, expertise, and financing. The United Nations and the World Bank have been involved in a number of such projects in Africa, Asia …

structure (such as the World Bank, the United Nations, or the European Union) that directly or indirectly collects the requisite …

This study investigates the impact of World Bank development policy lending on the quality of economic policy. It finds … using the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessments of macro, debt, fiscal and structural policies, and … previous studies based on earlier loans are consistent with claims by the World Bank that it has learned from its mistakes with …

term in office - the author compares voter behavior in local and national elections to make inferences about whether voters … 1960-92, she contrasts voters' behavior in state legislative assembly elections with their behavior in national legislative … elections. In state assembly elections voter reward incumbents for local income growth, and punish them for a rise in inequality …

Can democratic elections reduce rent extraction by public decision makers? Existing research suggests that reelection … elections could have an impact on embezzlement, even in the absence of reelection incentives: (1) electoral selection effects …, elections increase citizens' willingness to punish corrupt decision makers, even if their ability to do so remains unchanged …

spending around elections in the presence of younger political parties. Previous research has shown that political budget …

This study estimates the impact of Kenya’s post-election violence on individual risk preferences. Because the crisis … results indicate that the post-election violence sharply increased individual risk aversion. Immediately after the crisis, the …