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Why Do Development Policies Often Fail in Africa? Perspectives on the World Development Report 2017
›By Landry Signé // Friday, December 1, 2017
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim (far right) talks with Minister of Finance, Planning & Economic Development, Hon. Maria Kiwanuka in Kampala, Uganda. Photo courtesy of World Bank Photo Collective via Flickr Commons.
The 2017 World Development Report on Governance and the Law focuses on questions related to the formulation and implementation of development policies and their outcomes in Africa. These concerns have usually centered on why supposedly well-crafted policies often fail to be adopted, and when they are, why they fail to achieve their desired objectives, as well as on why certain bad policies persist although acknowledged by policy leaders as such. In addressing these questions, the report is of the view that:
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