employment, as well as...

  • Culture
  • Institutions
  • Developing countries
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The effects of wartime institutions on households’ ability to cope with shocks

This paper studies the legacies of wartime institutions, measured as rebelocracy, on the ability of households to cope with negative income shocks. Rebelocracy is the social order established by non-state armed actors in the communities they control...

  • Armed conflict
  • Institutions
  • Migration
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The long-term economic legacies of rebel rule in civil war

THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | A growing literature has documented widespread variation in the extent to which insurgents provide public goods, collect taxes, and regulate civilian conduct. This paper offers what is, to our knowledge, the first...

  • Armed conflict
  • Institutions
  • Migration
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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
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Can domestic institutions affect exports and innovation?

Studies show that when exports go up, innovation goes up as well. But what is the mediating effect of domestic institutions in the association between exports and innovation? If any, which institutions are more likely to improve exports and...

  • Innovation
  • Mediation analysis
  • Institutions
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Inequality and human development

In this paper we reassess the relationship between inequality and human development, focusing on the differential effect associated with the concentration of national income at different parts of the income distribution. To do so, we rely on a large...

  • Human development
  • Inequality
  • Institutions
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Frontier governmentality

We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from recourse to formal institutions of conflict management and disproportionately empowers tribal elites, provides a more fragile basis for maintaining social order in the face of...

  • Institutions
  • Governance
  • Conflict
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Trust in institutions and the profile of inequality

This paper investigates the importance of accounting for the profile of inequality in the analysis of institutional trust. Drawing on individual data from 82 countries around the world over the 1981–2021 period, it sheds light on the potential...

  • Trust
  • Institutions
  • Inequality
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