Expert analysis on industrial policy, institutional reform, and capital allocation strategies for seasoned professionals navigating complex development landscapes.
Imagine you are a mayor in a mid-sized city. Your team has spent months designing a school consolidation plan that would save $12 million a year and r...
Capacity building has a good reputation. It sounds like investment, like growth, like the responsible thing to do. Funders love it. Reformers swear by...
Bureaucratic silos are stubborn. They outlast ministers, departmental secretaries, and entire reform crews. So when you inherit a structure designed b...
Every reform leader has felt the tension: the clock is ticking, the window is narrow, but legitimacy requires consultation, transparency, and buy-in. ...
Nine years ago, a federal agency I advised still relied on a paper-based approval process designed in the 1990s. It worked. Until it didn’t. Whe...
Capital deepening—investing in more capital per worker—looks like a universal good. But push it too fast, and governance buckles. Think of a governmen...
The term 'frontier market' suggests adventure—but also ambiguity. Capital flows in, yet institutions lag. The result? Wasted billions. This article is...
Capital deepened sounds like a no-brainer: invest in better tools, get more output per worker. But what if the new unit creates a waiting series where...
Economic development sounds like a boardroom term. But for a town of 12,000 people, it means a shuttered Main Street bakery reopening. It means a fact...
If you are reading this in 2026, you have already felt the shift. The old playbook for economic development — attract a big factory, cut taxes, watch ...
When a new minister arrives at a ministry in a fragile state, she often faces a quiet ultimatum: work through the old boys' network, or watch your ref...
In 2014, Ethiopia bet big on shoe factories. The government built industrial parks, offered cheap power, and courted Chinese leather firms. By 2019, e...