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Clientelism, public goods provision, and governance
Lo Bue, Maria C.; Sen, Kunal; Lindberg, Staffan I. - 2021
, increased political corruption, and weaker rule of law. We also find that the deleterious effects of political clientelism are …
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The corruption-growth relationship : do political institutions matter?
Saha, Shrabani; Sen, Kunal - 2019
Corruption is widely believed to negatively affect economic growth. However, many East and Southeast Asia countries … either achieved or currently are achieving impressively rapid economic growth despite widespread corruption - the 'East Asian … of political institutions in mediating the corruption-growth relationship using panel data over one hundred countries for …
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Optimal taxation and public provision for poverty reduction
Kanbur, Ravi; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tuomala, Matti; Ylinen, … - 2015
The existing literature on optimal taxation typically assumes there exists a capacity to implement complex tax schemes, which is not necessarily the case for many developing countries. We examine the determinants of optimal redistributive policies in the context of a developing country that can...
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Public and private expenditures on human capital accumulation in India
Ghate, Chetan; Glomm, Gerhard; Stone, John T. - 2015
We study a model of human capital driven growth, where the parent's human capital serves as a productive input in the child's human capital production only when that of the former exceeds a minimum level required to intellectually contribute to the child's learning. Private and public...
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Residual capacity and the political economy of pandemic response in Ghana
Asante, Kofi Takyi - 2022
On the whole, poor countries in Africa and elsewhere seem to have weathered the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19) pandemic better than wealthier countries with superior healthcare systems. Using the Ghanaian case, this paper draws on newspaper articles, policy statements, and other secondary...
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Promoting education under distortionary taxation : equality of opportunity versus welfarism
Haaparanta, Pertti; Kanbur, Ravi; Paukkeri, Tuuli; … - 2019
How does the public provision of education and the deployment of distortionary tax and subsidy instruments differ when the government's objective is conventional welfarist compared to when the objective is the non-welfarist one of equality of opportunity? This paper develops a framework in which...
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Can a wage subsidy system help reduce 50 per cent youth unemployment? : evidence from South Africa
Ebrahim, Amina; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2019
The paper examines the incidence and employment impacts of the Employment Tax Incentive, a South African wage subsidy system that is targeted at the employers of low-wage youth. The paper uses a triple differences strategy and survey and administrative data, covering the universe of South...
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Clientelistic politics and pro-poor targeting : rules versus discretionary budgets
Mookherjee, Dilip; Nath, Anusha - 2021
Past research has provided evidence of clientelistic politics in delivery of programme benefits by local governments, or gram panchayats (GPs), and manipulation of GP programme budgets by legislators and elected officials at upper tiers in West Bengal, India. Using household panel survey data...
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How status inequality between ethnic groups affects public goods provision : experimental evidence on caste and tolerance for teacher absenteeism in India
Singh, Prerna; Spears, Dean - 2017
This article contributes to the growing scholarship on how ethnic inequality can dampen the provision of public goods and services. On the one hand, it pushes beyond purely economic inequality to include status inequality between population groups. On other hand, it moves away from the provision...
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Land acquisition for industrialization and compensation of displaced farmers
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Mookherjee, Dilip - 2011
This paper addresses the question of how farmers displaced by acquisition of agricultural land for the purpose of industrialization ought to be compensated. Prior to acquisition, the farmers are leasing in land from a landlord, either a private owner or a local government. There are three sets...
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