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Trust to Pay? Tax Morale and Trust in Africa
Kouame, Wilfried - 2019
Although low tax morale hits developing countries hardest, little is known about its determinants in those countries. This paper examines the impact of trust in public institutions and the neighborhood on individual tax morale in four African countries: Algeria, Ghana, Morocco, and Nigeria....
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Social Capital, Trust, and Well-Being in the Evaluation of Wealth
Hamilton, Kirk - 2017
This paper combines theory with data from different domains to provide an empirical analysis of the scale and variability of social capital as wealth. The analysis is used to argue, given what has been learned from the literature on social capital, that the welfare returns to investing in trust...
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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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The Political Economy of the Middle Class in the Dominican Republic : Individualization of Public Goods, Lack of Institutional Trust and Weak Collective Action
Sanchez-Martin, Miguel Eduardo - 2017
This paper tries to uncover some of the hidden factors behind poor public service delivery in the Dominican Republic. By looking at three sector cases, education, health and electricity, it is possible to observe that in this setting of low quality of public services the "middle class" is opting...
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When Do Donors Trust Recipient Country Systems?
Knack, Stephen - 2017
The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness sets targets for increased use by donors of recipient country systems for managing aid. The target is premised on a view that country systems are strengthened when donors trust recipients to manage aid funds, but undermined when donors manage aid...
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In Aid We Trust : Hearts and Minds and the Pakistan Earthquake of 2005
Andrabi, Tahir - 2017
Winning "hearts and minds" in the Muslim world is an explicitly acknowledged aim of U.S. foreign policy and increasingly, bilateral foreign aid is recognized as a vehicle towards this end. The authors examine the effect of aid from foreign organizations and on-the-ground presence of foreigners...
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Corruption and Confidence in Public Institutions : Evidence from a Global Survey
Clausen, Bianca - 2017
must also inspire confidence in those they serve. The authors use data from the Gallup World Poll, a unique and very large … corruption and confidence in public institutions. This suggests an important channel through which corruption can inhibit … development by eroding confidence in public institutions. This correlation is robust to the inclusion of a large set of controls …
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Cash Transfers Increase Trust in Local Government
Evans, David - 2018
How does a locally-managed conditional cash transfer program impact trust in government? On the one hand, delivering monetary benefits and increasing interactions with government officials (elected and appointed) may increase trust. On the other hand, it can be difficult for citizens to know to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927669
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Finding the Poor vs. Measuring Their Poverty : Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia
Bah, Adama - 2018
Indonesia's Unified Database for Social Protection Programs (UDB), among the largest targeting registries in the world, used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927010
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Early-Life Access to a Basic Health Care Program and Adult Outcomes in Indonesia
Ahsan, Md Nazmul - 2020
the long-run impact of the Village Midwife Program in Indonesia. It utilizes the roll-out-variation of the program and …
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