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Elite capture of foreign aid : evidence from offshore bank accounts
Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Johannesen, Niels; Rijkers, Bob - 2020
Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank secrecy and private wealth management, but not in other financial centers. The estimates are...
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Do Capital Inflows Boost Growth in Developing Countries? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Calder�n, C�sar - 2015
Finance and Financial Sector Development …
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Cabinet size and governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Wehner, Joachim; Mills, Linnea - 2020
. Scholarship on elite clientelism links cabinet positions with corruption and practices that undermine sound policy making. This … measures of governance. The associations are robust in a regression framework that exploits within-country variation over time … simplistic policy prescriptions, a sizable increase in the number of ministers is likely bad news for governance …
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Results-Based Approaches in Development : A Review
World Bank - 2015
ineffectiveness of development spending, policy makers have started to explore new ways of structuring development support in order to …
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Fragile States : Securing Development
Zoellick, Robert B. - 2008
Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank, discussed the following priorities: (i) understanding fragile states; (ii) building legitimacy of the state; (iii) security; (iv) rule of law and the legal order; (v) local and national ownership; (vi) economic stability, as a foundation for growth...
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Justice, Conflict and Development
Jensen, Erik - 2011
Access to justice is a 'big tent' for law programs broadly writ and has been so for over 25 years. Traditionally, access to justice has been treated as a category of interventions rather than a heuristic device from which to learn and experiment. In the old, old days, access to justice meant...
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Speech at Migration and the Global Development Agenda Conference
Kim, Jim Yong - 2015
humanitarian and development challenge. The Bank supports the global knowledge partnership on migration and development (KNOMAD …
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Water SupplyThe Transition from Emergency to Development Support
Sitali, Muyatwa - 2017
operation and maintenance costs through consumer tariffs). Stretching these 'development' interventions into protracted crises …
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Twenty Reasons Sustainable Tourism Counts for Development
International Finance Corporation - 2017
. The goal of this paper is to build the case for this type of sustainable and inclusive tourism development. In support of … sustainable tourism, United Nations has designated 2017 as the International Year of 'Sustainable Tourism for Development …'. Sustainable tourism is identified as a vital component to ensure the achievements of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 8 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247006
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Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets : Evidence from Firm Surveys in 88 Developing Countries
Knack, Stephen - 2017
competition and corruption levels. This paper adds to the evidence base, using data on almost 34,000 firms from the World Bank … not strongly associated with other "governance"-related outcomes in firm surveys that are unrelated to procurement …
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