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Aid and trust in country systems 0 0 0 144 8 11 14 267
Aid dependence and the quality of governance: a cross-country empirical analysis 1 3 10 757 8 29 64 1,710
Aid quality and donor rankings 0 0 1 120 2 7 11 271
Aid tying and donor fragmentation 0 0 0 55 3 5 9 215
Are larger countries really more corrupt? 0 0 1 352 13 29 39 2,731
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid ? 0 0 0 21 4 8 11 81
Bilateralizing multilateral aid? Aid allocation by World Bank trust funds 1 1 1 48 3 6 8 157
Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure 0 0 0 212 11 18 21 800
Building or bypassing recipient country systems: are donors defying the Paris declaration ? 0 0 1 32 4 5 7 99
Building trust: public policy, interpersonal trust and economic development 0 0 1 154 4 13 23 497
Civic norms, social sanctions and voting turnout 0 1 4 67 1 8 14 284
Contract Intensive Money 0 0 3 294 4 11 28 1,446
Crossing the threshold: an analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 1 1 59 5 7 11 242
Determinants of lasting democracy in poor countries 0 0 1 38 0 0 2 120
Deterring kickbacks and encouraging entry in public procurement markets: evidence from firm surveys in 88 developing countries 0 0 0 21 2 2 8 45
Did states' motor voter programs help the Democrats? 0 0 0 6 3 4 6 43
Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy? 0 0 0 96 2 5 11 237
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 0 60 5 6 8 233
Does motor voter work? Evidence from state-level data 0 0 0 18 3 6 8 127
Donor fragmentation 0 0 0 52 4 5 10 167
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 1 2 4 432 3 16 26 1,150
Drivers Wanted: Motor Voter and the Election of 1996 0 0 0 4 2 4 8 46
Election Day Registration: The Second Wave 0 0 0 15 2 7 7 86
Election-day registration and turnout inequality 0 0 0 23 2 3 3 94
Empowerment as a zero-sum game 0 0 0 40 2 6 9 299
For shame! The effect of community cooperative context on the probability of voting 0 0 0 9 0 1 2 58
Foreign aid and market-liberalizing reform 0 0 0 217 4 8 12 625
Gender and Corruption 0 2 2 103 6 14 16 410
Gender and Corruption 0 0 2 1,383 4 15 28 4,269
Governance and growth: measurement and evidence 0 0 1 62 3 6 10 200
How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income Countries ? 0 0 0 37 38 41 51 108
Individual and country-level factors affecting support for foreign aid 0 0 0 169 5 8 14 693
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 0 2 14 759 4 10 36 1,727
Interactions among donors'aid allocations: evidence from an exogenous World Bank income threshold 0 0 0 73 2 5 6 93
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 0 0 0 141 6 13 15 516
It's only words: validating the CPIA governance assessments 0 0 0 25 4 5 5 78
Measuring corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: a critique of the cross-country indicators 0 0 1 381 1 7 15 881
Moving Up the Ladder: An Analysis of IDA Graduation Policy 0 1 3 23 2 7 15 144
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 0 0 0 33 5 8 9 74
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 0 2 10 689 4 9 42 2,122
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 1 1 55 5 11 12 215
Poverty and policy selectivity of World Bank trust funds 0 0 0 9 1 4 5 45
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 106 6 8 14 403
Roll-off at the top of the ballot: intentional undervoting in American presidential elections 0 0 0 15 1 3 8 191
Second generation governance indicators 0 0 1 70 1 1 5 177
Social capital and the quality of Government: evidence from the U.S. States 0 1 4 527 4 9 15 1,440
Social capital, growth and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence 0 1 1 135 7 10 22 366
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 1 1 8 301 10 19 35 988
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 0 1 4 536
Sovereign rents and the quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 0 85 2 8 12 193
Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid 0 0 0 13 1 4 7 42
The Effect of Aid on Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment 0 0 2 88 5 11 19 261
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: theory and evidence 0 0 0 64 2 2 5 222
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a quasi-experiment 1 1 3 163 6 10 16 354
The reappearing American voter why did turnout rise in '92? 0 0 0 7 13 19 28 94
The worldwide governance indicators and tautology: causally related separable concepts, indicators of a common cause, or both ? 0 0 0 148 2 10 17 440
Toward More Operationally Relevant Indicators of Governance 0 0 0 7 2 2 3 25
Trust, assocational life, and economic performance 0 0 8 127 5 8 29 619
Unbundling institutions for external finance: worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 0 38 6 8 13 97
Viewers like you: community norms and contributions to public broadcasting 0 0 0 7 3 5 6 96
Voided Ballot in the 1996 Presidential Election: A County-Level Analysis 0 0 0 10 1 4 7 96
When do donors trust recipient country systems ? 0 0 0 65 2 2 5 151
Which donors, which funds ? the choice of multilateral funds by bilateral donors at the World Bank 0 0 0 22 6 11 15 66
Who Uses Inferior Voting Technology? 0 0 0 9 1 3 4 81
World Bank lending and the quality of economic policy 0 0 0 78 1 3 9 105
World Bank lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 1 1 4 3 7 12 20
World Bank policy lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 0 27 3 6 10 89
Total Working Papers 5 21 90 9,579 287 567 979 30,857


