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female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in … panel of audit reports, governance improves as female leaders accumulate experience. These results suggest that female … political leadership may generate gains in governance but only after the initial, gendered disadvantages recede. Our findings …
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In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations on foreign direct investment (FDI). We use Korean outward FDI data covering the manufacturing sector for 2009-15. The study not only considers the stringency but also the...
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The validity of existing empirical tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH) is constantly under scrutiny due to two shortcomings. First, the issues of unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error in environmental regulation are typically ignored due to the lack of a credible, traditional...
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How does foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization shape structural transformation and demographic change in developing countries? We provide new evidence on this question using five waves of Chinese census data between 1990 and 2015, exploiting quasi-exogenous variation in FDI...
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We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth …
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The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on … the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher … host corruption will be associated with higher foreign ownership. However, costs may exceed or exactly compensate the …
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In 2002, an amendment to UK parliamentary regulations removed restrictions on the participation of members of parliament (MPs) in parliamentary proceedings related to their corporate interests. Using this amendment as a quasi-natural experiment, we demonstrate gains in firm value and...
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Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses meta-analysis techniques to … corruption on growth from 41 empirical studies. The main factors explaining the variation in these estimates are whether the … model accounts for institutions and trade openness (both are found to deflate the negative effect of corruption), authors …
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economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. Finally, the various …
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Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public service delivery in India. Existing research suggests that the … corruption. There is near consensus, however, that India has had limited success in reducing poverty and enhancing human capital … incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported …
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