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Population Density, Optimal Infrastructure and Economic Growth
Deole, Sumit S. - 2015
transportation infrastructure on economic growth. The study argues that there is an optimal distribution of infrastructure in the … the population induced productivity improvements and provision of optimal infrastructure in the region will form the two … data for years 1961-2012 on India, the study examines the role of dense population and transportation infrastructure on …
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The Business Environment in the Transition
Carlin, Wendy - 2012
faced and their business environment. The business environment includes physical infrastructure, the availability of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100506
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Budget Institutions and Government Effectiveness
Dahan, Momi - 2017
effects. We show that less centralized countries display significant better performance in health and infrastructure but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965640
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Ethnic Fractionalization, Governance and Loan Defaults in Africa
Andrianova, Svetlana - 2014
We present a theoretical model of moral hazard and adverse selection in an imperfectly competitive loans market that is suitable for application to Africa. The model allows for variation in both the level of contract enforcement (depending on the quality of governance) and the degree of market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044553
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Does Corruption Erode Trust in Government? Evidence from a Recent Surge of Local Scandals in Spain
Sole-Olle, Albert - 2014
We examine whether a corruption scandal in which the incumbent is implicated undermines trust in local government. We use a novel dataset containing information on local corruption scandals reported in Spain during the period 1999-2009, and data on the level of trust expressed in local...
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Government Decentralization and International Government Performance
Goel, Rajeev K. - 2016
Adding to the literature on the effects of government decentralization, this paper uses a large sample of individual responses from more than a hundred countries about public's perceptions of government's performance along various dimensions to study the relative influences of different types of...
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The Interrelationship between Formal and Informal Decentralization and its Impact on Sub-Central Governance Performance : The Case of Vietnam
Vu, Thanh Thuy - 2012
Formal and informal institutions are often viewed as complements or substitutes in empirical and theoretical works. However, no evidence of complementarities or substitutes is found in our empirical analysis of the interrelation between formal and informal decentralization across 64 provinces of...
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Globalization and the (Mis)Governance of Nations
Blouin, Arthur - 2013
We analyze whether or not the globalization of capital, ‘disciplines' governments and improves governance. We demonstrate that globalization affects governance, by increasing a country's vulnerability to sudden capital flight. This increased threat of capital flight can discipline governments...
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The Historical Roots of Corruption and Economic Development in Italy
Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2021
We claim that a sequential mechanism linking history to development exists: first, history defines the quality of social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces,...
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Moral Hazard and the Composition of Transfers : Theory With an Application to Foreign Aid
Amegashie, J. Atsu; Ouattara, Bazoumana; Strobl, Eric - 2021
The paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of a donor's choice of the composition of unrestricted and in-kind/restricted transfers to a recipient and how this composition is adjusted in response to changes in the moral hazard behavior of the recipient. In-kind or restricted...
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