designed to capture the population's desire for better governance. Using data from a tailored household survey, we examine the … those who emigrated to countries with better governance. …

incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported … Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public service delivery in India. Existing research suggests that the …

. We study the conditions under which a state of law can be implemented under oligarchy, and when democratization is … necessary. Inequality in endowments and incomes prolongs the absence of good institutions and delays democratization. Conversely …

(consensual crowding out). And finally, the more a government supports democratization, the lower is the individual's engagement …

This paper investigates the role of violent civil conflicts during the process of democratization for the quality of … different groups may engage in violent conflict in order to become the ruler predicts a crucial role of the democratization … scenario. A peaceful democratization leads to democracies with a high degree of civil liberties, reflecting a social contract …

. Exploiting within-country variation to identify the effect of democratization during the Third Wave, we find evidence that the … effect of democratization is weaker than reported previously once one accounts for the incidence of conflict, while the … significantly reduce the incidence and onset of conflict, which suggests that part of the positive growth effect of democratization …

We study the role of trade liberalization, democratization and their interaction for technology adoption. A general … accelerate technology adoption if coupled with democratization but may lead to a slow down if these regime changes are imbalanced … variation and the heterogenous timing of openness and democratization. The results document the existence of robust positive …

, and input-output relations in the South. The main findings are: (i) Education and governance raise the level of TFP … directly; and (ii) education and governance also raise TFP through their interaction with foreign R&D in R …) that taking into account the interaction effects between trade, education and governance by reforming the policies …

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for … in terms of achieving good governance, and to the recipients in terms of what they receive. The leaders of potential … receiving countries prefer that each country obtains the proportion of aid relative to its governance quality. If poverty …