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State Secretaries Reform in Ukraine : Attempt to Delineate Responsibilities between Ministers and Senior Civil Servants
Balabushko, Oleksii - 2017
policies of the current government could be improved (Matheson et al. 2007). This paper examines an attempt to de … government officials and experts as well as legal acts, available documents, articles, and personal interviews. The paper …
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Industrial Policy, Information, and Government Capacity
Maloney, William F.; Nayyar, Gaurav - 2017
so requires information on the nature and magnitude of market failures on the one hand, and government's capacity to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014121437
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Trust in Government and Support for Redistribution
Silva, Joana - 2017
In many countries safety nets consist predominantly of universal subsidies on food and fuel. A key question for policy makers willing to shift to targeted safety nets is under what conditions middle-class citizens would be supportive of redistributive programs. Results from a behavioral...
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Communism as the Unhappy Coming
Djankov, Simeon - 2018
covering more than 100 countries around the world. Consistent with the happiness results, the paper also finds that relative to … safe jobs. In addition, Orthodoxy is associated with left-leaning political preferences and stronger support for government … that government ownership is a good thing, and Protestants are less likely to agree that getting rich can only happen at …
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Sex, Lies, and Surveys : The Role of Interviewer Characteristics
Koroknay-Palicz, Tricia - 2019
This paper examines how easily observable interviewer characteristics, such as gender and physical attractiveness, and more difficult to observe characteristics, such as attitudes and beliefs, affect adolescent girls' disclosure of sexual behavior during a baseline survey for an adolescent girls...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892696
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Measuring Firm-Level Innovation Using Short Questionnaires : Evidence from an Experiment
Cirera, X. - 2017
Little is known about innovation in developing countries, partly because of the lack of comparable and reliable data. Collecting data on firm-level innovation is challenging because of the subjective definition of what determines an innovation, a problem that is exacerbated in developing...
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Identifying Gazelles : Expert Panels vs. Surveys as a Means to Identify Firms with Rapid Growth Potential
Fafchamps, Marcel - 2017
A business plan competition is conducted to test whether survey instruments or panel judges are able to identify the fastest growing firms. Participants submitted six- to eight-page business plans and defended them before a three- or four-judge panel. Applicants are surveyed shortly after they...
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Doing the Survey Two-Step : The Effects of Reticence on Estimates of Corruption in Two-Stage Survey Questions
Karalashvili, Nona - 2017
whether a government official visited a business, and then asking about bribery if a visit was acknowledged. Reticence is a …
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Interviewer Effects in Subjective Survey Questions : Evidence from Timor-Leste
Himelein, Kristen - 2017
developing world. Unexpected interactions between the interviewer and respondent can lead to interviewer effects in the data … developing world on topics that are outside the standard objective questions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972056
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Radio Frequency (Un)Identification : Results from a Proof-of-Concept Trial of the Use of RFID Technology to Measure Microenterprise Turnover in Sri Lanka
de Mel, Suresh - 2017
Accurate measurement of stock levels, turnover, and profitability in microenterprises in developing countries is difficult because the majority of these firms do not keep detailed records. This paper tests the use of radio frequency identification tags as a means of objectively measuring stock...
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