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The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small...
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Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: 'how do governments become great?'....
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Almost all major development institutions today say that promoting good governance is an important part of their agendas. Despite this consensus, 'good governance' is an extremely elusive objective: it means different things to different organizations and to different actors within these...
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Institution-building in Somalia has met with high levels of failure for two decades. But successes have occurred in other Somali-inhabited regions of the eastern Horn, and have been especially present at the local and municipal level. The most effective aid to institution-building in Somalia has...
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state to establish and implement policies reflecting good governance; for example, a government that is accountable and … appropriate level of enforcing proper payments of taxes due. The government needs to design an effective tax administration policy …
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This paper empirically investigates the link between the level of government revenue per capita and six indicators of … strong effect over time whereby an increase in government revenue leads to a steady improvement in governance. These findings … suggest an important virtuous circle between government revenue and governance, indicating that additional government revenue …
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This paper explores the link between trust in government, policy-making, and compliance. It focuses on a specific … reduces the government's cost of implementing a policy and may also increase the set of feasible policies. Thus, state … capacity is greater when citizens trust their government. The paper discusses alternative approaches to modelling the origins …
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evidence that raising the share of women politicians has substantive impacts on the composition of government spending, there …
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limitations of the method. -- experimental methods ; government performance ; ancillary experiments ; downstream experiments …
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We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that incorporates climate uncertainty and allows...
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