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Aid and trust in country systems 0 0 0 144 0 1 2 254
Aid dependence and the quality of governance: a cross-country empirical analysis 1 4 7 751 2 12 24 1,658
Aid quality and donor rankings 1 1 1 120 2 2 4 262
Aid tying and donor fragmentation 0 0 0 55 0 0 3 206
Are larger countries really more corrupt? 0 0 0 351 0 2 7 2,694
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid ? 0 0 1 21 1 2 5 72
Bilateralizing multilateral aid? Aid allocation by World Bank trust funds 0 0 0 47 0 0 0 149
Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure 0 0 0 212 0 0 0 779
Building or bypassing recipient country systems: are donors defying the Paris declaration ? 1 1 1 32 1 1 2 93
Building trust: public policy, interpersonal trust and economic development 0 0 1 153 0 1 7 475
Civic norms, social sanctions and voting turnout 0 2 3 65 0 5 10 275
Contract Intensive Money 0 0 6 291 1 10 27 1,428
Crossing the threshold: an analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 0 0 58 0 0 3 231
Determinants of lasting democracy in poor countries 0 0 0 37 1 1 3 119
Deterring kickbacks and encouraging entry in public procurement markets: evidence from firm surveys in 88 developing countries 0 0 1 21 0 2 6 39
Did states' motor voter programs help the Democrats? 0 0 0 6 1 1 3 38
Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy? 0 0 7 96 1 2 12 228
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 2 60 0 1 3 226
Does motor voter work? Evidence from state-level data 0 0 0 18 0 0 1 119
Donor fragmentation 0 0 4 52 1 1 7 158
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 2 2 3 430 2 3 6 1,127
Drivers Wanted: Motor Voter and the Election of 1996 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 38
Election Day Registration: The Second Wave 0 0 0 15 0 0 0 79
Election-day registration and turnout inequality 0 0 0 23 0 0 0 91
Empowerment as a zero-sum game 0 0 1 40 1 1 5 291
For shame! The effect of community cooperative context on the probability of voting 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 56
Foreign aid and market-liberalizing reform 0 0 0 217 0 1 1 614
Gender and Corruption 1 1 5 1,382 2 6 20 4,247
Gender and Corruption 0 0 0 101 0 1 3 395
Governance and growth: measurement and evidence 0 0 0 61 0 1 4 191
How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income Countries ? 0 0 1 37 0 2 3 59
Individual and country-level factors affecting support for foreign aid 0 0 1 169 1 4 11 683
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 3 6 12 751 5 10 27 1,701
Interactions among donors'aid allocations: evidence from an exogenous World Bank income threshold 0 0 0 73 0 0 1 87
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 0 0 0 141 2 2 10 503
It's only words: validating the CPIA governance assessments 0 0 0 25 0 0 0 73
Measuring corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: a critique of the cross-country indicators 0 1 8 381 0 2 13 868
Moving Up the Ladder: An Analysis of IDA Graduation Policy 0 0 3 20 1 3 11 132
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 0 0 0 33 0 1 4 66
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 1 4 10 683 10 17 39 2,097
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 0 0 54 0 0 1 203
Poverty and policy selectivity of World Bank trust funds 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 40
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 1 106 1 3 11 392
Roll-off at the top of the ballot: intentional undervoting in American presidential elections 0 0 1 15 0 0 4 183
Second generation governance indicators 0 1 3 70 0 2 5 174
Social capital and the quality of Government: evidence from the U.S. States 0 0 2 523 0 2 12 1,427
Social capital, growth and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence 0 0 4 134 1 4 16 348
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 1 293 1 3 11 956
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 0 1 5 533
Sovereign rents and the quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 0 85 0 1 2 182
Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid 0 0 1 13 0 0 2 35
The Effect of Aid on Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment 1 1 6 87 3 4 19 246
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: theory and evidence 0 0 0 64 0 0 0 217
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a quasi-experiment 0 0 1 160 0 1 4 339
The reappearing American voter why did turnout rise in '92? 0 0 0 7 2 4 20 70
The worldwide governance indicators and tautology: causally related separable concepts, indicators of a common cause, or both ? 0 0 1 148 0 3 13 426
Toward More Operationally Relevant Indicators of Governance 0 0 1 7 0 1 2 23
Trust, assocational life, and economic performance 0 5 9 124 0 10 30 600
Unbundling institutions for external finance: worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 0 38 1 2 3 86
Viewers like you: community norms and contributions to public broadcasting 0 0 0 7 0 0 4 90
Voided Ballot in the 1996 Presidential Election: A County-Level Analysis 0 0 0 10 0 1 2 90
When do donors trust recipient country systems ? 0 0 1 65 0 1 4 147
Which donors, which funds ? the choice of multilateral funds by bilateral donors at the World Bank 0 0 1 22 0 2 4 53
Who Uses Inferior Voting Technology? 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 77
World Bank lending and the quality of economic policy 0 0 1 78 2 2 3 98
World Bank lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 1 3 0 1 2 9
World Bank policy lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 0 27 0 1 1 80
Total Working Papers 11 29 113 9,518 46 147 469 30,025


