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Health aid, governance and infant mortality

Doucouliagos, Chris; Hennessy, Jack; Mallick, Debdulal - 2019

We investigate the impact of health aid on infant mortality conditional on the quality of governance in 96 recipient countries. Our analysis applies the long difference estimator and instrumental variable estimation, with aid instrumented by donor government fractionalization interacted with the...

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Do migrants improve governance at home? : evidence from a voting experiment

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2010

This paper tests the hypothesis that international migration experiences may promote better institutions at home by raising the demand for political accountability. In order to examine this question, we use a simple postcard voting experiment designed to capture the population’s desire for...

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Motivating politicians : the impacts of monetary incentives on quality and performance

Ferraz, Claudio (contributor); … - 2008

Recent studies have emphasized the importance of the quality of politicians for good government and consequently economic performance. But if the quality of leadership matters, then understanding what motivates individuals to become politicians and perform competently in office becomes a central...

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North-South trade-related technology diffusion : virtuous growth cycles in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2010

This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...

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Good governance and good aid allocation

Epstein, Gil S. (contributor); Gang, Ira N. (contributor) - 2008

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...

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Inequality, good governance and endemic corruption

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017

Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? We examine a stylized poor state with weak institutions in which a "culture of evasion" damages state authority. Many evade tax payments, limiting the state's economic development...

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Can you teach old dragons new tricks? : FDI and innovation activity in Chinese state-owned enterprises

Girma, Sourafel (contributor); Gong, Yundan (contributor); … - 2006

. -- Innovation ; FDI ; state owned enterprises ; spillovers ; competition ; China …

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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China

Fleisher, Belton M. (contributor); Li, Haizheng (contributor) - 2007

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …

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Interprovincial migration in China : the effects of investment and migrant networks

Bao, Shuming; Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W.; Zhao, … - 2007

Since the 1980s, China's government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth … China, especially during the 1990s. However, other important economic and socio-political determinants of interprovincial … gravity model of interprovincial migration in China that includes as explanatory variables: migrant networks in the …

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Employment effects of privatisation and foreign acquisition of Chinese state-owned enterprises

Gong, Yundan (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor); … - 2006

(SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination of propensity score matching and difference …

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