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O. Toole, Conor M.; Tarp, Finn - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

This paper considers the effect of corruption on the effciency of capital investment. Using firm-level level data from …

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Aid and Rent-Driven Growth: Mauritania, Kenya and Mozambique Compared

Auty, Richard M. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

(corruption, a poor policy environment and Dutch disease effects) are all symptoms of the destabilizing impact of rent streams on …This paper conceptualises foreign aid as a geopolitical form of rent in order to help distinguish the conditions under … resource rent and contrived (i.e., government monopoly) rent the property of being a large revenue stream that is detached from …

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Decentralizing Aid with Interested Parties

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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Transaction Cost Politics, Institutions for Commitment and Rent Seeking

Murshed, S. Mansoob - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2001

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From the Grabbing Hand to the Helping Hand: A Rent Seeking Model of China's Township-Village Enterprises

Che, Jiahua - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2002

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A Model of Destructive Entrepreneurship

Desai; Sameeksha; Acs; Zoltan; Weitzel; Utz - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

The current research on entrepreneurship as an economic phenomenon often assumes its desirability as a driver of economic development and growth. However, entrepreneurial talent can be allocated among productive, unproductive, and destructive activities. This process is theorized as driven by...

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Beyond Electoral Democracy: Foreign Aid and the Challenge of Deepening Democracy in Benin

Gazibo, Mamoudou - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

In the 1990s, analysts were almost unanimous in considering Benin to be one of the most important aid recipients among the newly democratizing African countries. After more than two decades of democratic practice, the country has clearly completed the pha

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Political Clientelism and Capture: Theory and Evidence from West Bengal, India

Bardhan, Pranab; Mookherjee, Dilip - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

We provide a theory of political clientelism, which explains sources and determinants of political clientelism, the relationship between clientelism and elite capture, and their respective consequences for allocation of public services, welfare, and empir

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Fuelling War or Buying Peace: The Role of Corruption in Conflicts

Le Billon, Philippe - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2001

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Incentive Structure, Civil Service Efficiency and the Hidden Economy in Nigeria

Salisu, Mohammed - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2001

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