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Clientelism in the Public Sector : Why Public Service Reforms Fail and What to Do About it
Bold, Tessa - 2018
In many developing countries (and beyond), public sector workers are not just simply implementers of policies designed by the politicians in charge of supervising them -- so called agents and principals, respectively. Public sector workers can have the power to influence whether politicians are...
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Measuring the Effectiveness of Service Delivery : Delivery of Government Provided Goods and Services in India
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2017
This paper uses new survey data to measure the government's capacity to deliver goods and services in a manner that includes: high coverage of the population; equal access; and high quality of service delivery. The paper finds variation in these indicators across and within Indian states....
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What Determines Entrepreneurial Outcomes in Emerging Markets? The Role of Initial Conditions
Ayyagari, Meghana - 2017
the early lifecycle of firms across diverse institutional environments of regions in India. It finds that the size and …
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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. Although the secular trend for India's manufacturing … strains than those focused only on the formal sector. Cities are evolving in India from places of goods production to forges …
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What Makes Cities More Competitive? Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
, boost economic growth, and promote job creation. The authors examine the spatial location of entrepreneurs in India in … patterns are true for manufacturing and services. These relationships are much stronger in India than those found for the … United States. The authors also find strong evidence of agglomeration economies in India's manufacturing sector. This …
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Was Weber Right? The Effects of Pay for Ability and Pay for Performance on Pro-Social Motivation, Ability and Effort in the Public Sector
Banuri, Sheheryar - 2017
This paper examines the effects of pecuniary compensation on the ability and motivation of individuals inorganizations with non-pecuniary or pro-social missions. In particular, the paper compares flat pay systems, unrelated with ability or effort, to two other systems that are considered...
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Parental Human Capital and Effective School Management : Evidence from the Gambia
Blimpo, Moussa Pouguinimpo - 2017
Education systems in developing countries are often centrally managed in a top-down structure. In environments where schools have different needs and where localized information plays an important role, empowerment of the local community may be attractive, but low levels of human capital at the...
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What Factors Predict How Public Sector Projects Perform? A Review of the World Bank's Public Sector Management Portfolio
Blum, Jurgen Rene - 2017
This paper uses regression analysis to identify which country context, reform content, process, and project management variables predict the performance of public sector management projects, as measured by the Independent Evaluation Group's project outcome ratings. The paper draws on data from a...
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Tailoring Civil Service Pay Analysis and Advice to Context : Challenges, Approaches, and the Case of Lao Pdr
Barma, Naazneen - 2017
The adequacy of compensation for government workers and the affordability of the public sector wage bill are important concerns for many developing countries. Suitable pay is considered a necessary -- albeit far from sufficient -- condition for attracting and retaining skilled public sector...
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Intrinsic Motivation, Effort and the Call to Public Service
Banuri, Sheheryar - 2017
Pay schemes in the public sector aim to attract motivated, high-ability applicants. A nascent literature has found positive effects of higher pay on ability and no or slightly positive effects on motivation. This paper revisits this issue with a novel subject pool, students destined for the...
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