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Gender-responsive budgeting as fiscal innovation: Evidence from India on "processes"

Chakraborty, Lekha S. - 2014

Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) is a fiscal innovation. Innovation, for the purposes of this paper, is defined as a … meets identified problems. GRB is a fiscal innovation in that it translates gender commitments into fiscal commitments by … benefit incidence. The theoretical treatment of gender budgeting as a fiscal innovation is not incorporated, as the focus of …

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Institutions and behavior: Experimental evidence on the effects of democracy

Dal Bó, Pedro; Foster, Andrew; Putterman, Louis - 2007

We present results from a novel experiment on the effect of a policy designed to encourage cooperation in a prisoner's dilemma game. We find that the effect of this policy on the level of cooperation is greater when it was chosen democratically by the subjects than when it was exogenously...

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Economic reforms: Policy and institutions some lessons from Indian reforms

Virmani, Arvind - 2004

Economic policy and policy reform over the last few decades has been motivated by the need to accelerate growth or equivalently to reverse a decline in growth rate. The economic literature on the determinants of growth has burgeoned and disagreement has followed consensus on the policy...

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Institutions, Geography and Trade: A Panel Data Study

Jacob, Jeffry; Osang, Thomas - Southern Methodist University, Department of Economics - 2007

A number of recent papers study the impact of institutions, trade and geography known as “deep determinants” of economic development using cross-section data. This paper instead employs a panel data approach to examine the impact of these three determinants on per capita income. Our approach...

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Values, Beliefs and Development

Jacob, Jeffry; Osang, Thomas - Southern Methodist University, Department of Economics - 2007

This paper investigates the consequences of religion for economic development. In particular, we examine whether religious attitudes, beliefs, participation and preference contribute to differences in per capita income across countries. Using a large scale international survey on values and...

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Roots of autocracy

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - 2015

This research explores the origins of the variation in the prevalence and nature of political institutions across globe. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variation in the inherent diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of Homo...

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Individual and structural influences on the entrepreneurial activities of academics

Bijedić, Teita; Maaß, Frank; Schröder, Christian; … - 2016

In this paper we study how and to what extend (i) individual working conditions (e.g. peers, working atmosphere, work contract incentives, wage satisfaction), (ii) institutions (e.g. technology transfer offices, patent exploitation agencies, chair in entrepreneurship or awards for academic...

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