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Shine a (Night)Light: Decentralization and Economic Development in Burkina Faso

Bargain, Olivier B.; Vincent, Rose Camille; Caldeira, Emilie - 2024

Decentralization, championed by international institutions, has been one of the most prominent public sector reforms of … capacity to contribute to local development. We exploit the phase-in of decentralization at the commune level in Burkina Faso … impact of decentralization on the night-light intensity trends of the early-decentralized communes. This is supported by …

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Decentralizing Development: Evidence from Government Splits

Dahis, Ricardo; Szerman, Christiane - 2024

Changes in political boundaries aimed at devolving power to local governments are common in many countries. We examine the economic consequences of redistricting through the creation of smaller government units. Exploiting reforms that led to sharp variations in the number of government units in...

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Good governance and good aid allocation

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2008

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...

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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? An empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009

decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …

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Family migration: a vehicle of child morbidity in the informal settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?

Konseiga, Adama - 2008

context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their …

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Minimum wages in Kenya

Andalón, Mabel; Pagés, Carmen - 2008

This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement …

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Got technology? The impact of computers and cell phones on productivity in a difficult business climate ; evidence from firms with female owners in Kenya

Menon, Nidhiya - 2011

Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated … missionary schools from Kenya's colonial past, as well as geographical indicators such as rainfall, changes in forest cover, and …

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Distribution of natural resources, entrepreneurship and economic development: growth dynamics with two elites

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2005

This paper develops a model in which the interaction of entrepreneurial investments and power of the owners of land or other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural resources promotes structural change and growth through two...

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Monotheism (from a sociopolitical and economic perspective)

Iyigun, Murat - 2007

The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....

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Cultures, clashes and peace

Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - 2009

Ethnic and religious fractionalization have important effects on economic growth and development, but their role in internal violent conflicts has been found to be negligible and statistically insignificant. These findings have been invoked in refutation of the Huntington hypothesis, according...

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