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The poverty reduction capacity of private and public transfers in transition

Verme, Paolo - 2010

The transitional economies of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) have enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth and poverty … households. The paper assesses the relative importance of these transfers for welfare and poverty in Moldova, the poorest country … effective in improving welfare and reducing poverty whereas social assistance transfers have little or no effect. Social …

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Inequality, good governance and endemic corruption

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017

Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? We examine a stylized poor state with weak institutions in which a "culture of evasion" damages state authority. Many evade tax payments, limiting the state's economic development...

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Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017

. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

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Decentralizing aid with interested parties

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2006

This paper analyzes the decentralization of decision-making in aid-giving in a theoretical rent-seeking framework. In …, fashionable aid procedures will lead to the development of a poverty trap. …

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The hope for hysteresis in foreign aid

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2006

We argue that a purpose of foreign aid is to whet the appetite of the recipient in order to bring about a long term commitment to what the donor perceives as a need, but which the recipient may rank lower down on his list of undertakings, or may be sufficiently resource constrained as to be...

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Making aid work: Governance and decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014

Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...

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Making aid work: Governance and decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015

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Did a successful fight against COVID-19 come at a cost? : impacts of the pandemic on employment outcomes in Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Cuong Viet Nguyen; Carletto, Calogero - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 161 (2023), pp. 1-52

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Childcare and maternal employment : evidence from Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Hiraga, Masako; Cuong Viet Nguyen - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 159 (2022), pp. 1-17

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Group specific public goods, orchestration of interest groups and free riding

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - 2009

We consider a two group contest over a group specific public good where each member of a group has a different benefit from the good. Our model can be interpreted in two ways: Each of the players has a non-linear investment cost in the contest, or alternatively, the returns to effort are...

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