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We provide a theoretical framework for understanding when an official angles for a bribe, when a client pays, and the payoffs to the client's decision. We test this frame work using a new data set on bribery of Peruvian public officials by households. The theory predicts that bribery is more...
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Government intervention to correct market failures is often accompanied by government failures and corruption. This is …. However, the impact of corruption on the public provision of social services has not been analyzed. This paper reviews the … relevant theoretical models and users' perceptions of corruption in the public provision of social services. It then provides …
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"corruption". Such analytical distinction helps us in understanding how redistributive politics can adversely affect the quality … associated with a higher degree of corruption but somewhat lower magnitude of "redistributive politics". We build up a political … choice model where corruption and redistribution are treated as substitutes in the political strategy space. Our paper is …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework on the relationship between corruption and … development. The paper demonstrates how the impact of corruption on economic development (ED) might vary substantially from … concepts from corruption and development. A synthesis of these two concepts leads to the development of the conceptual …
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rationale of public enterprises is destroyed by lack of planning and errors in corruption in policy adoption, but not by errors … or corruption in production plans. This points to the overall quality of institutions as a pre-condition for socially …
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This article argues that theories about the spatial distribution of poverty since World War II have always combined analyses of the impact of the built environment, of culture and of mobility of populations. However, the form taken by these combinations has varied with the logic of the...
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The main objective of this work is to study the effects that supply and demand factors have on waiting lists. With this aim, the authors discuss a model which explains the factors that can affect the production of healthcare, demand for healthcare, and finally, the inequalities between health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011650429
The main objective of this work is to study the effects that supply and demand factors have on waiting lists. With this aim in mind, the authors discuss a model which explains the factors that can affect the production of healthcare, demand for healthcare, and finally, the inequalities between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011736879
This prospective paper is about ‘after the triumph’, a short-hand for a much larger and more powerful idea, namely, the return, reconstitution and redeployment of the public domain in a post-Seattle and post-Washington consensus world order (Williamson 1990, 1999). The emergence of the...
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We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA),...
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