Purpose Reports and experiences suggest that several developing African economies are
faced with entrepreneurial-impeding forces such as lengthy bureaucratic processes and …

Manufacturing-led development has provided the traditional model for creating jobs and
prosperity. But in the past three decades the conventional pattern of structural transformation …

Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce
reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have …

Child marriage is still common in the developing world: in 2012, one in three women was
married by age 18, with more than 10% married before age 15. Beginning in 2000 …

Chinese local governments wield their enormous political power and administrative capacity
to provide “special deals” for favored private firms. We argue that China's extraordinary …

Purpose This policy paper compares the performance of state-owned enterprise (SOEs)
versus private firms in selected emerging economies in Asia, focusing on a number of …

Foreign aid organizations collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually, with
mixed results. Part of the problem in these endeavors lies in their execution. In Navigation by …

This study of the effect of decentralization on government performance differs from the vast
literature on the topic in three major ways. First, we compare the effects of four different forms …

" International financial crises have plagued the world in recent decades, including the Latin
American debt crisis of the 1980s, the East Asian crisis of the late twentieth century, and the …

The behavior of entrepreneurs is significantly affected by the rules of the game and the
behaviors of government officials, because they can affect the relative payoffs to different …