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Governance and public service delivery in India
Afridi, Farzana - 2017
incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported …Citizens in low income democracies depend, to a large extent, on the state for the provision of basic services either … Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public service delivery in India. Existing research suggests that the …
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German financial state aid during COVID-19 pandemic : higher impact among digitalized self-employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
more from the state aid compared to those whose businesses were less digitalized. This holds true only for those self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414371
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Prospective NATO or EU membership and institutional change in transition countries
Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009
the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 … institutional development. -- EU ; NATO ; transition economies ; institutional change ; governance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903298
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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 … in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm to one of constrained managerial discretion. In competitive and … evolving nonunion governance norms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591477
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Decentralization and the productive efficiency of government : evidence from Swiss cantons
Barankay, Iwan (contributor); Lockwood, Ben (contributor) - 2006
Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of government services. This paper is one of the first to evaluate this claim empirically by looking at the association between expenditure decentralization and the productive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003504673
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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
female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in … panel of audit reports, governance improves as female leaders accumulate experience. These results suggest that female … political leadership may generate gains in governance but only after the initial, gendered disadvantages recede. Our findings …
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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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Inequality, institutions and cooperation
Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020
We examine the effects of randomly introduced economic inequality on voluntary co- operation and whether this relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large-scale lab-in-the-field public goods experiment with...
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Eastern enlargement and EU-labour markets : perceptions, challenges and opportunities
Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2001
This paper summarises the key findings of a recent study on the impact of Eastern Enlargement of the European Union (EU) on labour markets in the current Member States. The study focuses on three main channels, along which enlargement may affect labour markets in the EU, namely i) trade, ii)...
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Norwegian rhapsody? : the political economy benefits of regional integration
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Moretti, Luigi - 2015
This paper investigates whether joint economic and political integration leads to larger economic benefits than just economic integration. The identification strategy rests on the fact that Norway, at the time of the 1995 Enlargement of the European Union (EU), had successfully completed...
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