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Bureaucratic Blockages : Water, Civil Servants, and Community in Tanzania
Bailey, Juli - 2017
How do civil servants in district water and sanitation departments address problems of water access in rural communities in Tanzania? What are the bureaucratic procedures they follow? How do the bureaucratic procedures around formulating budgets, managing money, and interacting with communities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954303
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Donor Fragmentation and Bureaucratic Quality in Aid Recipients
Knack, Stephen - 2017
This paper analyzes the impact of donor fragmentation on the quality of government bureaucracy in aid-recipient nations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746896
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What Factors Predict How Public Sector Projects Perform? A Review of the World Bank's Public Sector Management Portfolio
Blum, Jurgen Rene - 2017
This paper uses regression analysis to identify which country context, reform content, process, and project management variables predict the performance of public sector management projects, as measured by the Independent Evaluation Group's project outcome ratings. The paper draws on data from a...
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The Organization of Political Parties and the Politics of Bureaucratic Reform
Cruz, Cesi - 2017
political economy of bureaucracy. Politicians in some countries belong to parties that are organized to allow party members to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973811
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The Consequences of Political Interference in Bureaucratic Decision Making : Evidence from Nigeria
Rogger, Daniel - 2018
representative data set from Nigeria that tracks public projects from inception to audit, the paper finds evidence of a clear trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912278
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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …
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Enrichment with Growth
Klein, Michael U. - 2017
This essay first sets out the "business model" problems entailed by corruption and their effects as well as implications for economic growth. Key issues are the need for secrecy and co-operation with partners in crime. Dealing with these leads to behavior which is ostensibly bizarre and...
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Transport Infrastructure and Welfare : An Application to Nigeria
Ali, Rubaba - 2020
the differential development impacts of alternative road construction and prioritize various proposals, using Nigeria as a … gross domestic product for Nigeria. Although the measure of transport is the most accurate possible, it is still endogenous … costs in Nigeria will increase crop revenue, non-agricultural income, the wealth index, and local gross domestic product …
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Decentralization and Redistribution : Irrigation Reform in Pakistan's Indus Basin
Jacoby, Hanan G. - 2018
Does decentralizing the allocation of public resources reduce rent-seeking and improve equity? This paper studies a governance reform in Pakistan's vast Indus Basin irrigation system. Using canal discharge measurements across all of Punjab province, the analysis finds that water theft increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926888
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Governing the Commons? : Water and Power in Pakistan's Indus Basin
Jacoby, Hanan G. - 2018
allocation under an irrigation bureaucracy subject to corruption and rent-seeking. Data on the landholdings and political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926889