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The Right to Tell : The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development
World Bank - 2013
A free press is not a luxury. It is at the core of equitable development. The media can expose corruption. They can … governance and reform, and help build public consensus to bring about change. Such media help markets work better. They can … facilitate trade, transmitting ideas and innovation across boundaries. The media are also important for human development …
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Public sentinel : news media & governance reform
Norris, Pippa (contributor) - 2009
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Decentralization and Local Democracy in the World : First Global Report by United Cities and Local Governments 2008
World Bank - 2012
This overall picture of decentralization and local democracy in African countries shows significant progress at the …
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Democratic Governance in Mexico : Beyond State Capture and Social Polarization
World Bank - 2012
Mexico is in the midst of a transition. The defeat of the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) in the 2000 presidential election marked a watershed, and with the repeated defeat of the PRI in the 2006 election, the era of the single?party dominance appears to be long gone. The demise of the...
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Decentralization, democracy, and development : recent experience from Sierra Leone
Zhou, Yongmei (contributor) - 2009
. The most critical ingredient for this reform process is the leadership team in charge of promoting the new institutional …
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Political institutions and human development : Does democracy fulfil its 'constructive' and 'instrumental' role?
Vollmer, Sebastian - 2009
performance of democracy is rather independent of the circumstances. However, democracy leads to more redistribution in favor of …
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Democracy and reforms
Amin, Mohammad - 2009
"The authors use a sample of 147 countries to investigate the link between democracy and reforms. Democracy may be … economic institutions. The results provide robust support for the claim that democracy is good for growth-enhancing reforms …
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Governance in the gullies : democratic responsiveness and leadership in Delhi's slums
Jha, Saumitra - 2005
informal modes of leadership. While ethnically homogeneous slums transplant rural institutions to the city, newer and …
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Democratization and clientelism : why are young democracies badly governed?
Keefer, Philip - 2005
"This paper identifies systematic performance differences between younger and older democracies: younger democracies are more corrupt; exhibit less rule of law, lower levels of bureaucratic quality, and lower secondary school enrollments; and spend more on public investment and government...
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Democracy, credibility, and clientelism
Keefer, Philip - 2005
"Keefer and Vlaicu demonstrate that sharply different policy choices across democracies can be explained as a consequence of differences in the ability of political competitors to make credible pre-electoral commitments to voters. Politicians can overcome their credibility deficit in two ways....
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