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Gharafutdinova, Gulnaz - 2017

The paper uses the latest 2011 round of the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey for the Russian Federation, which for the first time was designed to be representative of Russian regions. The paper takes a closer look at regional-level factors influencing the business...

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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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Glass Barriers : Constraints to Women's Small-Scale Cross-Border Trade in Cambodia and Lao Pdr

Seror, Marlon Armand Remy - 2017

Trade facilitation projects often assume indirect benefits for small-scale, cross-border traders. Recent studies have shown the challenges faced in Africa by this population, especially women, but it remains unknown in Cambodia and the Lao People's Democratic Republic, despite large trade...

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Deals and Delays : Firm-Level Evidence on Corruption and Policy Implementation Times

Freund, Caroline L. - 2017

that corruption enhances efficiency …

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Corruption and Decentralized Public Governance

Shah, Anwar - 2006

This paper examines the conceptual and empirical basis of corruption and governance and concludes that decentralized … local governance is conducive to reduced corruption in the long run. This is because localization helps to break the … as a means to making government responsive and accountable to people can help reduce corruption and improve service …

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Infrastructure Governance and Corruption : Where Next?

Kenny, Charles - 2016

Governance is central to development outcomes in infrastructure, not least because corruption (a symptom of failed … - primarily at the sector level - to improve governance and reduce the development impact of corruption. The discussion covers … governance) can have significantly negative impact on returns to infrastructure investment. This conclusion holds whether …

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Governance and Public Service Delivery in Europe and Central Asia : Unofficial Payments, Utilization and Satisfaction

Diagne, Mame Fatou - 2017

Using data from the 2010 Life in Transition Survey, this paper examines the levels of citizens'satisfaction with public service delivery in Europe and Central Asia and identifies some factors that may help explain variation in utilization and levels of satisfaction with service delivery. It...

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Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

India's manufacturing growth from 1989 to 2010 displays two intriguing properties: 1) a substantial fraction of …

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Regulation and Noncompliance : Magnitudes and Patterns for India's Factories Act

Chatterjee, Urmila - 2017

sources, this paper quantifies noncompliance for India's Factories Act without the question of illegality ever being raised … the Factories Act is a key feature of the "missing middle" in India. The paper explores the main trends and patterns of …

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Toward Labor Market Policy 2.0 : The Potential for Using Online Job-Portal Big Data to Inform Labor Market Policies in India

Nomura, Shinsaku - 2018

Economists and other social scientists are increasingly using big data analytics to address longstanding economic questions and complement existing information sources. Big data produced by online platforms can yield a wealth of diverse, highly granular, multidimensional information with a...

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