when the government is more stable. Corruption is associated with less spending in developing countries, but with more … corruption are fundamental to improving the capacity of developing countries to scale up GHE, and to increasing the efficiency of … stronger monitoring mechanisms for corruption. Delivering aid through NGOs may be an option in countries with high ethnic …

performance of democracy is rather independent of the circumstances. However, democracy leads to more redistribution in favor of …

Agricultural production is heavily dependent on water availability in Turkey, where half the crop production relies on … availability. This study analyzes the likely effects of increased competition for water resources and changes in the Turkish …

have already shown the existence of a positive relationship between competition and economic performance, the novelty of … the increased entry threat by foreign competitors, on the other side, enhanced competition curtails expected profits and … results are particularly important for policy makers because they suggest that while increasing competition may be good in …

, Pakistan, Yemen, and the Kyrgyz Republic. …

This paper assesses the link between democracy and inequality. Inequality is measured at the cohort level with pseudo …-panel data built from nine Latin American countries'household surveys (1995-2009, biannual). Democracy is measured as a stock …-run historical patterns in the degree of democracy relate to income inequality. However, this relationship is non …