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Aid and trust in country systems 0 0 0 144 1 1 2 254
Aid dependence and the quality of governance: a cross-country empirical analysis 2 3 6 749 7 10 26 1,653
Aid quality and donor rankings 0 0 0 119 0 1 2 260
Aid tying and donor fragmentation 0 0 0 55 0 1 7 206
Are larger countries really more corrupt? 0 0 0 351 2 2 9 2,694
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid ? 0 1 1 21 1 2 4 71
Bilateralizing multilateral aid? Aid allocation by World Bank trust funds 0 0 1 47 0 0 1 149
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 ? 0 0 0 31 0 0 1 92
Building trust: public policy, interpersonal trust and economic development 0 0 3 153 1 2 10 475
Civic norms, social sanctions and voting turnout 0 0 1 63 1 3 7 271
Contract Intensive Money 0 0 6 291 4 8 27 1,422
Crossing the threshold: an analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 0 0 58 0 2 3 231
Determinants of lasting democracy in poor countries 0 0 0 37 0 1 2 118
Deterring kickbacks and encouraging entry in public procurement markets: evidence from firm surveys in 88 developing countries 0 1 1 21 2 3 6 39
Did states' motor voter programs help the Democrats? 0 0 0 6 0 0 2 37
Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy? 0 4 7 96 0 6 10 226
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 2 60 1 1 4 226
Does motor voter work? Evidence from state-level data 0 0 0 18 0 0 1 119
Donor fragmentation 0 1 4 52 0 2 8 157
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 0 0 1 428 1 2 5 1,125
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 0 2 5 290
For shame! The effect of community cooperative context on the probability of voting 0 0 0 9 0 1 1 56
Foreign aid and market-liberalizing reform 0 0 0 217 1 1 2 614
Gender and Corruption 0 1 5 1,381 3 5 21 4,244
Governance and growth: measurement and evidence 0 0 0 61 1 2 4 191
How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income Countries ? 0 1 2 37 1 2 5 58
Individual and country-level factors affecting support for foreign aid 0 0 1 169 2 4 11 681
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 0 2 9 745 0 5 22 1,691
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 0 1 8 501
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 1 2 11 381 2 6 17 868
Moving Up the Ladder: An Analysis of IDA Graduation Policy 0 0 4 20 1 3 14 130
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 0 0 0 33 1 4 5 66
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 1 1 9 680 3 4 33 2,083
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 1 40
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 1 106 0 2 8 389
Roll-off at the top of the ballot: intentional undervoting in American presidential elections 0 0 1 15 0 0 5 183
Second generation governance indicators 1 3 4 70 2 4 6 174
Social capital and the quality of Government: evidence from the U.S. States 0 1 2 523 2 6 12 1,427
Social capital, growth and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence 0 1 5 134 2 5 17 346
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 2 293 0 0 10 953
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 1 1 6 533
Sovereign rents and the quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 0 85 0 1 1 181
Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid 0 1 1 13 0 1 2 35
The Effect of Aid on Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment 0 0 5 86 1 3 18 243
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 1 1 160 1 3 6 339
The reappearing American voter why did turnout rise in '92? 0 0 0 7 2 5 20 68
The worldwide governance indicators and tautology: causally related separable concepts, indicators of a common cause, or both ? 0 0 1 148 1 3 12 424
Toward More Operationally Relevant Indicators of Governance 0 0 1 7 1 1 2 23
Trust, assocational life, and economic performance 0 0 8 119 1 2 33 591
Unbundling institutions for external finance: worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 0 38 1 1 2 85
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 1 89
When do donors trust recipient country systems ? 0 0 1 65 1 1 4 147
Which donors, which funds ? the choice of multilateral funds by bilateral donors at the World Bank 0 0 1 22 2 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 1 1 78 0 1 1 96
World Bank lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 1 3 1 1 2 9
World Bank policy lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 0 27 1 1 2 80
Total Working Papers 5 25 111 9,393 56 132 467 29,540


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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AID, ECONOMIC FREEDOM, AND GROWTH 0 0 1 58 0 0 3 161
Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: Cross‐Country Empirical Tests 0 0 4 6 1 2 15 22
Aid Quality and Donor Rankings 0 2 3 35 1 4 10 144
Aid Tying and Donor Fragmentation 0 1 1 35 5 11 27 191
Aid and donor trust in recipient country systems 0 0 0 59 0 0 4 229
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid? 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 6
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 1 1 4 203 2 3 9 537
Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems: Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration? 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 43
Civic Norms, Social Sanctions, and Voter Turnout 0 0 0 5 1 3 8 27
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 0 0 1 687 1 1 9 2,185
Crossing the threshold: A positive analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 0 0 24 0 1 4 140
Determinants of Economic Growth By Robert Barro. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 145. $22.50 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 4
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 1 1 2 13 1 2 3 43
Deterring Voter Registration Through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data 0 0 0 12 1 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 3 4 8 555
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 7 32 70 533 12 61 187 5,573
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 2 3 16 560 4 10 42 1,488
Foreign Aid and Market‐Liberalizing Reform 0 2 6 92 1 4 16 295
Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 5 118 0 1 27 2,050
Gender and corruption 2 8 46 1,150 10 23 156 3,557
Groups, Growth and Trust: Cross-Country Evidence on the Olson and Putnam Hypotheses 0 0 0 185 0 0 3 452
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 2 12 84 1,312 6 25 208 3,704
Institutions and the Convergence Hypothesis: The Cross-National Evidence 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 871
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 0 0 2 46 1 1 4 230
Measuring Corruption: A Critique of Indicators in Eastern Europe and Central Asia 0 0 0 15 1 1 5 54
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 0 0 0 14 2 2 5 87
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 0 1 7 204 0 2 21 642
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 0 0 9 1 1 5 87
Poverty and Policy Selectivity of World Bank Trust Funds 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 27
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 1 5 16 982
Sovereign rents and quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 0 42 0 0 5 155
The Voter Participation Effects of Selecting Jurors from Registration Lists 0 0 1 2 1 1 2 182
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Six, One, or None? 1 1 4 330 2 2 22 874
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 8 33 464 11 31 136 3,367
Trade intensity, country size and corruption 0 0 1 223 3 3 4 567
Trust and Growth 0 0 0 2,084 1 1 20 5,583
Unbundling institutions for external finance: Worldwide firm-level evidence 0 1 1 14 0 1 3 59
Which Donors, Which Funds? Bilateral Donors' Choice of Multilateral Funds at the World Bank 0 0 1 8 1 1 4 40
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 3 7 33 2,533
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 2 12 1 1 5 73
Total Journal Articles 17 74 300 8,625 78 220 1,048 38,167


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 1 1 62
Total Books 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 62


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Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 10
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 2 5 15 56
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 16
Total Chapters 0 0 0 0 3 7 23 82


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