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The Role of Governance in Determining Foreign Aid Flow Composition

Winters, Matthew S.; Martinez, Gina - In: World Development 66 (2015) C, pp. 516-531

We hypothesize that selective donors will use types of aid over which they have more control when providing assistance to poorly governed countries. We use an original classification of project purpose codes in the AidData dataset to categorize aid flows from the period 2004 to 2010. Results...

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Participatory Democracy and Effective Policy: Is There a Link? Evidence from Rural Peru

Jaramillo, Miguel; Wright, Glenn Daniel - In: World Development 66 (2015) C, pp. 280-292

to examine (a) bottom-up, grassroots participatory governance institutions, and (b) Peru’s top-down participatory …

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Improving Governance for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals: Scenario Forecasting the Next 50years

Joshi, Devin K.; Hughes, Barry B.; Sisk, Timothy D. - In: World Development 70 (2015) C, pp. 286-302

Covering three fundamental governance transitions historically characteristic of modern states—the provision of … governance through the year 2060 for 183 countries utilizing a long-term, dynamic, integrated global futures modeling system … suggests that timely and effective interventions to strengthen governance and implement pro-poor development policies will …

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Formalizing Indigenous Commons: The Role of ‘Authority’ in the Formation of Territories in Nicaragua, Bolivia, and the Philippines

Larson, Anne M.; Cronkleton, Peter J.; Pulhin, Juan M. - In: World Development 70 (2015) C, pp. 228-238

Indigenous peoples have sometimes sought the formalization of their customary territories to ensure the enforcement of their borders. The process of formalization, however, generates new conflicts. The process of constituting collective territories is intimately related to the constitution of...

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How Much Do Rights Matter?

Fedderke, Johannes; Klitgaard, Robert - In: World Development 51 (2013) C, pp. 187-206

Do better political rights yield more economic development? By addressing the econometric challenges plaguing this question, we find support for a positive impact of rights on development. For a significant grouping of countries the association is nonlinear: the positive impact of rights is...

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Revenue Reform and Statebuilding in Anglophone Africa

Moore, Mick - In: World Development 60 (2014) C, pp. 99-112

Although increasingly justified in terms of statebuilding, recent tax reforms in anglophone Africa contributed only modestly to that goal. They have produced impressive tax agencies, but no detectable increases in revenue collections. They have not addressed some major deficiencies in tax policy...

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Paths to Development: Is there a Bangladesh Surprise?

Asadullah, M. Niaz; Savoia, Antonio; Mahmud, Wahiduddin - In: World Development 62 (2014) C, pp. 138-154

conclude by speculating on the role of Bangladesh’s development to sustain the process of growth and on the role of governance …

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Bad Governance and Poor Children: A Comparative Analysis of Government Efficiency and Severe Child Deprivation in 68 Low- and Middle-income Countries

Halleröd, Björn; Rothstein, Bo; Daoud, Adel; Nandy, … - In: World Development 48 (2013) C, pp. 19-31

Research on democratization and quality of government (QoG) has highlighted the impact of poor governance on people …

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Integrated Landscape Initiatives for African Agriculture, Development, and Conservation: A Region-Wide Assessment

Milder, Jeffrey C.; Hart, Abigail K.; Dobie, Philip; … - In: World Development 54 (2014) C, pp. 68-80

Recent years have witnessed increased investment in African rural landscapes for agriculture and food security, poverty alleviation, climate change adaptation, and ecosystem conservation. While such investments historically tended to be made independently under sectoral programs, a new wave of...

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Protecting Power: How Western States Retain The Dominant Voice in The World Bank’s Governance

Vestergaard, Jakob; Wade, Robert H. - In: World Development 46 (2013) C, pp. 153-164

The global economic crisis raised the urgency of reforming the Bretton Woods organizations in order to get more “buy in” from developing countries. But the “voice” reforms announced in 2010, heralded as a major shift in favor of developing countries, left them severely under-represented...

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