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Aid and trust in country systems 0 0 0 144 2 5 6 259
Aid dependence and the quality of governance: a cross-country empirical analysis 1 5 10 756 11 32 57 1,702
Aid quality and donor rankings 0 0 1 120 2 6 10 269
Aid tying and donor fragmentation 0 0 0 55 2 3 7 212
Are larger countries really more corrupt? 0 0 1 352 16 18 26 2,718
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid ? 0 0 1 21 4 4 8 77
Bilateralizing multilateral aid? Aid allocation by World Bank trust funds 0 0 0 47 2 3 5 154
Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure 0 0 0 212 7 8 10 789
Building or bypassing recipient country systems: are donors defying the Paris declaration ? 0 0 1 32 1 1 3 95
Building trust: public policy, interpersonal trust and economic development 0 0 1 154 7 11 19 493
Civic norms, social sanctions and voting turnout 1 1 4 67 6 7 15 283
Contract Intensive Money 0 0 3 294 3 7 27 1,442
Crossing the threshold: an analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 1 1 59 1 2 7 237
Determinants of lasting democracy in poor countries 0 1 1 38 0 1 2 120
Deterring kickbacks and encouraging entry in public procurement markets: evidence from firm surveys in 88 developing countries 0 0 1 21 0 3 7 43
Did states' motor voter programs help the Democrats? 0 0 0 6 0 1 3 40
Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy? 0 0 2 96 2 4 12 235
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 0 60 1 2 3 228
Does motor voter work? Evidence from state-level data 0 0 0 18 3 4 5 124
Donor fragmentation 0 0 1 52 1 3 8 163
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 0 1 3 431 10 15 24 1,147
Drivers Wanted: Motor Voter and the Election of 1996 0 0 0 4 2 3 6 44
Election Day Registration: The Second Wave 0 0 0 15 1 5 5 84
Election-day registration and turnout inequality 0 0 0 23 0 1 1 92
Empowerment as a zero-sum game 0 0 0 40 1 5 7 297
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 2 4 8 621
Gender and Corruption 2 2 2 103 5 8 10 404
Gender and Corruption 0 0 3 1,383 8 11 26 4,265
Governance and growth: measurement and evidence 0 0 1 62 0 3 8 197
How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income Countries ? 0 0 1 37 1 6 14 70
Individual and country-level factors affecting support for foreign aid 0 0 0 169 0 5 9 688
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 2 3 15 759 3 8 34 1,723
Interactions among donors'aid allocations: evidence from an exogenous World Bank income threshold 0 0 0 73 1 3 4 91
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 0 0 0 141 2 7 10 510
It's only words: validating the CPIA governance assessments 0 0 0 25 1 1 1 74
Measuring corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: a critique of the cross-country indicators 0 0 2 381 2 7 18 880
Moving Up the Ladder: An Analysis of IDA Graduation Policy 0 1 3 23 1 7 13 142
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 0 0 0 33 0 3 5 69
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 2 2 10 689 4 8 38 2,118
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 1 1 55 2 6 7 210
Poverty and policy selectivity of World Bank trust funds 0 0 0 9 1 3 4 44
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 106 1 3 8 397
Roll-off at the top of the ballot: intentional undervoting in American presidential elections 0 0 0 15 1 2 7 190
Second generation governance indicators 0 0 2 70 0 1 5 176
Social capital and the quality of Government: evidence from the U.S. States 0 2 4 527 2 6 12 1,436
Social capital, growth and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence 1 1 1 135 3 4 16 359
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 1 7 300 2 14 25 978
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 1 2 4 536
Sovereign rents and the quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 0 85 5 6 11 191
Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid 0 0 1 13 2 5 7 41
The Effect of Aid on Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment 0 0 2 88 5 8 15 256
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: theory and evidence 0 0 0 64 0 0 3 220
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a quasi-experiment 0 1 2 162 2 5 11 348
The reappearing American voter why did turnout rise in '92? 0 0 0 7 4 7 15 81
The worldwide governance indicators and tautology: causally related separable concepts, indicators of a common cause, or both ? 0 0 0 148 7 9 16 438
Toward More Operationally Relevant Indicators of Governance 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 23
Trust, assocational life, and economic performance 0 1 8 127 1 6 24 614
Unbundling institutions for external finance: worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 0 38 2 3 7 91
Viewers like you: community norms and contributions to public broadcasting 0 0 0 7 2 3 3 93
Voided Ballot in the 1996 Presidential Election: A County-Level Analysis 0 0 0 10 1 3 7 95
When do donors trust recipient country systems ? 0 0 0 65 0 1 3 149
Which donors, which funds ? the choice of multilateral funds by bilateral donors at the World Bank 0 0 0 22 4 5 9 60
Who Uses Inferior Voting Technology? 0 0 0 9 2 2 3 80
World Bank lending and the quality of economic policy 0 0 1 78 1 5 9 104
World Bank lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 1 1 4 1 6 9 17
World Bank policy lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 0 27 2 5 7 86
Total Working Papers 9 25 98 9,574 169 356 731 30,570


