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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
-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104056
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Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis
Dreher, Axel - 2009
decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158510
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Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government : Evidence from Swiss Cantons
Barankay, Iwan; Lockwood, Ben - 2021
Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of … expenditure decentralization and the productive efficiency of government using a data-set of Swiss cantons. We first provide … careful evidence that expenditure decentralization is a powerful proxy for legal local autonomy. Further panel regressions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317305
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Does Workfare Work Well? The Case of the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest in Bangladesh
Cho, Yoonyoung - 2018
Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the relatively well-established role of public works during economic crisis as a social safety net. This paper contributes to evidence building by examining the impact of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920446
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Identifying the Poor - Accounting for Household Economies of Scale in Global Poverty Estimates
Jolliffe, Dean; Tetteh-Baah, Samuel - 2022
Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in international development dialogue and policy. An assumption underpinning these poverty counts is that there are no economies of scale in household size a family of six needs three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244242
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Estimating the Impacts of Bolivia's Protected Areas on Poverty
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo J. - 2012
proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has prompted interest in understanding their impacts on … poverty. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data from Bolivia we find that municipalities with at least 10% of their … that Bolivia's protected areas were associated with poverty reduction are similar to previous studies, our underlying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110507
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Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Health Interventions : Evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program
Rocha, Romero - 2009
This paper analyzes the direct and indirect impacts of Brazil's Family Health Program. We estimate the effects of the program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We find consistent effects of the program on reductions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763930
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The Transmission of Democracy : From the Village to the Nation-State
Giuliano, Paola - 2013
We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087428
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Initial Conditions Matter : Social Capital and Participatory Development
Cameron, Lisa A. - 2015
Billions of dollars have been spent on participatory development programs in the developing world. These programs give community members an active decision-making role. Given the emphasis on community involvement, one might expect that the effectiveness of this approach would depend on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009503
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Why Pay NGOs to Involve the Community?
Burger, Ronelle - 2014
We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to NGOs to increase community participation. We show that, when such incentives are provided, there need not exist any meaningful relationship between beneficiary welfare and the extent of community participation implemented by an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056249