"leakage" of funds between the government and beneficiaries in both NREGS and SSP programs. Beneficiaries overwhelmingly …

that could protect surplus (“security”). But the joint achievement of security and prosperity had to escape a paradox … conflict when defense capability is fixed, but may allow for security and prosperity when defense capability is endogenous …. Some economic shocks and military innovations deliver security and prosperity while others force societies back into a trap …

We document that trust in public institutions--and particularly trust in banks, business and government--has declined … the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …

Attempting to shed light on the optimal size of government, economists have analyzed planning problems that specify a … choice of a planner who knows the welfare achieved by each policy. This paper examines choice of size of government by a … a wide range of spending levels--thus, a society can rationalize having a small or large government. I conclude that to …

We construct measures of the extent to which the 4 main newspapers in Argentina report government corruption in their … government advertising. The correlation is negative. The size is considerable: a one standard deviation increase in monthly … government advertising (0.26 million pesos of 2000) is associated with a reduction in the coverage of the government's corruption …

reveals mixed evidence on the Surge's effect on key trends in Iraq. The security situation has improved insofar as violent …, other areas, such as oil production and the number of trained Iraqi Security Forces have shown no improvement or declined … state bonds, which the Iraqi government is currently servicing, on world financial markets. After the Surge, there was a …