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Aid and trust in country systems 0 0 0 144 2 2 3 256
Aid dependence and the quality of governance: a cross-country empirical analysis 3 3 8 754 11 15 40 1,681
Aid quality and donor rankings 0 0 1 120 1 2 5 264
Aid tying and donor fragmentation 0 0 0 55 1 2 5 210
Are larger countries really more corrupt? 0 0 1 352 2 2 10 2,702
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid ? 0 0 1 21 0 0 4 73
Bilateralizing multilateral aid? Aid allocation by World Bank trust funds 0 0 0 47 0 0 2 151
Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure 0 0 0 212 1 3 3 782
Building or bypassing recipient country systems: are donors defying the Paris declaration ? 0 0 1 32 0 1 2 94
Building trust: public policy, interpersonal trust and economic development 0 1 1 154 2 4 11 484
Civic norms, social sanctions and voting turnout 0 0 3 66 0 0 8 276
Contract Intensive Money 0 1 3 294 0 2 21 1,435
Crossing the threshold: an analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 0 0 58 0 2 6 235
Determinants of lasting democracy in poor countries 1 1 1 38 1 1 4 120
Deterring kickbacks and encouraging entry in public procurement markets: evidence from firm surveys in 88 developing countries 0 0 1 21 3 3 7 43
Did states' motor voter programs help the Democrats? 0 0 0 6 0 0 2 39
Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy? 0 0 4 96 1 1 12 232
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 1 60 1 1 3 227
Does motor voter work? Evidence from state-level data 0 0 0 18 1 1 2 121
Donor fragmentation 0 0 2 52 2 4 8 162
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 0 0 2 430 2 6 12 1,134
Drivers Wanted: Motor Voter and the Election of 1996 0 0 0 4 1 1 4 42
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 0 40 1 2 5 293
For shame! The effect of community cooperative context on the probability of voting 0 0 0 9 0 0 2 57
Foreign aid and market-liberalizing reform 0 0 0 217 0 1 4 617
Gender and Corruption 0 0 0 101 0 0 3 396
Gender and Corruption 0 0 5 1,383 0 1 19 4,254
Governance and growth: measurement and evidence 0 1 1 62 0 1 5 194
How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income Countries ? 0 0 1 37 3 5 11 67
Individual and country-level factors affecting support for foreign aid 0 0 1 169 2 2 10 685
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 1 2 16 757 2 7 35 1,717
Interactions among donors'aid allocations: evidence from an exogenous World Bank income threshold 0 0 0 73 0 0 1 88
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 0 0 0 141 0 0 4 503
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 0 6 381 1 3 16 874
Moving Up the Ladder: An Analysis of IDA Graduation Policy 0 1 2 22 2 3 12 137
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 0 0 0 33 0 0 4 66
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 0 1 9 687 3 8 37 2,113
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 0 0 54 0 0 1 204
Poverty and policy selectivity of World Bank trust funds 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 41
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 106 1 2 9 395
Roll-off at the top of the ballot: intentional undervoting in American presidential elections 0 0 0 15 0 2 5 188
Second generation governance indicators 0 0 3 70 1 1 6 176
Social capital and the quality of Government: evidence from the U.S. States 1 1 4 526 1 1 10 1,431
Social capital, growth and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence 0 0 2 134 1 3 17 356
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 1 5 7 300 5 10 18 969
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 1 1 4 535
Sovereign rents and the quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 0 85 0 2 5 185
Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid 0 0 1 13 2 2 4 38
The Effect of Aid on Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment 0 1 2 88 2 4 10 250
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: theory and evidence 0 0 0 64 0 2 3 220
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a quasi-experiment 1 2 3 162 1 4 8 344
The reappearing American voter why did turnout rise in '92? 0 0 0 7 1 3 19 75
The worldwide governance indicators and tautology: causally related separable concepts, indicators of a common cause, or both ? 0 0 0 148 1 2 10 430
Toward More Operationally Relevant Indicators of Governance 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 23
Trust, assocational life, and economic performance 1 1 9 127 3 6 24 611
Unbundling institutions for external finance: worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 0 38 1 1 5 89
Viewers like you: community norms and contributions to public broadcasting 0 0 0 7 1 1 3 91
Voided Ballot in the 1996 Presidential Election: A County-Level Analysis 0 0 0 10 0 1 4 92
When do donors trust recipient country systems ? 0 0 0 65 1 2 3 149
Which donors, which funds ? the choice of multilateral funds by bilateral donors at the World Bank 0 0 0 22 0 2 4 55
Who Uses Inferior Voting Technology? 0 0 0 9 0 1 1 78
World Bank lending and the quality of economic policy 0 0 1 78 3 3 7 102
World Bank lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 0 3 2 2 5 13
World Bank policy lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 0 27 2 2 4 83
Total Working Papers 9 21 103 9,558 76 146 533 30,290


