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Party Age and Party Color : New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality

Keefer, Philip - 2017

This paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central -- but still contested -- assumption of the political...

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The Organization of Political Parties and the Politics of Bureaucratic Reform

Cruz, Cesi - 2017

Bureaucratic reform is a priority of donor organizations, including the World Bank, but is notoriously difficult to implement. In many countries, politicians have little interest in the basic financial and personnel management systems that are essential to political oversight of bureaucratic...

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Political Budget Cycles and the Organization of Political Parties

Hanusch, Marek - 2017

This paper introduces a new explanation for political budget cycles: politicians have stronger incentives to increase spending around elections in the presence of younger political parties. Previous research has shown that political budget cycles are larger when voters are uninformed about...

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Organizing for Prosperity : Collective Action, Political Parties and the Political Economy of Development

Keefer, Philip - 2017

The ability of citizens to act collectively plays a central role in major debates in the political economy of development, including the causes and consequences of democratization and clientelism. This essay uses two lines of research to underscore the importance of explicitly introducing the...

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Collective Action, Political Parties and Pro-Development Public Policy

Keefer, Philip - 2017

Broad consensus exists that the ability of political actors to make credible commitments is key to development. An important and little-explored determinant of the credibility of political commitments is the existence of organizations that facilitate citizen collective action to sanction...

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Factions, Local Accountability, and Long-Term Development : County-Level Evidence from a Chinese Province

Fang, Hanming - 2019

This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the role of factional competition and local accountability in explaining the enormous but puzzling county-level variations in development performance in Fujian province of China. When the Communist armies took over Fujian from the...

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Nigeria's Growth Record : Dutch Disease or Debt Overhang?

Pang, Gaobo - 2016

Nigeria's oil boom has not brought an end to perennial stagnation in the non-oil economy. Is this the unavoidable …

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Oil and the Propensity to Armed Struggle in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

Oyefusi, Aderoju - 2016

participation by individuals in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria using primary (micro) data. While grievance appears to be …

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Heterogeneous Returns to Income Diversification : Evidence from Nigeria

Bertoni, Eleonora - 2020

This paper investigates the impact of income diversification on farming households' welfare in Nigeria on two rounds of … the Nigeria General Household Survey-Panel, namely the 2010/2011 and 2012/2013. The study finds that income … diversification is the norm in Nigeria, with about 60 percent of farmers diversifying away from subsistence farming into non …

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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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