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The Worldwide Governance Indicators And Tautology : Causally Related Separable Concepts, Indicators of A Common Cause, Or Both?
Langbein, Laura - 2008
Aggregate indexes of the quality of governance, covering large samples of countries, are widely used in research and in … empirically the dimensionality of the Worldwide Governance Indicators. The six indexes purportedly measure distinct concepts of … do not discriminate usefully among different aspects of governance. Rather, each of the indexes merely reflects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521090
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Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance : A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis
Knack, Stephen - 1999
July 2000 - Do higher levels of aid erode the very quality of governance poor countries need for sustained and rapid … income growth? Good governance-in the form of institutions that establish predictable, impartial, and consistently enforced … quality of governance, as measured by indexes of bureaucratic quality, corruption, and the rule of law. This negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524484
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Democracy, governance, and growth
Knack, Stephen F. (contributor); Knack, Stephen (ed.) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001678990
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Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets : Evidence from Firm Surveys in 88 Developing Countries
Knack, Stephen - 2017
procurement indicators are not strongly associated with other "governance"-related outcomes in firm surveys that are unrelated to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954322
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The Worldwide Governance Indicators and Tautology : Causally Related Separable Concepts, Indicators of a Common Cause, or Both?
Langbein, Laura; Knack, Stephen - 2012
Aggregate indexes of the quality of governance, covering large samples of countries, are widely used in research and in … empirically the dimensionality of the Worldwide Governance Indicators. The six indexes purportedly measure distinct concepts of … do not discriminate usefully among different aspects of governance. Rather, each of the indexes merely reflects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552460
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The Worldwide Governance Indicators and Tautology : Causally Related Separable Concepts, Indicators of a Common Cause, or Both?
Langbein, Laura - 2016
Aggregate indexes of the quality of governance, covering large samples of countries, are widely used in research and in … empirically the dimensionality of the Worldwide Governance Indicators. The six indexes purportedly measure distinct concepts of … do not discriminate usefully among different aspects of governance. Rather, each of the indexes merely reflects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747244
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Sovereign Rents and Quality of Tax Policy and Administration
Knack, Stephen - 2009
Windfall revenues from foreign aid or natural resource exports can weaken governments' incentives to design or maintain efficient tax systems. Cross-country data for developing countries provide evidence for this hypothesis, using a World Bank indicator on "efficiency of revenue mobilization."...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561689
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The Worldwide Governance Indicators : Six, One, or None?
Langbein, Laura; Knack, Stephen - 2010
Aggregate indexes of the quality of governance, covering large samples of countries, have become popular in comparative … Governance indicators. They purportedly measure distinct concepts of control of corruption, rule of law, government effectiveness … governance, we find that they appear to be measuring the same broad concept. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561709
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Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets : Evidence from Firm Surveys in 88 Developing Countries
Knack, Stephen - 2017
not strongly associated with other "governance"-related outcomes in firm surveys that are unrelated to procurement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246037
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Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators
Knack, Stephen; Keefer, Philip - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995
This paper compares more direct measures of the institutional environment with both the instability proxies used by Barro (1991) and the Gastil indices, by comparing their effects both on growth and private investment. The results provide substantial support for the position that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530718