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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...
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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 …
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Public Spending and Outcomes : Does Governance Matter?
Rajkumar, Andrew Sunil - 2017
The authors examine the role of governance-measured by level of corruption and quality of bureaucracy-and ask how it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971163
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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 … corrupt practices. However, different economic policies can be pursued that are compatible with corruption. Some are more pro … resemble fairly orthodox economic policy prescriptions. Eventually the abolition of corruption holds the greatest promise to …
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How Business Community Institutions Can Help Fight Corruption
Dixit, Avinash - 2017
This paper considers the possibility of collective action by the business community to counter corruption in the award … probability of winning the license or contract through bribery. An improvement in the government's formal anti-corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973046
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Reforming Village-Level Governance Via Horizontal Pressure : Evidence from an Experiment in Zimbabwe
Baldwin, Kate - 2017
How can patrimonial local-level governance be reformed? Debates on this topic have focused largely on the possibility of reform via pressure from above (superordinate leaders) or below (citizens). This paper tests whether horizontal pressures from civil society leaders can reform local...
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Biased Policy Professionals
Banuri, Sheheryar - 2017
A large literature focuses on the biases of individuals and consumers, as well as "nudges" and other policies that can address those biases. Although policy decisions are often more consequential than those of individual consumers, there is a dearth of studies on the biases of policy...
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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...
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Political Selection and Bureaucratic Productivity
Habyarimana, James P. - 2018
Economic theory of public bureaucracies as complex organizations predicts that bureaucratic productivity can be shaped by the selection of different types of agents, beyond their incentives. This theory applies to the institutions of local government in the developing world, where nationally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906601
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Management and Bureaucratic Effectiveness : Evidence from the Ghanaian Civil Service
Rasul, Imran - 2018
deliverable outputs. The paper discusses the interplay between management practices and corruption, alternative methods by which …
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