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  Institutions in transition : reliability of rules and economic performance in former Socialist countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
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  The "IPO - Plus" : a new approach to privatization

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
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  The comparative advantage of government : a review

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  Why should governments be involved in the provision of any good whatsoever? In theory, market failures are necessary but not sufficient conditions for justifying government intervention in the production of goods and services.
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  Local Government and Households in Primary Education in Tanzania: Some lessons for Reform

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  The roles of the formal and informal involvement of local governments, local elites, teachers and households in decision making about primary education in selected rural districts are analysed, as are some of the outcomes of this involvement. Lessons for reforms with respect to decentralization, financing and school choice are drawn.
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  Struggles of Access to land. The 'Squatter Question' in Coastal Kenya

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  In Kenya and the sub-Saharan Africa generally, there have been little systematic discussions on the post-colonial struggles over control and ownership of land. Studies ignore that the "land question" is not about production alone and consequently have failed to assess its wider consequences on the society.
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  Aid, Taxation, and Development: Analytical Perspectives on Aid Effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  Designing effective aid programs requires accurately diagnosing problems.
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  Employment, Labor Markets, and Poverty in Ghana: A Study of Changes during Economic Decline and Recovery

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  An awareness on the part of policymakers that the formal sector is only a small part of Ghana's labor market is a necessary precondition of appropriate employment policy.
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  Political, economic and social institutions : a review of growth evidence

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998

  Integrates North's institutional framework with the notion of institutions in the augmented Solow growth model, to clarify the direct and indirect channels by which institutions influence growth. Four ways to extend the Solow model in order to incorporate a rôle for institutions are outlined; and growth regressions are reinterpreted in this light.
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  The missing factor : entrepreneurial networks, enterprises and economic growth in Ghana

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995

  Contains the preliminary results from an empirical investigation into the economic role played by entrepreneurial networks in the Ghanaian Manufacturing Sector. The results suggest that such networks are an important factor determining the outputs of the sampled enterprises.
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  Does "getting prices right" work? : micro evidence from Ghana

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995

  The question posed in this paper is whether structural adjustment programs have had the consequences policy intended and theory predicts. It uses evidence from a micro survey of manufacturing firms in Ghana to assess whether policy has effected an expansion of the exportable sector within manufacturing, the growth of small firms and an increase in exports and investment.

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