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Measuring corruption: perception surveys or victimization surveys?

Roca, Thomas - HAL - 2011

While methodologies and survey techniques recorded progress over the years, corruption measurement remains a many-headed monster. Since 2003 and the first publication of Transparency International's Global Corruption Barometer, researchers have access to population's feeling about the corruption...

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Different tiers of government in port governance: some general remarks on the institutional geography of ports in Europe and Canada

Debrie, Jean - HAL - 2010

For the last thirty years, port governance has been marked by a new level of complexity which has resulted in the … modes of governance and is now attempting to explain how they are linked to port performance Models of port governance … on public decision-making and the institutional models applied in port governance in 7 European countries and Canada. It …

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Assessing the World Bank's influence on the good governance paradigm

Diarra, Gaoussou; Plane, Patrick - HAL - 2011

What does governance mean for the World Bank and to what extent does the organization succeed in diffusing the paradigm … worldwide? The World Bank primarily focused on economic aspects of governance in the 1980s, and progressively moved to its … knowledge on this specific issue. The potential influence of the World Bank's main governance indicators: Country Policy and …

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Public Debt Accumulation and Institutional Quality: Can Corruption Improve Welfare?

Faure, Pierre-Henri - HAL - 2009

We explore the consequences of bad governance and corruption for public debt and welfare in a model of policymaking …

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Entre gouvernance et leadership : la palabre et le chef

Arnal, Juliette; Galavielle, Jean-Pierre - HAL - 2004

La question du champ couvert par la gouvernance d'entreprise n'est pas définitivement tranchée pas plus que ne l'est celle de la limite entre gouvernance et leadership. La question se pose donc bien de savoir ce que l'on entend par gouvernance aujourd'hui. Serait-elle à opposer à cet autre...

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The governance of the World Bank : analysis and implications of the decisional power of the G10

Foch, Arthur - HAL - 2007

This article discusses the World Bank's formal rules of governance. It states that theoretically, each of the World … and their attached conditions. In the second place, four features of the World Bank's governance which protect and re … rules of governance give the G10 the voting weight at all three levels of decision making but several governing features …

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Community-based Development and Poverty Alleviation: An Evaluation of China’s Poor Village Investment Program

Park, Albert; Wang, Sangui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

consumption of richer households by 6.1 to 9.2 percent. We also find suggestive evidence that governance matters in the …

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Inequality and Institutions

Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper presents theory and evidence on the relationship between inequality and institutional quality. We exhibit a model in which the two dynamically reinforce each other and set to test this relationship with a broad array of institutional measures. We establish the double causality between...

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Leniency Policies and Illegal Transactions

Buccirossi, Paolo; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

properly designed - leniency may simultaneously provide an effective governance mechanism for occasional sequential illegal …

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Why Are Some Public Officials More Corrupt Than Others?

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Using detailed Peruvian data measuring bribery, I assess which types of public official are most corrupt and why. I distinguish between the bribery rate and the size of bribes received, and seek to explain the variation in each across public institutions. The characteristics of officials'...

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