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Governance Indicators : Where Are We, Where Should We Be Going?
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart - 2012
Scholars, policymakers, aid donors, and aid recipients acknowledge the importance of good governance for development. This understanding has spurred an intense interest in more refined, nuanced, and policy-relevant indicators of governance. In this paper we review progress to date in the area of...
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Fiscal management of scaled-up aid
Gupta, Sanjeev; Schwartz, Gerd; Tareq, Shamsuddin; … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003567015
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Strengthening Local Government Budgeting and Accountability
Schaeffer, Michael; Yilmaz, Serdar - 2012
In many developing and middle-income countries, decentralization reforms are promoting changes in governance structures that are reshaping the relationship between local governments and citizens. The success of these decentralization reforms depends on the existence of sound public financial...
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External debt histories of ten low-income developing countries : lessons from their experience
Brooks, Ray; Cortes, Mariano; Fornessari, Francesca; … - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000991670
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How "Natural" are Natural Monopolies in the Water Supply and Sewerage Sector? Case Studies from Developing and Transition Economies
Nauges, C??line; Berg, Caroline H. van den - 2012
economies in the water industry in four countries (Brazil, Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam) that differ substantially in economic … find evidence of economies of scale in Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam, implying the existence of a natural monopoly. In … customer density in Moldova and Vietnam. The results of this study show that the cost structure of the water and wastewater …
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Health Insurance Impacts on Health and Nonmedical Consumption in a Developing Country
Wagstaff, Adam; Pradhan, Menno - 2012
The authors examine the effects of the introduction of Vietnam's health insurance (VHI) program on health outcomes … biases due to inappropriate specification of the outcome regression model. The authors' results suggest that Vietnam's health …
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On the long and short of central bank independence, policy coordination, and economic performance
Musalem Borrero, Alberto - 2001
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What transparency can do when incentives fail : an analysis of rent capture
Dabla-Norris, Era; Paul, Elisabeth - 2006
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How Relevant Is Infrastructure to Growth in East Asia?
Seethepalli, Kalpana; Bramati, Maria Caterina; Veredas, … - 2012
This paper seeks to shed some light on the extent to which infrastructure sub-sectors - energy, telecommunications, water supply, sanitation, and transport - contributed to growth in East Asia during 1985-2004. It also attempts to provide additional insights on whether the relationship between...
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Does "Good Government" Draw Foreign Capital? Explaining China's Exceptional Foreign Direct Investment Inflow
Fan, Joseph P. H.; Morck, Randall; Xu, Lixin Colin - 2012
China is now the world's largest destination of foreign direct investment (FDI), despite assessments highlighting its institutional deficiencies. But this FDI inflow corresponds closely to predicted FDI flows into China from a model that predicts FDI inflow based on government quality indicators...
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