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Using unique village census data collected in 2003 and 2008 in Senegal, we assess the impact of a major World Bank …
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Development aid does not always exert the desired positive effect on economic growth in recipient countries and it is even feared that it may reduce total factor productivity (TFP) and may discourage recipient countries ́efforts. This study seeks to contribute to the research on aid...
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Despite controversial debates about the social acceptability of its nationalist program, the rightwing populist AfD has recently entered all state parliaments as well as the federal parliament in Germany. Although professed AfD voters faced a likely risk of social stigmatization, electoral...
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Das Thema 'Freiwilliges Engagement' hat in den vergangenen Jahren sowohl politisch als auch gesellschaftlich Konjunktur. Ein Grund dafür ist, dass sich die Politik und einige Forscher:innen vom freiwilligen Engagement der Bevölkerung positive gesellschaftliche Auswirkungen versprechen - sowohl...
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Social investment funds are prominent instruments in developing countries that aim at providing financial resources for social infrastructure projects to poor municipalities. In contrast to traditional, more centralised distribution mechanisms of such funds, the Bolivian Fondo de Inversión...
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This paper shows that high energy subsidies and low public social spending can emerge as an equilibrium outcome of a political game between the elite and the middle-class when the provision of public goods is subject to bottlenecks, reflecting weak domestic institutions. We test this and other...
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The article investigates the allocation of collaborative efforts among core developers (maintainers) of open source software by analyzing on-line development traces (logs) for a set of 10 large projects. We specifically investigate whether the division of labor within open-source projects is...
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