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Social Audits and MGNREGA Delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh
Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
panel data set assembled from official social audit reports, we study the impact of these audits on MGNREGA delivery in … Andhra Pradesh, India. Within a dynamic conceptual framework where beneficiaries, auditors and transgressors interact and … are laid out and credibly enforced. Our findings suggest a changing anatomy of corruption, where transgressors keep one …
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Decentralization in Developing Economies
Gadenne, Lucie; Singhal, Monica - In: Annual Review of Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 581-604
Standard models of fiscal federalism suggest many benefits of decentralization in developing economies, and there has been a recent push toward decentralization around the world. However, developing countries presently still have less decentralization, particularly on the revenue side, than both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886216
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International Multidimensional Comparisons of Inequality in Disposable Income and Access to Public Goods.
Gravel, Nicolas; Moyes, Patrick; Tarroux, Benoît - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2005
This paper provides a comparison of 12 OECD countries on the basis of the (multidimensional) inequality in both disposable income and access to public goods. The public goods considered, measured at the regional level, are infant mortality and pupils/teacher ratios at public schools. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005512023
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Stratification and Public Utility Services in Colombia: Subsidies to Households or Distortions on Housing Prices?
Medina, Carlos; Morales, Leonardo - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2006
Domiciliary public utility services in Colombia have a cross subsidy system which charges subsidized rates to the households who live in houses located in strata associated to low wealth levels, and taxed rates to the better off. We assesses the hypothesis that the flow of subsidies that...
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The political economy of public investment and public finance: challenges for social democratic policies
Moudud, Jamee K.; Martinez-Hernandez, Francisco - In: Review of Keynesian Economics 2 (2014) 3, pp. 333-364
The ‘comprehensive socialization of investment’ was a key policy goal of The General Theory. And yet, empirically, we have seen a decline in the public investment share in most OECD countries since the economic crisis of the 1970s. In this paper we study several issues concerning...
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Developing a multi-dimensional environmental vulnerability (MEV) indicator for Mongolia
Anand, P B - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper describes the methodology and indicators selected in constructing a new multi-dimensional environmental vulnerability indicator for Mongolia. Most previous studies of environmental vulnerability use national level data. This study uses 16 sub-national indicators under three...
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The impact of Informal Credit on Poverty and Inequality: The Case of Vietnam
Nguyen Viet, Cuong; Van den Berg, Marrit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The informal credit market remains an important source of finance for the poor in Vietnam. Yet, little if anything is known about the ultimate impact of informal loans on poverty and inequality. If informal credit is an important means to decrease poverty, the government may want to reconsider...
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¿Qué hay detrás de un cambio en la productividad hospitalaria?
Guzmán-Finol, Karelys - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - ECONOMÍA REGIONAL - 2015
El objetivo de esta investigación es identificar los factores que habrían influido en los cambios de la productividad hospitalaria estimados por Orozco (2014) para el periodo 2003-2011. Para esto se analizarán los casos de cuatro hospitales públicos que experimentaron los cambios de mayor y...
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Zum politischen Machtwechsel in Griechenland. Die Parlamentswahlen von Januar 2015 aus einem kritischen Blickwinkel
Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The Greek parliamentary elections in January .2015 led to a foreseeable change in government. The coalition government between the conservative Nea Dimokratia and of the socialist PASOK, become replaced. by a coalition government between the left wing coalition party SYRIZA and the extreme...
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Decentralization in Developing Economies
Singhal, Monica; Gadenne, Lucie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Standard models of fiscal federalism suggest many benefits of decentralization in developing economies, and there has been a recent push toward decentralization around the world. However, developing countries presently still have less decentralization, particularly on the revenue side, than both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822001