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Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia
Yanez-Pagans, Monica - 2012
This paper examines bureaucratic delay within the allocation of small infrastructure projects by sub … about the processing of small infrastructure projects requests by sub-municipal governments. The objective of this …, and monitoring small infrastructure project allocations. Second, is to explicitly alter the probability of detecting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104056
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Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods : Long Run Evidence from Tanzania
Michaels, Guy - 2017
What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build …, half of which provided infrastructure in previously unpopulated areas (de novo neighborhoods), while the other half …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946590
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Infrastructure Grants and the Performance of Microenterprises
Chaurey, Ritam - 2018
We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912259
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Financial Constraints and Innovation : Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015
This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039087
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The Effects of Development on Migration : Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence
Vogler, Michael; Rotte, Ralph - 2021
Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321393
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Brain Drain in Globalization : A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective
Marchiori, Luca - 2013
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095832
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Where Are the Real Bottlenecks?Evidence from 20,000 Firms in 60 Countries aboutthe Shadow Costs of Constraints to Firm Performance
Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark; Seabright, Paul - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We use data from over 20,000 firms in 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth offirms. We interpret managers´ answers to survey questions on the extent to which variousaspects of their external environment inhibit the performance of their firm as measuring theshadow cost of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861835
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Norms, Culture and Local Infrastructure : Evidence from a Decentralised Economy
Pal, Sarmistha - 2010
Culture as reflected in social and religious norms may be pivotal to social organization in a decentralised economy where local authorities are responsible for the provision of local public goods. We distinguish between individualist and collectivist cultures to argue that collectivist culture...
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Capital Fundamentalism and Structural Transformation
Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher Robert; Rammohan, Anu - 2021
We revisit the role of Capital Fundamentalism, in the context of the Government of Indonesia's Inpres Desa Tertinggal (IDT or Left Behind Village) Program, which injected capital into poor village economies. We evaluate the impact of the program on village welfare and structural transformation...
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Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms : Comment
Malgouyres, Clément; Mayer, Thierry; Mazet-Sonilhac, … - 2023
Suárez Serrato and Zidar (2016) identify state corporate tax incidence in a spatial equilibrium model with imperfectly mobile firms. Their identification argument rests on comparative-statics omitting a channel implied by their model: the link between common determinants of a location's...
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