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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AID, ECONOMIC FREEDOM, AND GROWTH 0 0 0 58 2 4 7 168
Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: Cross‐Country Empirical Tests 1 4 7 13 13 28 43 64
Aid Quality and Donor Rankings 0 0 1 36 1 4 9 152
Aid Tying and Donor Fragmentation 0 0 1 36 2 4 51 237
Aid and donor trust in recipient country systems 0 0 1 60 2 10 17 246
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid? 0 0 2 5 3 7 12 18
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 1 1 10 212 11 17 46 581
Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems: Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration? 0 1 1 11 3 5 5 48
Civic Norms, Social Sanctions, and Voter Turnout 0 0 0 5 3 6 12 38
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 2 2 2 689 8 12 15 2,199
Crossing the threshold: A positive analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 0 1 25 6 8 11 151
Determinants of Economic Growth By Robert Barro. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 145. $22.50 0 0 3 4 4 4 8 12
Determinants of Lasting Democracy in Poor Countries: Culture, Development, and Institutions 0 1 1 6 2 9 9 16
Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets: Evidence from Firm Surveys in 90 Developing Countries 0 0 1 13 1 6 11 53
Deterring Voter Registration Through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data 0 0 0 12 3 5 7 93
Deterring Voter Registration through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data 0 0 0 17 0 0 3 100
Does Rain Help the Republicans? Theory and Evidence on Turnout and the Vote 0 0 0 0 3 4 12 564
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 3 11 37 563 26 62 145 5,706
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 1 5 16 574 6 22 57 1,541
Foreign Aid and Market‐Liberalizing Reform 0 0 0 92 4 7 10 304
Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 2 2 120 5 19 32 2,082
Gender and corruption 2 4 15 1,163 11 28 95 3,642
Groups, Growth and Trust: Cross-Country Evidence on the Olson and Putnam Hypotheses 0 0 0 185 2 5 8 460
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 4 10 40 1,350 62 103 208 3,906
Institutions and the Convergence Hypothesis: The Cross-National Evidence 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 877
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 0 1 2 48 5 7 9 238
Measuring Corruption: A Critique of Indicators in Eastern Europe and Central Asia 1 1 1 16 4 7 9 62
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 0 0 1 15 2 5 9 94
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 1 1 1 205 4 14 20 662
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 0 0 9 5 5 13 99
Poverty and Policy Selectivity of World Bank Trust Funds 0 0 0 1 2 3 9 36
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 6 11 28 1,009
Sovereign rents and quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 1 43 3 6 16 171
The Voter Participation Effects of Selecting Jurors from Registration Lists 0 0 0 2 4 8 11 192
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Six, One, or None? 3 5 9 338 8 24 42 914
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: Theory and evidence 0 0 0 31 6 8 10 143
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a Quasi-experiment 6 11 21 484 18 61 139 3,495
Trade intensity, country size and corruption 0 0 0 223 3 4 10 574
Trust and Growth 0 0 0 2,084 13 83 179 5,761
Unbundling institutions for external finance: Worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 1 15 6 15 17 76
Which Donors, Which Funds? Bilateral Donors' Choice of Multilateral Funds at the World Bank 0 0 0 8 5 6 9 48
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 10 16 49 2,579
World Bank Lending and the Quality of Economic Policy 0 0 0 3 5 8 10 34
World Bank Policy Lending and the Quality of Public-Sector Governance 0 0 0 12 8 14 17 89
Total Journal Articles 25 60 178 8,786 301 686 1,445 39,534


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 5 7 10 72
Total Books 0 0 0 3 5 7 10 72


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Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 14
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 1 1 5 13 26 80
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 7 7 12 28
Total Chapters 0 0 1 1 12 21 43 122


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