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What Does Good Governance Mean?Rachel M. Gisselquist Almost all major development institutions today say that promoting good governance is an important part of their agendas. The...
Rachel M. Gisselquist Almost all major development institutions today say that promoting good governance is an important part of their agendas. The...
21 February 2014 Rachel M. Gisselquist Earlier this month, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published a scathing critique of the role of...
by John Toye Is bureaucracy a vital institution that has to be built up by poor countries in pursuit of economic development? Or is it, on the...
New research for UNU-WIDER explores the differences between revolutionary mass mobilizations in democracies versus dictatorships. Evidence from...
Measuring the effectiveness of local government in Ghana is hampered by incomplete records, but despite that there are still visible patterns, write...
Tony Addison This month saw the visit of Kaushik Basu, the World Bank’s new Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics, to...