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Donor Contracting Conditions and Public Procurement : Causal Evidence from Kenyan Electrification
Wolfram, Catherine D.; Miguel, Edward; Hsu, Eric; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
contracts while the World Bank (WB) employed unbundled contracts together with strengthened inspections. To measure impacts, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226145
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Detecting Fraud in Development Aid
Ensminger, Jean Evelyn; Leder-Luis, Jetson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We apply this method to a World Bank development project in Kenya. Our evidence is consistent with higher levels of … validated by qualitative data and a forensic audit conducted by the World Bank. We produce simulations that demonstrate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477260
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Who Holds Sovereign Debt and Why It Matters
Fang, Xiang; Hardy, Bryan; Lewis, Karen K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies the impact of investor composition on the sovereign debt market and the implied funding costs to borrowers. We construct an aggregate data set of sovereign debt holdings by foreign and domestic bank, non-bank private, and official investors for 95 countries over twenty years....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210115
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Government Distortion in Independently Owned Media : Evidence from U.S. Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights
Qian, Nancy - 2010
in a country's strategic value to the U.S. from the interaction of its political alliance to the U.S. and membership on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462913
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Instruments of development : Randomization in the tropics, and the search for the elusive keys to economic development
Deaton, Angus S. - 2009
There is currently much debate about the effectiveness of foreign aid and about what kind of projects can engender economic development. There is skepticism about the ability of econometric analysis to resolve these issues, or of development agencies to learn from their own experience. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463957
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Why is there Multilateral Lending?
Rodrik, Dani - 1995
Why should multilateral lending exist in a world where private capital markets are well developed and governments have … their own bilateral aid programs? If lending by the World Bank, IMF, and regional development banks has an independent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473722
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The Global Dollar Cycle
Obstfeld, Maurice; Zhou, Haonan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
cyclical pattern. Over that cycle, world asset prices, leverage, and capital flows move in concert with global growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247924
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Meritocracy across Countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528414
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The Micro and Macro Productivity of Nations
Ayerst, Stephen; Nguyen, Duc; Restuccia, Diego - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine aggregate productivity differences across nations using cross-country firm-level data and a quantitative model of production heterogeneity with distortions featuring operation decisions (selection) and productivity-enhancing investments (technology). Empirically, less developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635713
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Does the WTO Make Trade More Stable?
Rose, Andrew K. - 2004
I examine the hypothesis that membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General …/WTO membership on the coefficient of variation in trade computed over 25-year samples, controlling for a number of factors. I also … use a comparable multilateral data set. There is little evidence that membership in the GATT/WTO has a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468487