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An Upside Down View of Governance
Newly published research from the DFID-funded Centre for the Future State titled An Upside Down View of Governance suggests that donors need to stop viewing the world through the lens of OECD...
View ArticleDoes Lootable Wealth Breed Disorder?: A Political Economy of Extraction...
This article proposes a political economy of extraction framework that explains political order and state collapse as alternative outcomes in the face of lootable wealth. The article looks closely at...
View ArticlePublic Finance, Security, and Development: A Framework and an Application to...
Feature Description: This 2009 paper from the World Bank analyzes the relationship between public finance, security and development. This paper analyzes the relationship between public finance,...
View ArticleUsing Regional Institutions to Improve the Quality of Public Services
The strategy followed in this paper is to study the conditions that facilitate the outsourcing of some public service provision, the governance structure ruling the relationship between the source and...
View ArticleManaging Public Finance and Procurement in Fragile and Conflicted Settings
Global responses to conflict have become pre-occupied with the high probability that enduring fragility will turn to violence. Many have achieved a sustained turn-around, but as often they suffer from...
View ArticleDivide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
This paper investigates jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in...
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Closing the Transition Gap: The Rule of Law Imperative in Stabilization...
Feature Description: This paper argues that stabilizing forces must immediately establish effective rule of law institutions following interventions. This paper argues that stabilizing forces have...
View ArticleBreaking the Curse of Sisyphus: An Empirical Analysis of Post-Conflict...
Written by Serhan Cevik and Mohammad Rahmati, this report from the IMF critically examines the transition of post-conflict economies. Tags: 2013, Africa (Sub-Sahara), Business and Conflict, Conflict...
View ArticleHow to ‘Do’ Economic Development in Conflict-Affected Contexts (Hint: It’s...
*This blog is a part of a collaborative series in partnership with Economists for Peace & SecuTags: Economic Development, Engaged Economists Writing About Conflict, Institutionsread more
View ArticleBehavioral Economics and Public Sector Reform: An Accidental Experiment and...
Starting with the hypothesis that behaviors are the critical (and often overlooked) factor in public sector performance, this paper explores the notion of how behavioral change (and thus institutional...
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