, 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 …

the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation … immigrants did not have any effect on innovation. However, decomposing the overall effect into the contributions of low- and high … applications by about 0.2%. By contrast, the impact of high-skilled immigrants on innovation is positive, in line with the previous …