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Aid and trust in country systems 1 1 1 145 4 4 17 271
Aid dependence and the quality of governance: a cross-country empirical analysis 1 2 9 760 5 18 68 1,733
Aid quality and donor rankings 0 0 0 120 0 2 12 274
Aid tying and donor fragmentation 0 0 0 55 0 1 9 217
Are larger countries really more corrupt? 0 1 3 354 0 9 59 2,754
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid ? 0 0 0 21 0 2 10 83
Bilateralizing multilateral aid? Aid allocation by World Bank trust funds 0 0 1 48 0 10 20 171
Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure 0 0 0 212 0 1 23 802
Building or bypassing recipient country systems: are donors defying the Paris declaration ? 1 1 1 33 1 6 13 106
Building trust: public policy, interpersonal trust and economic development 0 1 3 156 2 9 36 513
Civic norms, social sanctions and voting turnout 1 1 4 69 1 5 15 290
Contract Intensive Money 0 0 1 294 0 4 21 1,454
Crossing the threshold: an analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 0 2 60 2 17 31 264
Determinants of lasting democracy in poor countries 0 0 1 38 0 1 3 122
Deterring kickbacks and encouraging entry in public procurement markets: evidence from firm surveys in 88 developing countries 0 0 0 21 0 1 6 46
Did states' motor voter programs help the Democrats? 0 0 1 7 0 6 12 50
Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy? 0 0 2 98 1 6 18 249
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 0 60 0 4 12 238
Does motor voter work? Evidence from state-level data 0 0 0 18 0 3 15 134
Donor fragmentation 1 1 1 53 1 4 13 171
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 0 2 5 435 0 7 31 1,159
Drivers Wanted: Motor Voter and the Election of 1996 0 0 0 4 0 2 11 51
Election Day Registration: The Second Wave 0 0 0 15 1 5 12 91
Election-day registration and turnout inequality 0 0 0 23 0 3 6 97
Empowerment as a zero-sum game 0 0 0 40 0 5 16 307
For shame! The effect of community cooperative context on the probability of voting 0 0 0 9 0 4 7 63
Foreign aid and market-liberalizing reform 0 0 0 217 1 3 15 630
Gender and Corruption 1 1 1 1,384 1 6 33 4,286
Gender and Corruption 0 0 3 104 0 1 18 414
Governance and growth: measurement and evidence 0 0 3 64 0 1 12 205
How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income Countries ? 0 1 1 38 0 5 81 143
Individual and country-level factors affecting support for foreign aid 0 0 0 169 0 6 21 704
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 0 2 10 764 1 7 35 1,742
Interactions among donors'aid allocations: evidence from an exogenous World Bank income threshold 0 0 0 73 0 4 10 98
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 0 0 0 141 0 5 19 522
It's only words: validating the CPIA governance assessments 0 0 0 25 0 4 13 86
Measuring corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: a critique of the cross-country indicators 0 0 0 381 2 6 24 894
Moving Up the Ladder: An Analysis of IDA Graduation Policy 0 1 5 26 1 8 24 158
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 0 0 0 33 0 3 12 78
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 0 0 3 689 1 3 27 2,132
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 0 1 55 0 2 16 219
Poverty and policy selectivity of World Bank trust funds 0 0 0 9 0 2 6 47
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 1 107 0 4 18 410
Roll-off at the top of the ballot: intentional undervoting in American presidential elections 0 0 0 15 4 10 18 202
Second generation governance indicators 0 0 0 70 1 4 7 182
Social capital and the quality of Government: evidence from the U.S. States 0 0 3 528 0 6 23 1,453
Social capital, growth and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence 0 0 1 135 1 5 25 375
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 1 2 8 303 7 24 60 1,019
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 0 3 7 541
Sovereign rents and the quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 0 85 0 7 18 201
Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid 1 3 3 16 1 5 11 47
The Effect of Aid on Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment 0 0 1 88 1 8 25 271
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: theory and evidence 0 0 0 64 0 1 6 223
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a quasi-experiment 1 1 5 165 2 5 25 365
The reappearing American voter why did turnout rise in '92? 0 0 0 7 1 14 38 110
The worldwide governance indicators and tautology: causally related separable concepts, indicators of a common cause, or both ? 0 0 0 148 0 4 24 451
Toward More Operationally Relevant Indicators of Governance 0 0 0 7 0 2 4 27
Trust, assocational life, and economic performance 0 0 2 128 3 17 37 641
Unbundling institutions for external finance: worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 0 38 0 4 13 101
Viewers like you: community norms and contributions to public broadcasting 0 0 0 7 0 9 16 106
Voided Ballot in the 1996 Presidential Election: A County-Level Analysis 0 0 0 10 0 3 10 101
When do donors trust recipient country systems ? 0 0 1 66 0 3 9 156
Which donors, which funds ? the choice of multilateral funds by bilateral donors at the World Bank 0 0 0 22 0 6 19 72
Who Uses Inferior Voting Technology? 0 0 0 9 0 0 5 82
World Bank lending and the quality of economic policy 0 0 0 78 0 1 8 107
World Bank lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 1 4 0 1 11 21
World Bank policy lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 0 27 1 7 17 98
Total Working Papers 9 21 88 9,622 47 358 1,316 31,430


