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Does Money Buy Credit? Firm-Level Evidence on Bribery and Bank Debt
Fungáčová, Zuzana - 2015
This study examines how bribery influences bank debt ratios for a large sample of firms from 14 transition countries. We combine information on bribery practices from the BEEPS survey with firm-level accounting data from the Amadeus database. Bribery is measured by the frequency of extra...
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Credit-Based Payments for Ecosystem Services: Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Ecuador
Cranford, Matthew; Mourato, Susana - In: World Development 64 (2014) C, pp. 503-520
market constraints are preferred. The main issue with the latter is how to include conditionality. We propose credit …
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Does Access to Formal Agricultural Credit Depend on Caste?
Kumar, Sunil Mitra - In: World Development 43 (2013) C, pp. 315-328
This paper analyzes whether caste impedes access to formal agricultural credit in India. Credit is provided mainly …
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Market Imperfections and Child Labor
Dumas, Christelle - In: World Development 42 (2013) C, pp. 127-142
This article looks into the relationship between market imperfections and child labor. A rural household model shows that households with medium-sized plots may increase child labor when the labor market improves, contrary to the others. We estimate the relationship between child labor and...
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Capital Flight in the Presence of Domestic Borrowing: Evidence from Eastern European Economies
Brada, Josef C.; Kutan, Ali M.; Vukšić, Goran - In: World Development 51 (2013) C, pp. 32-46
transferred overseas through domestic loans and capital inflows. Domestic credit expansion is an important source of financing for …
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Magic and witchcraft: Implications for Democratization and poverty-alleviating aid in Africa
Kohnert, Dirk - In: World Development 24 (1996) 8, pp. 1347-1355
The belief in occult forces is still deeply rooted in many African societies, regardless of education, religion, and social class of the people concerned. According to many Africans its incidence is even increasing due to social stress and strain caused (among others) by the process of...
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Explaining Africa’s (Dis)advantage
Harrison, Ann E.; Lin, Justin Yifu; Xu, Lixin Colin - In: World Development 63 (2014) C, pp. 59-77
Africa’s economic performance has been widely viewed with pessimism. In this paper, firm-level data for around 80 … productivity levels and growth. Africa’s conditional advantage is higher in low-tech than in high-tech manufacturing, and exists in … manufacturing but not in services. The key factors explaining Africa’s disadvantage at the firm level are lack of infrastructure …
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The Role of Rural–Urban Migration in the Structural Transformation of Sub-Saharan Africa
de Brauw, Alan; Mueller, Valerie; Lee, Hak Lim - In: World Development 63 (2014) C, pp. 33-42
sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we attempt to describe the present state of rural–urban migration from several … and migration policy in Africa. …
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Aiding and Abetting: Project Aid and Ethnic Politics in Kenya
Briggs, Ryan C. - In: World Development 64 (2014) C, pp. 194-205
I analyze a unique dataset of sub-national resource allocations in Kenya from 1989 to 1995 and show that project aid and local funds were disproportionately directed to the president’s political base. Per-donor analyses of aid flows show that bilateral donors and the African Development Bank...
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Impact of South–South FDI and Trade on the Export Upgrading of African Economies
Amighini, Alessia; Sanfilippo, Marco - In: World Development 64 (2014) C, pp. 1-17
We explore the impact of FDI and imports on the upgrading of African exports. We find that South–South flows impact differently from North–South ones on the ability of recipients to absorb the positive spillovers. Results support the view that South–South integration has a strong potential...
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