Development Matters

Issues in Development Econ. By Woubet Kassa

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Image courtesy of Chris Hadfield.

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An essential component of political development is an effective public bureaucracy that can enforce rules, extract taxes and provide public...

Legitimacy Not Democracy has been the “thing” critical for growth, but still...

There is an age old debate in the economic growth literature on whether democracy in the political realm promotes, impedes or has no effect ...
Jeffrey Sachs Vs. D. Acemoglu and J. Robinson on “Why Nations Fail”

In their interesting read "Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty", Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson ...
The Next Fifty Years - Africa

Yesterday(July 30, 2013), I attended an interesting discussion on “ The Next Fifty Years of the African Union ” at the Brookings Institutio...

Woubet is a graduate student in Economics at American University, Washington, DC.

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