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Francis, David - 2019

New representative survey data for Harare, Zimbabwe are used to analyze the conditions under which informal businesses encounter requests for bribes. A simple model develops basic expectations of bribe exposure: those with higher opportunity costs of formalizing and with a higher ability to pay...

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Elite capture of foreign aid : evidence from offshore bank accounts

Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Johannesen, Niels; Rijkers, Bob - 2020

Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank secrecy and private wealth management, but not in other financial centers. The estimates are...

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Uncertainty as a factor in investment decisions : the case of the Russian Federation's regions

Levina, Irina A.; Kisunko, Gregory V.; Marques, Israel I.; … - 2016

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Governors and governing institutions : a comparative study of state-business relations in Russia's regions

Sharafutdinova, Gulnaz; Kisunko, Gregory - 2014

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Glass barriers : constraints to women's small-scale cross-border trade in Cambodia and Lao PDR

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Cabinet size and governance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Wehner, Joachim; Mills, Linnea - 2020

. Scholarship on elite clientelism links cabinet positions with corruption and practices that undermine sound policy making. This … measures of governance. The associations are robust in a regression framework that exploits within-country variation over time … simplistic policy prescriptions, a sizable increase in the number of ministers is likely bad news for governance …

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