The Government has launched a reform-linked urban investment programme, JNNURM. The paper has analysed urban trends … India’s future strategy should focus on: (a) inter-government transfers with built-in incentives to improve performance; (b …

incompatible spatial references. There is great heterogeneity across spatial units being used by different urban government …

basic idea is to encapsulate the economic representative power of a nation’s government in the international arena in as … sources is used. The index is composed of four variables: government revenues, foreign currency reserves, export of goods and …:[http://finmin.nic.in/WorkingPaper/Index%20of%20Government%20Economic%20Power.pdf]. …

This paper examines various measures of synchronization of recessions, including clustering of the onset of recession …

predictive of corrupt behavior by real government workers, implying that this measure captures a meaningful propensity towards … to enter the government, while outcomes on explicit, two-player games to measure cheating and attitudinal measures of …

Government corruption is more prevalent in poor countries than in rich countries. This paper uses cross …