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Informality, harassment, and corruption : evidence from informal enterprise data from Harare, Zimbabwe
Francis, David - 2019
New representative survey data for Harare, Zimbabwe are used to analyze the conditions under which informal businesses encounter requests for bribes. A simple model develops basic expectations of bribe exposure: those with higher opportunity costs of formalizing and with a higher ability to pay...
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Electoral accountability and local government spending in Indonesia
Skoufias, Emmanuel; Narayan, Ambar; Dāśagupta, Bāsaba; … - 2014
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Voter response to natural disaster aid : quasi-experimental evidence from drought relief payments in Mexico
Fuchs, Alan; Rodriguez-Chamussy, Lourdes - 2014
The paper estimates the effects on presidential election returns in Mexico of a government climatic contingency transfer that is allocated through rainfall-indexed insurance. The analysis uses the discontinuity in payments that slightly deviate from a pre-established threshold, based on rainfall...
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Blending top-down federalism with bottom-up engagement to reduce inequality in Ethiopia
Khan, Qaiser; Faguet, Jean-Paul; Ambel, Alemayehu - 2015
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Ponzis : the science and mystique of a class of financial frauds
Basu, Kaushik - 2014
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Credit constraints and fraud victimization : evidence from a representative Chinese household survey
Gao, Nan; Ma, Yuanyuan; Xu, Lixin Colin - 2020
Using a novel, nationally representative data set on fraud victimization, this paper examines the impact of credit … constraints on fraud victimization and potential underlying mechanisms in Chinese urban areas. After controlling for other … points higher probability of becoming fraud victims, and have 20.4 percent higher subsequent economic losses from fraud when …
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Informal payments and moonlighting in Tajikistan's health sector
Dabalen, Andrew (contributor); Wane, Waly (contributor) - 2008
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Governance, corruption and trade in the Asia Pacific region
Abe, Kazutomo (contributor); Wilson, John S. (contributor) - 2008
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Corruption and decentralized public governance
Shah, Anwar - 2006
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Grand corruption in utilities
Kenny, Charles (contributor); Søreide, Tina (contributor) - 2008
"This paper discusses mechanisms of grand corruption in private sector utility provision in developing countries. By the term "grand corruption," the authors abstract from the petty corruption that consumers experience - for example, when firms and individuals pay bribes to get water delivery or...
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