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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AID, ECONOMIC FREEDOM, AND GROWTH 0 0 0 58 0 2 9 171
Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: Cross‐Country Empirical Tests 2 4 10 19 5 16 63 92
Aid Quality and Donor Rankings 0 1 1 37 0 3 10 156
Aid Tying and Donor Fragmentation 0 0 1 36 0 1 15 241
Aid and donor trust in recipient country systems 1 1 1 61 1 7 23 254
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid? 0 0 0 5 0 0 9 19
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 1 1 5 214 2 6 46 595
Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems: Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration? 0 0 1 11 0 2 7 50
Civic Norms, Social Sanctions, and Voter Turnout 0 0 0 5 0 1 13 41
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 0 0 2 689 0 2 21 2,207
Crossing the threshold: A positive analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 1 1 26 0 3 16 158
Determinants of Economic Growth By Robert Barro. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 145. $22.50 0 0 1 4 0 1 7 13
Determinants of Lasting Democracy in Poor Countries: Culture, Development, and Institutions 0 0 1 6 0 2 11 18
Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets: Evidence from Firm Surveys in 90 Developing Countries 0 0 0 13 0 2 12 56
Deterring Voter Registration Through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data 0 0 0 12 0 0 6 93
Deterring Voter Registration through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data 0 0 0 17 0 4 8 105
Does Rain Help the Republicans? Theory and Evidence on Turnout and the Vote 0 0 0 0 1 2 11 568
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 3 9 40 580 18 54 192 5,796
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 2 10 26 590 4 25 79 1,586
Foreign Aid and Market‐Liberalizing Reform 0 0 0 92 0 7 19 315
Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 2 4 122 4 19 52 2,106
Gender and corruption 0 2 11 1,167 3 9 77 3,660
Groups, Growth and Trust: Cross-Country Evidence on the Olson and Putnam Hypotheses 0 0 0 185 0 2 10 464
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 3 12 41 1,372 8 46 273 4,036
Institutions and the Convergence Hypothesis: The Cross-National Evidence 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 881
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 0 0 1 48 0 2 13 244
Measuring Corruption: A Critique of Indicators in Eastern Europe and Central Asia 0 0 2 17 0 2 14 68
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 0 0 1 15 0 0 8 95
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 1 2 3 207 1 5 21 668
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 0 1 10 0 6 17 108
Poverty and Policy Selectivity of World Bank Trust Funds 0 0 0 1 0 0 8 38
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 2 5 26 1,014
Sovereign rents and quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 0 43 0 2 16 174
The Voter Participation Effects of Selecting Jurors from Registration Lists 0 0 0 2 0 1 12 195
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Six, One, or None? 2 6 17 348 6 17 62 943
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: Theory and evidence 0 0 0 31 1 6 16 150
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a Quasi-experiment 1 4 21 490 6 20 117 3,530
Trade intensity, country size and corruption 1 1 1 224 1 2 7 576
Trust and Growth 0 0 0 2,084 22 67 242 5,854
Unbundling institutions for external finance: Worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 1 15 3 8 25 84
Which Donors, Which Funds? Bilateral Donors' Choice of Multilateral Funds at the World Bank 0 0 0 8 0 3 12 53
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 0 6 41 2,598
World Bank Lending and the Quality of Economic Policy 0 0 0 3 0 2 13 37
World Bank Policy Lending and the Quality of Public-Sector Governance 0 0 0 12 1 4 30 104
Total Journal Articles 17 56 194 8,879 89 376 1,697 40,214


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 3 12 77
Total Books 0 0 0 3 0 3 12 77


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Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 16
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 1 1 0 7 32 92
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 0 4 14 34
Total Chapters 0 0 1 1 0 13 51 142


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