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, and input-output relations in the South. The main findings are: (i) Education and governance raise the level of TFP … directly; and (ii) education and governance also raise TFP through their interaction with foreign R&D in R …) that taking into account the interaction effects between trade, education and governance by reforming the policies …
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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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the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 …
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governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher …
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, and/or the bureaucratic necessity of laying claim to having the bigger impact. The idea here is that good governance … argument for establishing good governance criteria is as much to put constraints on donor behavior as on the necessity of …
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We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for … in terms of achieving good governance, and to the recipients in terms of what they receive. The leaders of potential … receiving countries prefer that each country obtains the proportion of aid relative to its governance quality. If poverty …
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designed to capture the population’s desire for better governance. Using data from a tailored household survey, we examine the … those who emigrated to countries with better governance. …
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Most conceptualisations of the bottom billion assume that "the poor" are a minority group in a state of continuous dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately...
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Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most prominent ones. We analyze the retirement decision of Belgian...
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The paper studies retirement behavior of wage‐earners in Belgium – for the first time using rich survey data to explore retirement incentives as faced by individuals. Specifically, we use SHARE data to estimate a model à la Stock and Wise (1990). Exploring the longitudinal nature of...
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