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Decentralization in Developing Economies
Gadenne, Lucie; Singhal, Monica - In: Annual Review of Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 581-604
Standard models of fiscal federalism suggest many benefits of decentralization in developing economies, and there has been a recent push toward decentralization around the world. However, developing countries presently still have less decentralization, particularly on the revenue side, than both...
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Corruption and economic development nexus: Variations across income levels in a non-linear framework
Saha, Shrabani; Gounder, Rukmani - In: Economic Modelling 31 (2013) C, pp. 70-79
This article investigates the relationship between income and corruption which provides an insight to the changes in … the level of perceived corruption and economic development across countries. An existing shortcoming is that previous … studies have focused only on detecting the linear effects of income on corruption. We therefore use the hierarchical …
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The Real State : Inside the Congo's Traffic Police Agency
Sanchez de la Sierra, Raul; Titeca, Kristof; Xie, Haoyang; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze the organization of corruption in a state agency. The dual mandate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo … profits and distortions beyond those that would be made possible via corruption by individual state officials …
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Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This study is the first to provide a systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings, household spending and asset holdings. We use the compensating differential framework and the estimated sectoral gap in reported earnings and expenditures to identify the size of...
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Why Are Some Public Officials More Corrupt Than Others?
Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
reduce corruption. Overall, the judiciary and the police are by far the most corrupt institutions. …
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How Corruption Hits People When They Are Down
Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
are desperate, vulnerable, or demanding services particularly prone to corruption. The effect is strongest for bribery of …
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Bribery: Who Pays, Who Refuses, What are the Payoffs?
Hunt, Jennifer; Laszlo, Sonia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We provide a theoretical framework for understanding when an official angles for a bribe, when a client pays, and the payoffs to the client's decision. We test this framework using a new data set on bribery of Peruvian public officials by households. The theory predicts that bribery is more...
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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda
Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care: doubling household consumption increases the bribery...
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Combined Heat and Power Dispatch using Hybrid Genetic Algorithm and Biogeography-based Optimization
Roy, Provas Kumar; Ghosh, Madhumita - In: International Journal of Energy Optimization and … 6 (2017) 1, pp. 49-65
This paper explores the performance of biogeography-based optimization (BBO) algorithm for solving combined heat and … theory of biogeography and is inspired by the two concepts, namely migration of species between “islands” via flotsam, wind …
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The persistent effects of novelty-seeking traits on comparative economic development
Gören, Erkan - In: Journal of development economics 126 (2017), pp. 112-126
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