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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AID, ECONOMIC FREEDOM, AND GROWTH 0 0 1 58 1 1 4 164
Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: Cross‐Country Empirical Tests 0 0 3 9 4 7 16 36
Aid Quality and Donor Rankings 0 0 3 36 0 1 8 148
Aid Tying and Donor Fragmentation 1 1 2 36 1 1 56 233
Aid and donor trust in recipient country systems 0 0 1 60 1 3 7 236
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid? 0 0 2 5 1 1 6 11
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 0 1 11 211 4 12 32 564
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 1 4 10 32
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 0 0 0 687 1 1 3 2,187
Crossing the threshold: A positive analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 0 1 25 0 1 4 143
Determinants of Economic Growth By Robert Barro. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 145. $22.50 1 1 4 4 1 2 6 8
Determinants of Lasting Democracy in Poor Countries: Culture, Development, and Institutions 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 7
Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets: Evidence from Firm Surveys in 90 Developing Countries 0 0 1 13 1 2 6 47
Deterring Voter Registration Through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data 0 0 0 12 0 0 2 88
Deterring Voter Registration through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data 0 0 0 17 0 2 3 100
Does Rain Help the Republicans? Theory and Evidence on Turnout and the Vote 0 0 0 0 2 2 9 560
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 5 8 57 552 10 29 156 5,644
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 1 2 13 569 4 8 43 1,519
Foreign Aid and Market‐Liberalizing Reform 0 0 2 92 0 0 6 297
Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 0 118 4 8 14 2,063
Gender and corruption 0 3 20 1,159 16 31 88 3,614
Groups, Growth and Trust: Cross-Country Evidence on the Olson and Putnam Hypotheses 0 0 0 185 0 1 4 455
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 3 8 51 1,340 14 30 150 3,803
Institutions and the Convergence Hypothesis: The Cross-National Evidence 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 875
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 0 0 1 47 0 0 2 231
Measuring Corruption: A Critique of Indicators in Eastern Europe and Central Asia 0 0 0 15 1 1 2 55
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 1 1 1 15 1 2 4 89
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 0 0 2 204 1 1 9 648
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 0 0 9 2 3 8 94
Poverty and Policy Selectivity of World Bank Trust Funds 0 0 0 1 1 2 6 33
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 3 7 23 998
Sovereign rents and quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 1 43 2 5 11 165
The Voter Participation Effects of Selecting Jurors from Registration Lists 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 184
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Six, One, or None? 0 2 4 333 2 8 20 890
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: Theory and evidence 0 0 0 31 0 1 2 135
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a Quasi-experiment 2 3 18 473 6 14 112 3,434
Trade intensity, country size and corruption 0 0 0 223 0 0 6 570
Trust and Growth 0 0 0 2,084 52 60 96 5,678
Unbundling institutions for external finance: Worldwide firm-level evidence 0 1 2 15 0 2 4 61
Which Donors, Which Funds? Bilateral Donors' Choice of Multilateral Funds at the World Bank 0 0 1 8 0 1 5 42
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 1 4 39 2,563
World Bank Lending and the Quality of Economic Policy 0 0 0 3 1 1 2 26
World Bank Policy Lending and the Quality of Public-Sector Governance 0 0 0 12 1 1 3 75
Total Journal Articles 14 31 202 8,726 142 262 996 38,848


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 4 65
Total Books 0 0 0 3 0 0 4 65


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 13
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 21
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 1 1 1 1 2 6 18 67
Total Chapters 1 1 1 1 4 9 29 101


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