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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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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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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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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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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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Industrialization lessons from BRICS : a comparative analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - 2013

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …

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Speeding up the product cycle : the role of host country reforms

Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - 2011

quality played an important role in raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997 …. -- product cycle ; ownership structure ; contract environment ; export variety ; processing trade ; China …

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Investment liberalisation, technology take-off and export market entry : does foreign ownership structure matter?

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2015

Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As … positively to China's "science and technology take-off". …

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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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