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Does conditionality work? : a test for an innovative US aid scheme
Öhler, Hannes; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - 2011
Corporation (MCC) was successful in promoting better control of corruption. We employ a difference … corruption over time. -- foreign aid ; corruption ; Millennium Challenge Corporation ; MCC effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127656
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Aid, growth and devolution
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2009
This paper examines whether the federal structure of aid-receiving countries matters in explaining aid effectiveness. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision-makers are better informed about local needs. At the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887528
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Corruption and access to socio-economic services in Africa
Freytag, Andreas; Riaz, Muhammad Faraz - 2021
Corruption is one of the world’s most widespread political problems. It can be found on international, national and sub … a micro level measure of corruption based on the personal experiences of individuals, which realistically represents the … African countries that contains information of more than 50,000 citizens. Corruption is found being negatively correlated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012428971
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Does female empowerment promote economic development?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2014
necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250142
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Tax sparing, FDI, and foreign aid : evidence from territorial tax reforms
Azémar, Céline; Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2016
The governments of many developing countries seek to attract inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) through the use of tax incentives for multinational corporations (MNCs). The effectiveness of these tax incentives depends crucially on MNCs' residence country tax regime, especially where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457988
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Institutions, trade and development : a quantitative analysis
Beverelli, Cosimo; Keck, Alexander; Larch, Mario; … - 2018
We propose and apply methods to quantify the impact of national institutions on international trade and development. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800710
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Top lights : bright cities and their contribution to economic development
Bluhm, Richard; Krause, Melanie - 2018
The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951641
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Cross-border patenting, globalization, and development
LaBelle, Jesse; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2023
development. Our theory delivers a gravity equation for cross-border patents. To test the model's predictions, we compile a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444894
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Resource rents, democracy and corruption : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Arezki, Rabah; Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2011
We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub …-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is … suggest that the mechanisms through which resource rents affect corruption cannot be separated from political systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301201
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Economic geography and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bosker, Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2008
then assess the relevance of market access for economic development. In doing so, we explicitly distinguish between the … future economic development. -- Sub Saharan Africa ; economic development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803503