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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AID, ECONOMIC FREEDOM, AND GROWTH 0 0 1 58 0 1 3 162
Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: Cross‐Country Empirical Tests 0 1 5 7 1 4 13 25
Aid Quality and Donor Rankings 1 1 4 36 2 3 12 146
Aid Tying and Donor Fragmentation 0 0 1 35 9 20 41 206
Aid and donor trust in recipient country systems 0 0 0 59 0 0 1 229
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid? 0 1 1 4 2 3 5 9
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 2 4 7 206 2 5 12 540
Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems: Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration? 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 43
Civic Norms, Social Sanctions, and Voter Turnout 0 0 0 5 0 1 7 27
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 0 0 1 687 0 1 6 2,185
Crossing the threshold: A positive analysis of IBRD graduation policy 1 1 1 25 1 1 4 141
Determinants of Economic Growth By Robert Barro. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 145. $22.50 0 2 3 3 0 2 4 6
Determinants of Lasting Democracy in Poor Countries: Culture, Development, and Institutions 0 0 4 5 0 0 4 7
Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets: Evidence from Firm Surveys in 90 Developing Countries 0 1 2 13 0 1 3 43
Deterring Voter Registration Through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data 0 0 0 12 0 1 2 87
Deterring Voter Registration through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 97
Does Rain Help the Republicans? Theory and Evidence on Turnout and the Vote 0 0 0 0 0 3 8 555
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 3 10 67 536 4 18 169 5,579
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 0 2 9 560 6 12 33 1,496
Foreign Aid and Market‐Liberalizing Reform 0 0 4 92 1 2 9 296
Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 2 118 1 1 17 2,051
Gender and corruption 2 4 34 1,152 9 23 124 3,570
Groups, Growth and Trust: Cross-Country Evidence on the Olson and Putnam Hypotheses 0 0 0 185 1 1 4 453
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 5 12 76 1,322 13 30 182 3,728
Institutions and the Convergence Hypothesis: The Cross-National Evidence 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 872
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 1 1 3 47 1 2 5 231
Measuring Corruption: A Critique of Indicators in Eastern Europe and Central Asia 0 0 0 15 0 1 3 54
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 0 0 0 14 0 2 3 87
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 0 0 6 204 2 4 22 646
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 0 0 9 4 5 8 91
Poverty and Policy Selectivity of World Bank Trust Funds 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 28
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 2 5 16 986
Sovereign rents and quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 0 42 1 2 7 157
The Voter Participation Effects of Selecting Jurors from Registration Lists 0 0 1 2 0 1 2 182
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Six, One, or None? 0 2 5 331 3 7 23 879
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: Theory and evidence 0 0 0 31 0 0 2 133
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a Quasi-experiment 1 5 24 468 10 34 129 3,390
Trade intensity, country size and corruption 0 0 1 223 1 4 5 568
Trust and Growth 0 0 0 2,084 4 29 43 5,611
Unbundling institutions for external finance: Worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 1 14 0 0 3 59
Which Donors, Which Funds? Bilateral Donors' Choice of Multilateral Funds at the World Bank 0 0 1 8 0 1 4 40
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 2 11 30 2,541
World Bank Lending and the Quality of Economic Policy 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 24
World Bank Policy Lending and the Quality of Public-Sector Governance 0 0 1 12 1 2 5 74
Total Journal Articles 16 47 265 8,655 85 245 980 38,334


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Mapped In or Mapped Out? The Romanian Poor in Inter-household and Community Networks 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 62
Total Books 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 62


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 10
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 18
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 0 4 15 58
Total Chapters 0 0 0 0 0 7 25 86


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