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An Empirical Analysis of Relationship between Corruptions and Public Expenditures : The Turkish Case

Bagdigen, Muhlis; Dokmen, Gokhan - 2009

Corruption, which is described as the use of public power for individual purposes and which affects many areas of … relations between corruption and public expenditures in Turkey for the period of 1982-2003, by applying least square method …. Empirical results show that there is same way relations between corruption and public expenditures in Turkey for the period …

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Country Size and Public Good Provision

Staal, Klaas - 2004

This paper studies the equilibrium size of countries. Individuals in small countries have greater influence over the nature of political decision making while individuals in large countries have the advantage of more public goods and lower tax rates. The model implies that (i) there exists...

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Cap Between First and Second Pillars: Looking into EU Spending on Agriculture

Filippis, Fabrizio De; Henke, Roberto - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2010) 3

In this paper we offer some reflections on the Cap reform process, starting from analysis of the objectives and the solidity of its two financial pillars. In the first part of the paper agricultural expenditure is re-classified on the basis of major Cap intervention typologies, showing how a...

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Community mobilization around social dilemmas : evidence from lab experiments in rural MaliMaria Laura Alzua; Juan Camilo Cardenas and Habiba Djebbari

Alzua, Maria Laura; Cárdenas Campo, Juan Camilo; … - 2014

Community mobilization is a key feature of community-based development projects. Community mobilization requires facilitating communication between village members and between leaders and the rest of the community. Is communication an effective device through which mobilization may foster...

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Public Goods and Public Services - The Process of Building Social Capital in Rural Areas

Cecchi, Claudio - 2012

The paper deals with the process of building social capital as constrained by the availability of public and private services. The purpose is to show that social capital shapes, both in positive and negative terms, the capacity of local institutions to support development projects and...

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Private Capital, Public Goods : Forest Plantations' Investment in Local Infrastructure and Social Services in Rural Tanzania

Degnet, Mohammed B. - 2017

With the rapid expansion of private forest plantations worldwide, their impacts on local development are under scrutiny by NGOs and researchers alike. This study investigates the impacts of private forest plantations on local infrastructure and social services in rural Tanzania. We take a...

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Agricultura, desarrollo rural y sostenibilidad medioambiental

Gómez-Limón, José Antonio; Picazo-Tadeo, Andrés J.; … - In: CIRIEC-España, revista de economía pública, social y … (2008) 61, pp. 103-126

In addition to its traditional purpose of producing food and raw materials, agriculture plays an important role in terms of supplying public goods, generally in the form of externalities deriving from farming activities. These goods may be predominantly economic and social –rural...

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Decentralization in Developing Economies

Gadenne, Lucie; Singhal, Monica - In: Annual Review of Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 581-604

Standard models of fiscal federalism suggest many benefits of decentralization in developing economies, and there has been a recent push toward decentralization around the world. However, developing countries presently still have less decentralization, particularly on the revenue side, than both...

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Education Economics from a Historical Perspective

Schüler, Ruth Maria - 2018

The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects prosperity and nation building in a setting of...

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Stimulating the Vote : ARRA Road Spending and Vote Share

Huet-Vaughn, Emiliano - 2017

This paper estimates the impact of public good spending on voting behavior in the United States, using a quasi-experimental design and the distribution of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) road improvement projects across the state of New Jersey. I find an approximate 1.7 percentage...

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