Rolling RAMSI forward: some ideas from the literature
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2008
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Batten, Aaron
Chand, Satish
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Asia Pacific Press
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A key challenge for the Regional Assistance
Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI)
is accelerating the rate of growth of the
economy. For this to happen, various
economic reforms need to be implemented.
While some of these are in train, many
remain within the long and sometimes
windy pipelines of the bureaucracy. Here
we draw lessons from the extant literature
on aid, economic growth and the political
economy of reform. We also consider the
need for the ‘deep-rooting’ of independent
institutions that can mediate between vested
interests as part of the reform process so as
to ensure its sustainability. These lessons
could be particularly pertinent given new
administrations in Solomon Islands and
Australia, who are keen for new ideas to
accelerate the pace of development. Among
our recommendations are the support of
institutional structures that help build
constituencies for reform and more effective
types of assistance that are non-financial but
which generate real economic benefits
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Pacific Economic Bulletin, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2008
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