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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 …

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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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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...

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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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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 …

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The Consequences of Political Interference in Bureaucratic Decision Making : Evidence from Nigeria

Rogger, Daniel - 2018

political corruption …

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Does Greater Regulatory Burden Lead to More Corruption? Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data for Developing Countries

Amin, Mohammad - 2020

simple way to combat corruption. However, empirical evidence on the corruption and regulation nexus is limited. Further, the … corruption indices used are based on experts' opinions, which may suffer from perception bias. The present paper attempts to … analysis finds a large, positive effect of regulatory burden on corruption. For the baseline results, the bribery rate is …

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