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Bureaucratic delay, local-level monitoring, and delivery of small infrastructure projects: Evidence from a eld experiment in Bolivia
Machicado, Carlos Gustavo; Yanez, Monica - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2012
, transparency, and accountability among grass- roots organizations. The experiment consists of randomly providing sub …-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized eld experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting voice … mechanisms of local accountability are subject to be captured by local elites or are weak, monitoring tools might have limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877356
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Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia
Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots organizations. The experiment consists of randomly providing sub …-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting … mechanisms of local accountability are subject to be captured by local elites or are weak, monitoring tools might have limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575485
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Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia
Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Machicado-Salas, Gustavo - In: World Development 59 (2014) C, pp. 394-407
designed to improve public service delivery by promoting voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots organizations … delay within the allocation of small infrastructure projects in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment …. The findings of this paper suggest that monitoring tools designed to promote transparency and access to information by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010779979
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Crime in Urban Areas: An Empirical Investigation
Gumus, Erdal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Crime is an illness that attacks rights of individuals. It therefore interests everybody in a society. It is argued that as urbanization increases so does crime. The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the determinants of crime in urban areas by using cross-sectional data. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260918
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Evolução da Maturidade dos Serviços de Informação das Autarquias no período 2006-2007
Vieira, Luís - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2007
This study, continuing work executed in 2006, determines, analyses and publishes rankings concerning the functionalities of information services of Portuguese municipalities, based on the direct observation of their web sites, executed between March and June of 2007. It summarizes information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005463748
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Administrative overspending in Indonesian districts: The role of local politics
Sjahrir, Bambang Suharnoko; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
administrative spending; instead a lack of political accountability is responsible for this excess. The degree of political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010736524
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Les transferts de competences vus depuis la Roumanie
Matei, Ani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The paper approaches the topic of competence transfer in Romanian public administration in view of enlarging the processes of decentralization and deconcentration. The relation between decentralization of administration and competence transfer is biunivoque and it is understood in broad meaning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562652
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Geração computacional de recomendações para o desenvolvimento dos serviços de informação das autarquias
Vieira, Luís M. Ribeiro - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2006
This study, based on data about internet available functionalities of Portuguese municipalities, determines, using computational facilities supported by a data base and a query language, and analyzes a large number of recommendations in order to provide a better service to user. It concludes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761265
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Um estudo sobre a maturidade dos serviços de informação das autarquias
Vieira, Luís M. Ribeiro - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2006
This study determines, analyzes and publishes rankings concerning the functionalities of information services of Portuguese municipalities, based on the direct observation of their web sites, executed between March and June of 2006. It summarizes information concerning these functionalities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761268
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A FRAMEWORK FOR TRANSPARENCY IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE / UN MARCO PARA LA TRANSPARENCIA EN EL COMERCIO INTERNACIONAL
Bernal Turnes, Paloma; Ernst, Ricardo - In: Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 21 (2015) 1, pp. 1-8
The aim of this paper is to cover the gap in literature about transparency in the context of international trade … facilitation. It focuses on the importance of transparency in achieving growth in international trade and the differences between … and laws is not the only trade policy instrument where transparency becomes important. To build a framework on levels of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262771