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A curse of comparison? : Evidence on reference groups for relative income concerns
Kuegler, Alice - 2009
"This paper proposes that individuals care about the relative income of proximate reference groups. Making use of self-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a reference point for new sample data from Venezuela....
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Improving the Well-Being of Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries
World Bank - 2021
Adolescent girls are viewed as a key demographic group to target for successfully breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty in developing countries. Unfortunately, for many teenage girls in developing countries, adolescence entails a fleeting transition from childhood to adulthood,...
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Africa Development Indicators 2010: Silent and Lethal : How Quiet Corruption Undermines Africa's Development Efforts
World Bank - 2010
delivery and regulation has adverse long-term effects on households. The term "quiet corruption" is introduced to indicate … service provision) that do not involve monetary exchange. The prevalence of quiet corruption and its long-term consequences …
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Trends in corruption and regulatory burden : Eastern Europe and Central Asia
2011
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The puppet masters : how the corrupt use legal structures to hide stolen assets and what to do about it
Does de Willebois, Emile van der (contributor) - 2011
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Fighting corruption in public services : chronicling Georgia's reforms
2012
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Governance, corruption, and trade in the Asia Pacific region
Abe, Kazutomo - 2008
"This paper examines the impact of reducing corruption and improving transparency to lower trade costs in the Asia … corruption. Results suggest that trade in the region would increase by 11 percent and global welfare would expand by …
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Measuring corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia : a critique of the cross-country indicators
Knack, Stephen F. - 2006
"This paper assesses corruption levels and trends among countries in the transition countries of Eastern Europe and …. Data from firm surveys tend to show improvement in most types of administrative corruption, but little change in "state … capture" in the region. Broader, subjective corruption indicators tend to show somewhat greater improvement in ECA than in non …
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Corruption and decentralized public governance
Shah, Anwar - 2006
"This paper examines the conceptual and empirical basis of corruption and governance and concludes that decentralized … local governance is conducive to reduced corruption in the long run. This is because localization helps to break the … as a means to making government responsive and accountable to people can help reduce corruption and improve service …
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