Access to reliable, credible and up-to-date economic data has been cited as a frustrating challenge facing economic policy makers in their quest to chart favourable development plans in Africa.
Political distortions, economic development, and policy experimentation: an agenda for political economy
By Nathan Canen and Julio Solís
April 20, 2022
Governments create opportunities for economic growth and development.
17 June 2021 14:30–15:45
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Professor Wantchekon examines the mechanisms of state capture in low income countries and discusses how these mechanisms contribute to the breakdown of democratic institutions. Leonard Wantchekon is a Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and the President and Founder of the African School of Economics. His research interests include political economy, economic history and development economics. A scholar with diverse interests, he has made substantive and methodological contributions to the literature on clientelism and state capture, resource curse and democratisation.
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