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Information and modeling issues in designing water and sanitation subsidy schemes

Gomez-Lobo, Andres; Foster, Vivien; Halpern, Jonathan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

In designing a rational scheme for subsidizing water services, it is important to support the choice of design parameters with empirical analysis that stimulates the impact of subsidy options on the target population. Otherwise, there is little guarantee that the subsidy program will meet its...

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Survey techniques to measure and explain corruption

Reinikka, Ritva; Svensson, Jakob - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

Reinikka and Svensson demonstrate that, with appropriate survey methods and interview techniques, it is possible to collect quantitative micro-level data on corruption. Public expenditure tracking surveys, service provider surveys, and enterprise surveys are highlighted with several...

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A framework for regulating microfinance institutions : the experience in Ghana and the Philippines

Gallardo, Joselito - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002

An earlier Policy Research Working Paper (Hennie van Greuning, Joselito Gallardo, and Bikki Randhawa,"A Framework for Regulating Microfinance Institutions,"WPS 2061, February 1999) presented a regulatory framework that identifies thresholds in financial intermediation activities that trigger a...

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Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients

Knack, Stephen; Rahman, Aminur - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

This paper analyzes the impact of donor fragmentation on the quality of government bureaucracy in aid-recipient nations. A formal model of a donor's decision to hire government administrators to manage donor-funded projects predicts that the number of administrators hired declines as the donor's...

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Educational expansion : evidence and interpretation

Gradstein, Mark; Nikitin, Denis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

The authors document the vast expansion of schooling over the past several decades, as well as convergence in schooling measures across countries. They make the observation that poor countries today have higher average education levels than countries at the same level of economic development had...

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Externalities and bailouts : hard and soft budget constraints in intergovernmental fiscal relations

Wildasin, David E. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1997

is concern, however, that fiscal decentralization may weaken fiscal discipline -that local authorities may undertake …-level governments, but others argue that such controls could undercut the goals of fiscal decentralization, including autonomy. The … fiscal decentralization produces perverse incentives or requires central government control over local fiscal policies. But …

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New tools and new tests in comparative political economy - the database of political institutions

Beck, Thorsten; Clarke, George; Groff, Alberto; Keefer, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

This paper introduces a large new cross-country database on political institutions: the Database on Political Institutions (DPI). The authors summarize key variables (many of them new), compare this data set with others, and explore the range of issues for which the data should prove invaluable....

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The political economy of privatization : an empirical analysis of bank privatization in Argentina

Clarke, George R.G.; Cull, Robert - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1998

The authors study the political economy of bank privatization in Argentina. The results of their study strongly support the hypothesis that political incentives affect the likelihood of privatization. They find that: a) provinces whose governors belonged to the fiscally conservative Partido...

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Do school facilities matter? : the case of the Peruvian Social Fund (FONCODES)

Paxson, Christina; Schady, Norbert - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

Since its creation in 1991, the Peruvian Social Fund (FONCODES) has spent about US$570 million funding micro-projects throughout Peru. Many of these projects have involved building and renovating school facilities. The authors analyze the targeting and impact of FONCODES investments in the...

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Growth without governance

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002

It is well known that there is a strong positive correlation between per capita incomes and the quality of governance across countries. the authors propose an empirical strategy that allows separation of this correlation into (1) a strong positive causal effect running from better governance to...

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