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Performance of Social Safety Net Programs in Uttar Pradesh

Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan - 2012

Ajwad assesses the effectiveness of core social protection programs in Uttar Pradesh using the following criteria: i) coverage, ii) targeting efficiency; and iii) adequacy and potential impact on household welfare. The study is largely a quantitative assessment. Five main findings emerge from...

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Estimating Household Responses to Trade Reforms : Net Consumers and Net Producers in Rural Mexico

Porto, Guido G. - 2005

This paper explores an empirical methodology to assess the impacts of trade reforms on household behavior in developing countries. I focus on consumption and income responses: when price reforms take place, households modify consumption and production decisions and local labor markets adjust....

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Democratic Jihad? Military Intervention and Democracy

Gleditsch, Nils Petter - 2016

normative justification for such interventions, for the purpose of promoting democracy and eventually for the promotion of peace … democracy. Thus, forced democratization is unpredictable with regard to achieving long-term democracy and potentially harmful …

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Insurgency and Credible Commitment in Autocracies and Democracies

Keefer, Philip - 2016

This paper suggests a new factor that makes civil war more likely: the inability of political actors to make credible promises to broad segments of society. Lacking this ability, both elected and unelected governments pursue public policies that leave citizens less well-off and more prone to...

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The Strength of American Federal Democracy : Lessons for Global Development

Myerson, Roger - 2017

always been guided by two basic principles: representative democracy, and a proper division of power between national and … drawn to centralized democracy, as national elites may prefer to centralize power around themselves. America's successful …

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Long-Run Effects of Democracy on Income Inequality : Evidence from Repeated Cross-Sections

Balcázar Salazar, Carlos - 2017

This paper assesses the link between democracy and inequality. Inequality is measured at the cohort level with pseudo …-panel data built from nine Latin American countries' household surveys (1995-2009, biannual). Democracy is measured as a stock …-run historical patterns in the degree of democracy relate to income inequality. However, this relationship is non …

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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 Anatomy of Failure : An Ethnography of a Randomized Trial to Deepen Democracy in Rural India

Ananthpur, Kripa - 2017

Programs that induce citizen participation to improve the quality of government at the local level are the subjects of large amounts of funding and intense debate. This paper combines a randomized control trial of a citizenship training and facilitation program in rural India, with an in-depth,...

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Small is Beautiful, at Least in High-Income Democracies : The Distribution of Policy-Making Responsibility, Electoral Accountability, and Incentives for Rent Extraction

Hamilton, Alexander James - 2017

rents extracted in any given high-income democracy context. Specifically, the paper formally models how: (1) variation in …

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Direct Democracy and Resource Allocation : Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan

Beath, Andrew - 2017

Direct democracy is designed to better align public resource allocation decisions with citizen preferences. Using a … results indicate that the use of direct democracy in public resource allocation results in more legitimate outcomes than those …

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