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A new institutionalist analysis on emerging donorship : explaining the rise of the knowledge dimension in the South Korean aid regime
Yi, Jisun - 2015
the inside dynamics of an emerging donor government - pinpointing why aid bureaucracy stands at the centre of the rise of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283000
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How clientelism undermines state capacity : evidence from Mexican municipalities
De La O, Ana L. - 2021
Does clientelism perpetuate the weak state capacity that characterizes many young democracies? Prior work explains that clientelist parties skew public spending to private goods and under-supply public goods. Building on these insights, this article argues that clientelism creates a bureaucratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012666901
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Inequality, good governance and endemic corruption
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011805987
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Digging deeper into the state-democracy nexus : the role of civic participation in fostering impartial bureaucracy
Vaccaro, Andrea - 2023
attributes of democracy and state capacity-namely, civic participation and impartial bureaucracy-my study provides new evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014314738
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Sector, globalization and urban economic growth : evidence from Bangalore (India)
Narayana, M. R. - 2010
India, as they are related to ICT sector. Overall analyses offer new insights and evidences for ICT sector as a major … is remarkable compared to all-India level and OECD averages. These results offer empirical justification for continuing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662249
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China and India : country role models of development success?
Santos-Paulino, Amelia U. - 2010
The paper discusses views on China and India as country role models. In so doing the article recounts the economic and … jeopardize economic performance and development going forward, drawing lessons for other developing countries. -- China ; India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702830
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On the 'inclusiveness' of India's consumption expenditure growth
Jayaraj, Dhairiyarayar; Subramanian, Sreenivasan - 2012
India over the last four decades or so. The notion of dynamic inclusiveness is framed in terms of imagined normative …. The results of the investigation undertaken in the essay suggest distressingly little evidence of inclusiveness in India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545467
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The efficiency of states and cities : is there a case for public land leasing and sales to finance India's cities?
Sridhar, Kala Seetharam - 2011
fragmented in India's cities between the urban development authorities, which are state agencies, and the cities. To determine … examined taking the case of roads. -- land lease ; efficiency of cities ; India ; urban infrastructure finance ; stochastic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306524
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India's political economy responses to the global food price shock of 2007 - 08 : learning some lessons
Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015
India's policy responses to the food price crisis were strong. Exports of basic staples were banned. Domestic support … production by 20 MMT over the subsequent five years. The results: India contained food inflation below 7 per cent in 2007 … robust production and stock levels, rice exports surged when India freed up its exports in September 2011, making it a world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398821
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Gender and distributional preferences : experimental evidence from India
Sharma, Smriti - 2015
We conduct a lab experiment to assess whether gender of dictators and recipients, and distributional preferences affect allocations in a modified dictator game where both parties perform a cognitive task and the resulting pie to be split is the sum of both parties' earnings. Our key results are...
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