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Building state capacity is uniquely challenging in fragile states. We report results from a randomized evaluation of a major Afghan government initiative to increase capacity by modernizing its payroll. The reform, which required teachers to biometrically register and receive salary payments via...
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Young People in Egypt (HSYPE). Difference-in-difference estimations show that the revolution significantly decreased the …
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This paper investigates the key factors affecting household energy expenditure in Egypt. Based upon the latest 2015 … Egypt are mainly due to variations in income, household size, and housing type. Our findings document substantial … policy implications regarding residential energy efficiency and carbon emissions reduction in Egypt …
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This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on …
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The paper analyzes the relation between institutional quality, such as corruption, in a country and its monetary regime …. It is shown that a credibly fixed exchange rate to a low inflation country, like a currency board, can reduce corruption … countries with regard to the level of corruption. …
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hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular kind of crime, namely corruption. In order to test it, it was … show that de facto independence of prosecution agencies robustly reduces corruption of officials. …
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in US states may indeed reduce corruption levels among elected representatives. …
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Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …
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The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … that the devolution of power might be a feasible instrument to keep corruption at bay. We argue that this result crucially …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the …
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This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy. …
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