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Merit-based selection of bureaucrats is central to state capacity building, yet rare in developing countries. Most executives instead favor patronage -political discretion- in public employment. This paper proposes and tests an original theory to explain when executives forsake patronage for...
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Boom and Bust: Local strategy for big events is the result of a collective effort at the University of Alberta to better understand the dramatic ups and downs which too often characterize western Canadian communities. From the Canadian analysis stems this book, which can be helpful in any...
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formulating policies must be taken that will embody the preconditions of growth, the infrastructure of the market economy. In this …
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The objective of this text is to present an overview of the trajectory of the infrastructure policies in Brazil in the …
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High hopes are pinned to mini-grids for rural electrification, especially in remote and sparsely populated areas. This note presents new evidence from a large evaluation of a US Millennium Challenge Corporation investment into mini-grids in Indonesia. We find that, a few years after...
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The application and design of public-private partnerships between the extremes of purely public or purely private task fulfilment in public services is, in practice, subject to political processes. Decisions about PPPs (realisation, arrangement) are taken in the political arena and are therefore...
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. First, we conduct a difference-in-differences analysis to compare changes in the probability of working in bureaucracy after … points more likely to work in bureaucracy, and that the positive selection on human capital can explain only 12-25 percent of … the campaign, or changes in perceptions of bureaucracy. …
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. First, we conduct a difference-in-differences analysis to compare changes in the probability of working in bureaucracy after … points more likely to work in bureaucracy, and that positive selection on human capital can explain about one third of this …, or changes in perceptions of bureaucracy. …
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difference-in-differences analysis to compare changes in the probability of working in bureaucracy after the campaign came into … bureaucracy. However, after the campaign took effect, this premium significantly reduced by over 5 percentage points. Moreover, we … changes in perceptions of bureaucracy among bureaucrats' children as alternative explanations. …
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, political, and governance variables to assess the determinants of private financing of infrastructure in emerging markets and … developing economies. Controlling for economic characteristics, we find that overall private participation of infrastructure … infrastructure. Our results do not vary when controlling for income inequality and across quartiles of experience, country wealth …
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