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How Does Bribery Affect Public Service Delivery? Micro-Evidence from Service Users and Public Officials in Peru

Kaufmann, Daniel; Montoriol-Garriga, Judit; Recanatini, … - 2012

explores the price and quantity components of the relationship between governance and service delivery using micro-level survey … data. The authors construct new measures of governance using data from users of public services from 13 government agencies …

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Leveraging Land to Enable Urban Transformation : Lessons from Global Experience

Lozano-Gracia, Nancy; Young, Cheryl; Lall, Somik V. - 2013

Around the world, in both developed and developing countries, policy makers use a variety of tools to manage and accommodate urban growth and redevelopment. Government officials have three main concerns in terms of land policy: (i) accommodating urban expansion, (ii) providing infrastructure,...

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Poverty Reduction during the Rural-Urban Transformation : The Role of the Missing Middle

Christiaensen, Luc J.; Todō, Yasuyuki - 2013

As countries develop, they restructure away from agriculture and urbanize. But structural transformation and urbanization patterns differ substantially, with some countries fostering migration out of agriculture into rural off farm activities and secondary towns, and others undergoing rapid...

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Urbanization and Property Rights

Cai, Yongyang; Selod, Harris; Steinbuks, Jevgenijs - 2015

Since the industrial revolution, the economic development of Western Europe and North America was characterized by continuous urbanization accompanied by a gradual phasing-in of urban land property rights over time. Today, however, the evidence in many fast urbanizing low-income countries points...

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Growing through Cities in Developing Countries

Duranton, Gilles - 2014

This paper examines the effects of urbanization on development and growth. It begins with a labor market perspective and emphasizes the importance of agglomeration economies, both static and dynamic. It then argues that more productive jobs in cities do not exist in a void and underscores the...

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Demography, Urbanization and Development : Rural Push, Urban Pull and ... Urban Push?

Christiaensen, Luc J.; Gindelsky, Marina; Jedwab, Remi - 2015

Developing countries have urbanized rapidly since 1950. To explain urbanization, standard models emphasize rural-urban migration, focusing on rural push factors (agricultural modernization and rural poverty) and urban pull factors (industrialization and urban-biased policies). Using new...

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The Distributional Incidence of Residential Water and Electricity Subsidies

Komives, Kristin; Halpern, Jonathan; Foster, Vivien - 2012

Subsidies to residential utility customers are popular among policymakers, utility managers, and utility customers alike, but they are nonetheless the subject of much controversy. Utility subsidies are seen as a way to help make utility service affordable for poor households and as an...

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Infrastructure and Public Utilities Privatization in Developing Countries

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M. - 2012

The paper analyzes governments' tradeoff between fiscal benefits and consumer surplus in privatization reforms of noncompetitive industries in developing countries. Under privatization, the control rights are transferred to private interests so that public subsidies decline. This benefit for...

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Utilities Reforms and Corruption in Developing Countries

Estache, Antonio; Goicoechea, Ana; Trujillo Castellano, … - 2012

This paper shows empirically that "privatization" in the energy, telecommunications, and water sectors, and the introduction of independent regulators in those sectors, have not always had the expected effects on access, affordability, or quality of services. It also shows that corruption leads...

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Regulatory Effectiveness : The Impact of Regulation and Regulatory Governance Arrangements on Electricity Industry Outcomes

Stern, Jon; Cubbin, John - 2012

The authors review a number of studies on the effectiveness of utility regulatory agency and governance arrangements … for the electricity industry, particularly for developing countries. They discuss governance criteria and their … econometric studies of independent central banks and their governance. The authors conclude with a discussion of policy …

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