Can Tax Reforms Help Create Jobs?
Europe faces a significant job challenge. At an average of 11 percent, unemployment remains stubbornly high while labor force participation, at 58 percent of the working age population, lags behind...
View ArticleAll in the Family
Crony capitalism is the key development challenge facing Tunisia today Last week’s Economist magazine focused on Crony Capitalism. From the powerful oil barons in the USA in the 1920s to today’s...
View ArticleNine Reasons why Corruption is a Destroyer of Human Prosperity
In an earlier blog post, we commented on the sources of corruption, the factors that have turned it into a powerful obstacle to sustainable economic development. We noted that the presence of...
View ArticleWhat will Transformation do for Today’s African Youth?
Africa’s combination of urban, educated, unemployed youth and economies still dominated by a narrow range of commodities and the public sector has spurred many to call for structural shifts in...
View ArticleSix Strategies to Fight Corruption
Having looked at some of the ways in which corruption damages the social and institutional fabric of a country, we now turn to reform options open to governments to reduce corruption and mitigate its...
View Articleست استراتيجيات لمكافحة الفساد
بعد أن تعرفنا على بعض الطرق التي يضر بها الفساد النسيج الاجتماعي والمؤسسي لبلد (e)ما، ننتقل إلى خيارات الإصلاح المتاحة أمام الحكومات للحد من الفساد والتخفيف من آثاره. وتوصي روز أكرمان (1998)...
View ArticleThe Balkans: Not Enough Skills or Not Enough Work?
In many economies of the Balkans high formal unemployment is often blamed on insufficient skills in the labor force. But this intuitive diagnosis glosses over two fundamental questions, namely: why are...
View ArticleGrowth Without Apology
From time to time, countries experience rapid economic growth without a significant decline in poverty. India’s GDP growth rate accelerated in the 1990s and 2000s, but poverty continued to fall at the...
View ArticleAfrica’s Fish Belong to Africans – Stop Stealing Them
Twenty-five years ago, I lived in a fishing village, Tanji, on the coast of The Gambia. The village came alive before sunrise: if you got up early, you could see the brightly colored "pirogues"...
View ArticleFrom Paper to Practice: How Easy Is It to Ease Doing Business
The stroke of the pen is powerful indeed; it has led to wars, peace, and lots of other things in between, including changes in a country’s business environment. A large part of what defines the...
View ArticleAlways Regulated, Never Protected: How Markets Work
If you’re not already interested in livelihoods, you should be. Because livelihoods are the bottom line of development. Millions are spent on trying to build more effective states around the world, but...
View ArticleHow Ben Ali Policies Continue to Impoverish Tunisians
Hopes are high for Tunisia’s economy to improve after Tunisians voted for a new parliament in October. Pre-election polls consistently highlighted that the economy was the foremost preoccupation of...
View ArticleCorrosive Subsidies in MENA
Half the world’s energy subsidies are in the Middle East and North Africa Region. These subsidies have been criticized on grounds that they crowd out public spending on valuable items such as health,...
View ArticleJobs or Privileges?
Unleashing the Employment Potential of the Middle East and North AfricaThe majority of working-age people in MENA face a choice: they can be unemployed; or they can work in low-productivity,...
View Articleالوظائف أو الامتيازات
إطلاق العنان لخلق فرص العمل في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا ثمة خيار أمام غالبية من هم في سن العمل في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا: إما الانضمام إلى صفوف البطالة أو العمل في أنشطة ضعيفة...
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