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The good governance indicators of the millennium challenge account: How many dimensions are really being measured?
Knoll, Martin; Zloczysti, Petra - 2011
This paper assesses the validity of the perception-based governance indicators used by the US Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) for aid allocation decisions. By conducting Explanatory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of data from 1996 to 2009, we find that although the MCA purports to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286626
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The Good Governance Indicators of the Millennium Challenge Account: How Many Dimensions Are Really Being Measured?
Knoll, Martin; Zloczysti, Petra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This paper assesses the validity of the perception-based governance indicators used by the US Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) for aid allocation decisions. By conducting Explanatory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of data from 1996 to 2009, we find that although the MCA purports to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277155
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Foreign direct investment inflows and governance nexus : evidence from the United States, China, and Singapore
Kayani, Farrukh Nawaz; Gan, Christopher - In: Review of Pacific Basin financial markets and policies … 25 (2022) 4, pp. 1-18
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233790
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The Good Governance Indicators of the Millennium Challenge Account: How Many Dimensions are Really Being Measured?
Knoll, Martin; Zloczysti, Petra - In: World Development 40 (2012) 5, pp. 900-915
This paper assesses the validity of the perception-based governance indicators used by the US Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) for aid allocation decisions. By conducting Explanatory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of data from 1996 to 2009, we find that although the MCA purports to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011052118
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America's Real 'Debt Dilemma'
Hager, Sandy Brian - In: Review of Capital as Power 1 (2013) 1, pp. 41-62
by inequality, while decreases to the privately held portion of the public debt are likely to encounter resistance from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646059
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FDI and income inequality: evidence from a panel of US states
Chintrakarn, Pandej; Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2010
) and income inequality in the United States. Using panel cointegration techniques that allow for cross …-sectional heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence, and endogenous regressors, we find that the short-run effects of FDI on income inequality … negative effect on income inequality in the United States. This result for the United States as a whole does not imply that FDI …
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
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Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap
Hanushek, Eric A.; Peterson, Paul E.; Talpey, Laura M.; … - 2020
Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180164
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Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap
Hanushek, Eric A.; Peterson, Paul E.; Talpey, Laura M.; … - 2020
Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207876
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China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility
van der Weide, Roy; Narayan, Ambar - 2019
The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...
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