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Public Sector Motivation and Development Failures
Macchiavello, Rocco - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
This paper provides a theoretical analysis of the relationship between public sector motivation and development. In the model the public sector produces a public good and workers are heterogeneous in terms of public sector motivation (PSM). Wages in the private sector increase with the quality...
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Agriculture in African Development: A Review of Theories and Strategies
Dercon, Stefan; Gollin, Douglas - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
Agriculture is the largest sector in most sub-Saharan economies in terms of employment, and it plays an important role in supplying food and export earnings.  Rural poverty rates remain high, and labor productivity is strikingly low.  This paper asks how these factors shape the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159035
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Does Oil Corrupt? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa
Vicente, Pedro C. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
corruption. We argue that an anticipated oil boom may increase corruption by boosting the value attributed by an elite to being … announcements that took place in 1997-99 in Sao Tome and Principe (West Africa). For this objective we conducted purposedly …-designed household surveys on perceived corruption in the public services/sector. These were carried out in Sao Tome and Principe and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047735
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Greening Africa? Technologies, endowments and the latecomer effect
Collier, Paul; Venables, Tony - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
Africa is well endowed with potential for hydro and solar power, but its other endowments - shortages of capital … Africa closer to those in the rest of the world.  The international community can support by increasing Africa’s supply of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133080
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Aid versus Trade Revisited
Adam, Christopher; Stephen A O`Connell - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000
This paper examines the (non) equivalance between aid flows and trade preferences as alternative forms of donor assistance in the presence of learning-by-doing externalities in recipient country export production. Using a two-period model based on vanWijnbergen (1985), in which the productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605259
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Political Origins of Financial Structure
Bhattacharyya, Sambit - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011
to the event of becoming a democracy.  We find that democratization leads to a more market-based financial system … change on financial structure we estimate a separate model and find that democracy matters.  We also find that countries with … estimation, alternative measures of democracy and financial structure, and across different samples. …
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Media Freedom and Democracy: Complements or Substitutes in the Fight against Corruption?
Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Hodler, Roland - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
Democracy and media freedom have been suggested as useful tools in the fight against political corruption, but so far … corruption-reducing effect of democracy becomes stronger as media freedom increases. Using panel data covering the period 1980 … democracy and media freedom in the fight against corruption is also supported by Indian state level data.  …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004413
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Bribing Voters
Bo, Ernesto Dal - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000
, and payoff and information structures. We discuss implications for the efficiency of democracy, voting, lobbying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604871
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Bribing Voters.
Dal Bo, E. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000
, and payoff and information structures. We discuss implications for the efficiency of democracy, voting, lobbying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051078
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Scandal, Protection, and Recovery in Political Cabinets
Myatt, David P.; Dewan, Torun - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005
Empirical evidence suggests that a Prime Minister can benefit from firing ministers who are involved in political scandals. We explore a model in which a minister`s exposure to scandals is positvely related to his policy activism, so that a Prime Minister may wish to protect him from resignation...
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