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Governance and public service delivery in India
Afridi, Farzana - 2017
Citizens in low income democracies depend, to a large extent, on the state for the provision of basic services either due to absence of a market for these services or poverty. This paper synthesizes the findings of the International Growth Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public...
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Enlightenment ideals and belief in progress in the run-up to the Industrial Revolution : a textual analysis
Almelhem, Ali; Iyigun, Murat; Kennedy, Austin; Rubin, Jared - 2023
Using textual analysis of 173,031 works printed in England between 1500 and 1900, we test whether British culture evolved to manifest a heightened belief in progress associated with science and industry. Our analysis yields three main findings. First, there was a separation in the language of...
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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. -- Economics ; happiness ; life …
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Education, governance and trade-related technology diffusion in Latin America
Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor); Wang, Yanling (contributor) - 2004
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Prospective NATO or EU membership and institutional change in transition countries
Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009
This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...
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Women political leaders, corruption and learning : evidence from a large public program in India
Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard; Sharan, M. R. - 2013
We use the nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India. Using primary survey data, we find more program...
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Sluggish institutions in a dynamic world : can unions and industrial competition coexist?
Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor) - 2007
During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...
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Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017
Governments do not have perfect information regarding constituent priorities and needs. This lack of knowledge opens the door for groups to lobby in order to affect the government's taxation levels. We examine the political economy of decentralized revenue-raising authority in light of social...
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Making aid work : governance and decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
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