the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 … we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and NATO clearly matter for institutional development. In addition …

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. …

, 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 …

by high inequality and poverty, a useful tool for the government to pacify social unrest, is to choose a lower level of … governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher …

, 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 …

receiving countries prefer that each country obtains the proportion of aid relative to its governance quality. If poverty … reduction is an independent goal as well, a poverty trap may be created. With good governance as a criterion, donors may work …We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for …

dynamic viewpoint by examining the impact of trade with Japan, North America and the EU on technology diffusion and TFP in … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version …