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Deals and development : the political dynamics of growth episodes
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ISBN: 0191840289 0198801645 0192521667 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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When are developing countries able to initiate periods of rapid growth and why have so few been able to sustain growth over decades? This work provides a novel conceptual framework built from a political economy of business-government relations and applies it to nine countries across Africa and Asia, drawing actionable policy recommendations.


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Building state capability : evidence, analysis, action
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ISBN: 9780198807186 0191810347 0191064688 0198747489 0191064696 0198853033 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but children don't learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are written but not implemented. These achievement deficiencies reveal gaps in capabilities, and weaknesses in the process of building state capability. This book addresses these weaknesses and gaps. It starts by providing evidence of the capability shortfalls that currently exist in many countries, showing that many governments lack basic capacities even after decades of reforms and capacity building efforts. The book then analyses this evidence, identifying capability traps that hold many governments back.


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Venezuela Before Chávez
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ISBN: 0271064625 0271060913 9780271064628 9780271064642 0271064641 9780271060910 9780271056319 0271056312 0271056320 9780271056326 Year: 2021 Publisher: University Park, PA

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the twenty richest countries in the world, ahead of countries such as Greece, Israel, and Spain. Between 1978 and 2001, however, Venezuela’s economy went sharply in reverse, with non-oil GDP declining by almost 19 percent and oil GDP by an astonishing 65 percent. What accounts for this drastic turnabout? The editors of Venezuela Before Chávez, who each played a policymaking role in the country’s economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to examine systematically the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy’s collapse, from the cost of labor regulation and the development of financial markets to the weakening of democratic governance and the politics of decisions about industrial policy. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Omar Bello, Adriana Bermúdez, Matías Braun, Javier Corrales, Jonathan Di John, Rafael Di Tella, Javier Donna, Samuel Freije, Dan Levy, Robert MacCulloch, Osmel Manzano, Francisco Monaldi, María Antonia Moreno, Daniel Ortega, Michael Penfold, José Pineda, Lant Pritchett, Cameron A. Shelton, and Dean Yang.

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Financial crises --- Crashes, Financial --- Crises, Financial --- Financial crashes --- Financial panics --- Panics (Finance) --- Stock exchange crashes --- Stock market panics --- Crises --- Venezuela --- Venesuėla --- Republic of Venezuela --- República de Venezuela --- Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela --- República Bolivariana de Venezuela --- Gobierno Bolivariano --- Estados Unidos de Venezuela --- Венесуэла --- Баліварыянская Рэспубліка Венесуэла --- Balivaryi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Rėspublika Venesuėla --- Венецуела --- Venet︠s︡uela --- Боливарска република Венецуела --- Bolivarska republika Venet︠s︡uela --- Βενεζουέλα --- Venezouela --- Μπολιβαριανή Δημοκρατία της Βενεζουέλας --- Bolivarianē Dēmokratia tēs Venezouelas --- 베네수엘라 --- Penesuella --- 베네수엘라 볼리바르 공화국 --- Penesuella Bollibarŭ Konghwaguk --- Венесуэл --- Venesuėl --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Bolivaryn Venesuėl Uls --- ベネズエラ --- Benezuera --- ベネズエラ・ボリバル共和国 --- Benezuera Boribaru Kyōwakoku --- Боливарианская Республика Венесуэла --- Bolivarianskai︠a︡ Respublika Venesuėla --- Venecuela --- Bolivarska Republika Venecuela --- Venezuelan bolivariaaninen tasavalta --- Bolivarianska republiken Venezuela --- Bolivarcı Venezuela Cumhuriyeti --- Wenesuela --- Wenesuela Boliwar Respublikasy --- Венесуела --- Боліварианська Республіка Венесуела --- Bolivaryansʹka Respublika Venesuela --- 委內瑞拉 --- Weineiruila --- 委內瑞拉玻利瓦爾共和國 --- Weineiruila Boliwa'er Gongheguo --- Economic policy. --- Economic conditions --- E-books --- Financial crises. --- Venezuela.


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Expérimentations aléatoires dans le champ du développement : Une perspective critique

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En 2019, le prix de la Sveriges Riksbank en sciences économiques en Mémoire d’Alfred Nobel était décerné à trois des principaux promoteurs des expérimentations aléatoires (Randomized Controlled Trials – RCT), pour leur contribution essentielle à la lutte contre la pauvreté. Utilisée de longue date en médecine, l’expérimentation devient aujourd’hui la référence dans le champ des politiques économiques et sociales. Cette suprématie est-elle scientifiquement légitime, éthiquement satisfaisante et politiquement désirable ? Les RCT ont-elles réellement « considérablement amélioré notre capacité à combattre la pauvreté », dont la pandémie de Covid-19 a encore accru l’urgence ? À quelles questions permettent-elles de répondre et quelles autres sont laissées de côté ? Cet ouvrage de référence réunit 26 spécialistes mondiaux sur ce thème (y compris deux éminents lauréats du prix Nobel d’économie), issus d’origines différentes et d’un large spectre de disciplines (économie, statistique, anthropologie, philosophie, santé publique, etc.). Il présente, dans un langage accessible à tous, les principales forces et faiblesses des RCT dans le champ du développement : comment elles fonctionnent, ce qu’on peut en attendre, pourquoi parfois elles échouent, comment elles pourraient être améliorées, et pourquoi d’autres méthodes sont à la fois utiles et nécessaires.

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