We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical … infrastructure that was designed in the 1930s. The actual speed of an Internet connection, in fact, rapidly decays with the distance … Internet caused a significant decline in forms of offline interaction and civic engagement. Overall, our results suggest that …

, and input-output relations in the South. The main findings are: (i) Education and governance raise the level of TFP … directly; and (ii) education and governance also raise TFP through their interaction with foreign R&D in R …) that taking into account the interaction effects between trade, education and governance by reforming the policies …

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for … in terms of achieving good governance, and to the recipients in terms of what they receive. The leaders of potential … receiving countries prefer that each country obtains the proportion of aid relative to its governance quality. If poverty …

designed to capture the population's desire for better governance. Using data from a tailored household survey, we examine the … those who emigrated to countries with better governance. …

the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 …

governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher …

, and/or the bureaucratic necessity of laying claim to having the bigger impact. The idea here is that good governance … argument for establishing good governance criteria is as much to put constraints on donor behavior as on the necessity of …

This paper examines the impact of education, trade, governance and distance on technology diffusion and TFP in Latin …–2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with education, trade, governance (ETG) and trade's R&D content, and falls with distance to the … (closest) North; ii) the East Asia – SAM education gap's impact equals that of trade plus governance; iii) an increase in SAM …