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Can agricultural development programs improve health-related outcomes? We exploit a spatial discontinuity in the coverage of a large-scale agricultural extensionprogram in Uganda to causally identify its effects on malaria. We find that eligibility for the program reduced the proportion of household...
Elites have a disproportionate impact on development outcomes. While a country's endowments constitute the deep determinates of growth, the trajectory they follow is shaped by the actions of elites. But what factors affect whether elites use their influence for individual gain or national welfare?To...
Elites have a disproportionate impact on development outcomes. While a country's endowments constitute the deep determinates of growth, the trajectory they follow is shaped by the actions of elites.But what factors affect whether elites use their influence for individual gain or national welfare? To...
– Knowledge, Entrepreneurial, and Political
From the book:
The Role of Elites in Economic Development
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From the book:
The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Book Chapter
– The Role of Elites in Economic Development
From the book:
The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Book Chapter
– Getting Public Sector Elite Officials to Support Government Reform in Brazil
From the book:
The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Book Chapter
– The Role of the Customs Elite on the Reform Process in Cameroon
From the book:
The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Book Chapter
– The Contribution to Development of the New Female Elites
From the book:
The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Book Chapter
– An Augmented Endowments-Inequality Hypothesis and the Rise of an Elite in the Cape Colony
From the book:
The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
Health Inequality and Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
Health Inequality and Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
Health Inequality and Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
Health Inequality and Development
Across the world, while income inequality among countries is declining, there is clear evidence that health related inequities are on the increase. Health is a key component of an individual’s well being, having both intrinsic and instrumental value. It is therefore imperative to understand why...
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– Disparities in Human Longevity among Countries
From the book:
Health Inequality and Development
Book Chapter
– Achieving Better Health in Developing Countries
From the book:
Health Inequality and Development
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– Getting Public Sector Elite Officials to Support Government Reform in Brazil
This paper shows how an elite cadre of public sector officials played a key role in the success of administrative reforms in Brazil’s state tax administration bureaus in the 1990s. The success of the reforms strengthened public sector bureaucracies and institutions at all government levels...
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– The Role of the Customs Elite on the Reform Process in Cameroon
An ethnographic approach is applied to Cameroon customs in order to explore the role and the capacity of the bureaucratic elites to reform their institution. Fighting against corruption has led to the extraction and circulation of legal ‘collective money’ that fuels internal funds. This collective...
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There has been a growing recognition among scholars that politics matters in the distribution of resources in society. However, attempts to use a political economy ‘lens’ with which to explore causes of poverty and strategies for poverty alleviation have largely ignored elites. By failing to embrace...
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– Knowledge, Entrepreneurial and Political
International migration analysis often focuses on mass migration rather than on the international mobility of elites, which is the focus of this paper. The paper offers a three-fold classification of elites: (a) knowledge elites, (b) entrepreneurial elites and (c) political elites. We explore the...
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