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The costs of favoritism: is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010

As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...

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Project Aid and Firm Performance

Marchesi, Silvia; Masi, Tania; Paul, Saumik - 2021

This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from the World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using a large dataset of 110864 firms spanning 121 countries between 2001 and 2016. We find that, contrary to the World Bank, Chinese ODA projects increase, on average, firm sales...

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The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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Corruption Exposure, Political Trust, and Immigrants

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Eichengreen, Barry; Litina, Anastasia; … - 2024

to institutional corruption before migrating exhibit higher levels of political trust in their new country. Higher trust … participation and political engagement in the long run. The impact of home-country corruption on political trust in the destination …

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Can Crises Affect Citizen Activism? Evidence from a Pandemic

Afridi, Farzana; Basistha, Ahana; Dhillon, Amrita; … - 2024

March and July 2021, we elicit willingness to act against fraud and corruption in the provision of health services by … the COVID-19 peak in their state of residence, we find evidence of a large and significant increase in anti-corruption … activism post peak. Our data suggest that this surge in activism can be attributed to heightened perceptions of corruption in …

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Trust and Bribery : The Role of the Quid Pro Quo and the Link with Crime

Hunt, Jennifer - 2004

bribe, which reduces corruption. Appropriate networks are more easily established in small towns, by long-term residents of … battle against corruption faced by policy-makers in rapidly urbanizing countries with high fertility. I show that victims of …

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The determinants of asset stripping: theory and evidence from the transition economies

Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - 2005

During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...

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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction

Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2006

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …

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Public sector pay and corruption: measuring bribery from micro data

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2006

This study is the first to provide a systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings, household spending and asset holdings. We use the compensating differential framework and the estimated sectoral gap in reported earnings and expenditures to identify the size of...

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Corruption and bureaucratic structure in a developing economy

Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - 2006

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem …

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