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The paper studies the market failures associated with land tenure insecurity and information asymmetry in an urban land use model, and analyzes households' responses to mitigate tenure insecurity. When buyers and sellers of land plots can pair along trusted kinship lines whereby deception (the...
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Using panel data for 189 economies from 2005 to 2013, this paper shows that business-friendly regulations are correlated with the poverty headcount at the country level. This association is significant using the World Bank's Doing Business indicators on getting credit and contract enforcement....
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Despite the literature on rural land property rights, studies on urban land property rights are rare. This paper studies the impact of an urban land titling program on firm investment. It finds that the program leads to increased investment rate for titling firms, and the positive effect holds...
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disparate actions of political parties and sector institutions. Ambitious targets for electricity access, liberalization, and …
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.0 percent over the next three decades, following the country's transition to high income in 2024 (which might be delayed due to …
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A growing body of work has shown that the quality of national institutions that enforce written contracts plays an … margin than the extensive margin of exporting. In addition, better contracting institutions increase the probability of … developing countries that seek to boost export growth but many of which suffer from poor contracting institutions …
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adoption of two different types of participatory governance institutions influences municipal tax collection in Brazil …. Municipalities that voluntarily adopt participatory institutions collect significantly higher levels of taxes than similar … municipalities without these institutions. The paper provides evidence that moves scholarship on tax compliance beyond enforcement …
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To what extent does immigration affect the economic institutions in destination countries? While there is much evidence … that economic institutions in developed nations are either unaffected or improved after immigration, there is little … evidence of how immigration affects the economic institutions of developing countries that typically have weaker institutions …
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