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Social Audits and MGNREGA Delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh
Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
panel data set assembled from official social audit reports, we study the impact of these audits on MGNREGA delivery in … are laid out and credibly enforced. Our findings suggest a changing anatomy of corruption, where transgressors keep one …
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Social Audits and MGNREGA Delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh
Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard - 2014
panel data set assembled from official social audit reports, we study the impact of these audits on MGNREGA delivery in … are laid out and credibly enforced. Our findings suggest a changing anatomy of corruption, where transgressors keep one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352295
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Measuring performance: ranking state success over two decades in India
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Chaudhuri, Arka Roy; … - 2021
This paper proposes new composite measures of relative and dynamic state performance to improve governance and delivery of public programs in developing countries with a federal structure. We rank the performance of 19 major Indian states on two large development programs launched by the Indian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583677
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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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Measuring Performance: Ranking State Success over Two Decades in India
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Chaudhuri, Arka Roy; … - 2021
This paper proposes new composite measures of relative and dynamic state performance to improve governance and delivery of public programs in developing countries with a federal structure. We rank the performance of 19 major Indian states on two large development programs launched by the Indian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658101
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Social accountability and service delivery : experimental evidence from Uganda
Fiala, Nathan; Premand, Patrick - 2018
Corruption and mismanagement of public resources can affect the quality of government services and undermine growth … significant information about where corruption and mismanagement is worse. We show evidence that the impacts come in part from … government-led, large-scale social accountability programs can strengthen communities’ ability to address corruption and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855046
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Grand corruption in the contracting out of public services : lessons from a pilot study in Colombia
Keefer, Philip; Roseth, Benjamin - 2021
study of informal audits and text messages to parents, meant to curb corruption in the School Meals Program of Colombia …
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Curbing grand corruption in the contracting out of public services lessons from a pilot study of the school meals program in Colombia
Keefer, Philip; Roseth, Benjamin - 2021
study of informal audits and text messages to parents, meant to curb corruption in the School Meals Program of Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670998
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Weapons of discontent? : sketching a research agenda on social accountability in the Arab Middle East and North Africa
Vloeberghs, Ward; Bergh, Sylvia I. - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597102
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Corruption and mental health: evidence from Vietnam
Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; Tarp, Finn - 2020
While there is substantial corruption in developing countries, the costs imposed by corruption on individuals and … households are little understood. This study examines the relationship between exposure to local corruption and mental health, as …-to-day petty corruption is positively associated with psychological distress. Our results are robust to a variety of specification …
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