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Governance and public service delivery in India

Afridi, Farzana - 2017

Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public service delivery in India. Existing research suggests that the … incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported …

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Education, governance and trade-related technology diffusion in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor); Wang, Yanling (contributor) - 2004

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Prospective NATO or EU membership and institutional change in transition countries

Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009

the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 … institutional development. -- EU ; NATO ; transition economies ; institutional change ; governance …

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Women political leaders, corruption and learning : evidence from a large public program in India

Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard; Sharan, M. R. - 2013

female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in … panel of audit reports, governance improves as female leaders accumulate experience. These results suggest that female … political leadership may generate gains in governance but only after the initial, gendered disadvantages recede. Our findings …

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Decentralization and the productive efficiency of government : evidence from Swiss cantons

Barankay, Iwan (contributor); Lockwood, Ben (contributor) - 2006

Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of government services. This paper is one of the first to evaluate this claim empirically by looking at the association between expenditure decentralization and the productive...

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Sluggish institutions in a dynamic world : can unions and industrial competition coexist?

Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor) - 2007

During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U … in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm to one of constrained managerial discretion. In competitive and … evolving nonunion governance norms. …

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Inequality, institutions and cooperation

Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020

We examine the effects of randomly introduced economic inequality on voluntary co- operation and whether this relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large-scale lab-in-the-field public goods experiment with...

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