Leader Value Added

• Tác giả: William Easterly
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 206.1 Leaders and their work
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 324086
• Chủ đề: 1. DEMOCRACY; 2. ECONOMIC GROWTH; 3. NATIONAL LEADERS; 4. POLITICAL ECONOMY; 5. TEACHER VALUE-ADDED

Tóm tắt

 Previous literature suggests that leaders matter for growth in general. This paper asks which leaders matter and develops a methodology to estimate the growth contribution of individual leaders and calculate its precision. The findings show that few leaders have statistically significant contributions
  it is difficult to know who is good for growth and who is not. The paper also finds that the most intuitive estimate of a leader's contribution-the average growth rate during tenure-is largely useless for measuring his or her true contribution. Consequently, many leaders with statistically significant growth effects are surprises. Moreover, leaders in non-democratic countries are no more likely to be statistically significant than leaders in democratic ones.