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Reshaping institutions : evidence on external aid and local collective action
Casey, Katherine; Glennerster, Rachel; Miguel, Edward - 2011 - Rev.
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Reshaping institutions : evidence on aid impacts using a preanalysis plan
Casey, Katherine; Glennerster, Rachel; Miguel, Edward - In: The quarterly journal of economics 127 (2012) 4, pp. 1755-1812
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Reshaping institutions : evidence on external aid and local collective action
Casey, Katherine; Glennerster, Rachel; Miguel, Edward - 2011
"Although institutions are believed to be key determinants of economic performance, there is limited evidence on how they can be successfully reformed. The most popular strategy to improve local institutions in developing countries is "community driven development" (CDD). This paper estimates...
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Reshaping Institutions : Evidence on Aid Impacts Using a Pre-Analysis Plan
Casey, Katherine - 2011
these three pervasive challenges by: exploiting the random assignment of a participatory local governance intervention …
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Culture, diffusion, and economic development
Harutyunyan, Ani; Özak, Ömer - 2016
This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that … culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally … culture, while lending credence to the idea that common ancestry generates persistence and plays a central role in economic …
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Culture, diffusion, and economic development : the problem of observational equivalence
Harutyunyan, Ani; Özak, Ömer - In: Economics letters 158 (2017), pp. 94-100
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Culture, Diffusion, and Economic Development
Harutyunyan, Ani - 2016
This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that … culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally … culture, while lending credence to the idea that common ancestry generates persistence and plays a central role in economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978447
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Culture, Diffusion, and Economic Development
Harutyunyan, Ani - 2016
This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that … culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally … economic development. These results highlight the difficulty of disentangling the direct and barrier effects of culture, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995387
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How do governments become great? : ten cases, two competing explanations, one large research agenda
Andrews, Matt - 2013
Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: 'how do governments become great?'....
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Who really leads development?
Andrews, Matt - 2013
'Leadership' is not a common topic for research in international development. In recent years, however, prominent studies like the 2008 Growth Commission Report noted the importance of leadership in development. This and other studies focused on individual leaders - or heroes - when examining...
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