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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AID, ECONOMIC FREEDOM, AND GROWTH 0 0 0 58 0 3 5 166
Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: Cross‐Country Empirical Tests 2 3 6 12 7 19 31 51
Aid Quality and Donor Rankings 0 0 3 36 1 3 11 151
Aid Tying and Donor Fragmentation 0 1 1 36 2 3 53 235
Aid and donor trust in recipient country systems 0 0 1 60 2 9 15 244
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid? 0 0 2 5 2 5 9 15
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 0 0 9 211 5 10 35 570
Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems: Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration? 0 1 1 11 1 2 2 45
Civic Norms, Social Sanctions, and Voter Turnout 0 0 0 5 2 4 11 35
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 0 0 0 687 1 5 7 2,191
Crossing the threshold: A positive analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 0 1 25 1 2 6 145
Determinants of Economic Growth By Robert Barro. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 145. $22.50 0 1 4 4 0 1 6 8
Determinants of Lasting Democracy in Poor Countries: Culture, Development, and Institutions 1 1 1 6 7 7 7 14
Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets: Evidence from Firm Surveys in 90 Developing Countries 0 0 1 13 2 6 10 52
Deterring Voter Registration Through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data 0 0 0 12 0 2 4 90
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 1 3 9 561
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 4 13 48 560 17 46 141 5,680
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 2 5 15 573 10 20 54 1,535
Foreign Aid and Market‐Liberalizing Reform 0 0 1 92 2 3 8 300
Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa 1 2 2 120 11 18 28 2,077
Gender and corruption 1 2 17 1,161 9 33 90 3,631
Groups, Growth and Trust: Cross-Country Evidence on the Olson and Putnam Hypotheses 0 0 0 185 2 3 6 458
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 4 9 40 1,346 23 55 154 3,844
Institutions and the Convergence Hypothesis: The Cross-National Evidence 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 876
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 0 1 2 48 0 2 4 233
Measuring Corruption: A Critique of Indicators in Eastern Europe and Central Asia 0 0 0 15 0 4 5 58
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 0 1 1 15 2 4 7 92
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 0 0 1 204 3 11 17 658
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 0 0 9 0 2 8 94
Poverty and Policy Selectivity of World Bank Trust Funds 0 0 0 1 0 2 7 34
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 1 8 23 1,003
Sovereign rents and quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 1 43 2 5 13 168
The Voter Participation Effects of Selecting Jurors from Registration Lists 0 0 0 2 3 4 7 188
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Six, One, or None? 2 2 6 335 6 18 34 906
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: Theory and evidence 0 0 0 31 1 2 4 137
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a Quasi-experiment 2 7 18 478 27 49 131 3,477
Trade intensity, country size and corruption 0 0 0 223 1 1 7 571
Trust and Growth 0 0 0 2,084 33 122 166 5,748
Unbundling institutions for external finance: Worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 1 15 1 9 11 70
Which Donors, Which Funds? Bilateral Donors' Choice of Multilateral Funds at the World Bank 0 0 0 8 1 1 4 43
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 4 7 42 2,569
World Bank Lending and the Quality of Economic Policy 0 0 0 3 1 4 5 29
World Bank Policy Lending and the Quality of Public-Sector Governance 0 0 0 12 2 7 9 81
Total Journal Articles 19 49 183 8,761 197 527 1,214 39,233


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 2 2 6 67
Total Books 0 0 0 3 2 2 6 67


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Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 14
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 21
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 1 1 1 1 10 22 75
Total Chapters 0 1 1 1 2 13 33 110


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