actors are associated with worse local development outcomes. This evidence suggests that greater competition between elite …

-growth than others. Pro-growth corrupt policies hold the promise of enriching the corrupt elite more in absolute terms even though … the share of national wealth diverted may be smaller. The most effective pro-growth polices that help enrich an elite …

currently the instrument of choice. Nonetheless, despite clear advantages in administrative costs, the fear of elite capture …

also found to improve public satisfaction, whereas elite domination of allocation processes has a negative effect. The …

jobs and gifts at the time of elections. Can access to mass media that broadcasts public interest messages shift citizens … community radio is identified through a natural experiment in the media market in northern Benin, which yields exogenous …

Mass media play a crucial role in information distribution and in the political market and public policy making. Theory … predicts that information provided by the mass media reflects the media's incentives to provide news to different groups in … spanning a wide range of development stages and media markets to test these predictions. The empirical results are consistent …

channels through which mass media affect public policy outcomes. Prior research has concluded that governments provide greater … northern Benin, the paper finds that media access increases the likelihood that households pay for the bed nets they receive … media appears to change the private behavior of citizens -- in this case, to invest more of their own resources on a public …