The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new … disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and … alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small positive net effect of total aid on political institutions. Distinguishing …

requirements for improving them through the interdependence of policy, institutions, and finance. Corollary argument is that …) nexus of supply-side and demand-side of governance; (j) omnipresence of politics even in matters of local service delivery … policy, institutions, and finance; (iv) accountability could serve as an analytic framework of local service delivery; and (v …

institutions and capabilities and productivity of their actors; and the role of governance against the backdrop of development … constraints and supported by opportunities for reforms. It further argues that institutions and their actors take the primordial … is that governance - both institutional and democratic - is the key in helping catalyze institutional change and …

developed by Levy and Spiller (1993, 1994, 1996), the paper examined both governance structure and incentive model of the … institutional context. From the evidences presented, it may be inferred that Brazil has a solid governance structure for the … regulatory system. The stability of regulatory governance prevailed over political changes caused by government alternation, and …

transition economies. For a panel of about 60 countries over a time span of 25 years, we show that institutions play an ambiguous … role. Whereas international market integration exhibits no significant influence, good governance and property rights lead …

We test whether two key elements of the EU and euro area economic governance framework, the Stability and Growth Pact … governance pillars is evaluated based on both the performance before and after their application as well as against the control …

possibility of individuals to appeal to European courts to counter negative developments in governance in EU Member States. …

This paper reviews the political economy of extractive resources and the associated resources sector governance agenda …. The consensus that good sector governance improves the developmental impacts of extractive resources exploitation is … premised on the understanding that institutions matter for development. However, there is no straightforward answer to the …

the quality of their institutions and economic governance over the past decade, it is crucial that they preserve the …, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey. Sound institutions … competitiveness, labour market and education and institutional governance. When comparing EU CC/PCC among themselves, large intra …

Increasing the realism with respect to the representation of actors, decision-making, and institutions is critical to … better understand the transition towards a low-carbon sustainable society since actors, decision-making, and institutions are …