Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/52798 
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Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2001/141
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
The last twenty years has seen an extensive and exhausting debate on how to improve the institutions of African states. But progress has been patchy at best. Many of the problems arise from a ‘partial-reform equilibrium’; initial reforms are undertaken, but then strong resistance is encountered, and reform is not completed. Consequently, although donors may be heartened to find governments speaking the rhetoric of private-sector development, governments may not in fact buy into many second-generation reforms. Public management and public expenditure reform, security-sector reform, and revenue reform are all unfinished agendas. Donor assistance to countries that are stuck in a partial-reform equilibrium is most effective when internal political dynamics succeed in changing national leaderships, as in Ghana. – aid ; democracy ; sub-Saharan Africa
JEL: 
O10
O55
ISBN: 
9291901075
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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