This persistent underperformance, illustrated in Figure 1, is not for lack of effort; it reflects deeper political economy dynamics.Ghana’s tax ratio has risen only modestly from about 8% of GDP ...

A new book from the World Bank - Within Reach: Navigating the Political Economy of Decarbonization - analyzes the dynamics of the political economy underlying real climate policies to better ...

By Felix Larry Essilfie (Dr)In the intricate tapestry of Ghana’s political economy, the extractive sector occupies a paradoxical position: a beacon of national wealth and a crucible of ...

Marc J. Hetherington a1, Thomas J. Rudolph a2, Priming, Performance, and the Dynamics of Political Trust, The Journal of Politics, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Apr., 2008), pp. 498-512. Free online reading for ...

"This meeting felt like it was driven as much by the internal political dynamics of the Fed, as by any consistent and coherent reading of the economic situation and that was a bit disturbing to me ...

Hicken, Allen, Shanker Satyanath and Ernest Sergenti. 22005. Political Institutions and Economic Performance: The Effects of Accountability and Obstacles to Policy Change. American Journal of ...

He campaigned though not on a socialist or anti-capitalist platform, but rather taking up the cry for “change” in a degenerate decades-old political culture which is blamed by large sections of the ...