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The impact of ICT on educational performance and its efficiency in selected EU and OECD countries: a non-parametric analysis

Aristovnik, Aleksander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The purpose of the paper is to review some previous researches examining ICT efficiency and the impact of ICT on educational output/outcome as well as different conceptual and methodological issues related to performance measurement. Moreover, a definition, measurements and the empirical...

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Should Market Liberalization Precede Democracy? Causal Relations between Political Preferences and Development

Grosjean, Pauline; Senik, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper is dedicated to the relation between market development and democracy. We distinguish contexts and preferences and ask whether it is true that the demand for democracy only emerges after a certain degree of market development is reached, and whether, conversely, democratization is...

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Employment in Private and Public Services: A Comparative Analysis of Commercial, Business and Social Services in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, UK and USA.

Guisan, M.C. - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 10 (2010) 1, pp. 71-81

The European Union (EU) present lower average rates of employment and lower average wages than the United States of America, due to the lack of enough economic policies addressed to foster employment in private and public services in all their countries and regions, with a few positive...

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Reforming the Slovak public sector

Demmou, Lilas; Price, Robert W. - 2015

corruption. The regulatory framework could also be more business friendly and the judicial system more efficient. Boosting public …

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The Impact of Mixed Electoral Representation on Economic Growth : The Case of the Italian Regions

Alfano, Maria Rosaria - 2012

in which corruption affects regional growth depends on the proportionality of the electoral system …

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The Sad Triology - The Crisis of a Nation : The Delirium

Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2011

This is the first part of a book I started writing in the year 2008 under the title of Sad Triology: The Crisis of a Nation. I name this chapter the Delirium as it represents the political response to what happens in the country due to the international outrage and pressures to Darfur Crisis....

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Bureaucratic Discretion and Contracting Outcomes

Boland, Matthew - 2020

We find that federal bureaucrats award more, larger, and less risky contracts to politically connected firms when they have greater discretion over contracting outcomes. Using a sample of 4.3 million federal government contract actions obligating $2.47 trillion between 2000 and 2015, we show...

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Strengthening Italy’s public sector effectiveness

Bulman, Tim - 2021

Raising the effectiveness of Italy’s public sector is more urgent than ever. It will be key to revive investment and productivity and improve access to quality public services for the most vulnerable. The quality of public goods and services is variable, weakening Italy’s resilience to...

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The Persistence of Corruption and Slow Economic Growth

Mauro, Paolo - In: IMF Staff Papers 51 (2004) 1, pp. 1-1

There is increasing recognition that corruption has substantial, adverse effects on economic growth. But if the costs … of corruption are so high, why don't countries strive to improve their institutions and root out corruption? Why do many … countries appear to be stuck in vicious circles of widespread corruption and low economic growth, often accompanied by ever …

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Donor Contracting Conditions and Public Procurement : Causal Evidence from Kenyan Electrification

Wolfram, Catherine D.; Miguel, Edward; Hsu, Eric; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

There is limited causal evidence on the effects of different public procurement regulations on project quality and value-for-money for projects funded by national governments and foreign aid donors. This paper uses policy and experimental variation to study how two key contracting...

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