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Aid and trust in country systems 0 0 0 144 1 3 4 257
Aid dependence and the quality of governance: a cross-country empirical analysis 1 4 9 755 10 22 48 1,691
Aid quality and donor rankings 0 0 1 120 3 4 8 267
Aid tying and donor fragmentation 0 0 0 55 0 1 5 210
Are larger countries really more corrupt? 0 0 1 352 0 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 1 1 3 152
Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure 0 0 0 212 0 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 0 1 154 2 4 13 486
Civic norms, social sanctions and voting turnout 0 0 3 66 1 1 9 277
Contract Intensive Money 0 0 3 294 4 5 25 1,439
Crossing the threshold: an analysis of IBRD graduation policy 1 1 1 59 1 2 7 236
Determinants of lasting democracy in poor countries 0 1 1 38 0 1 3 120
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 1 1 3 40
Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy? 0 0 4 96 1 2 13 233
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 0 60 0 1 2 227
Does motor voter work? Evidence from state-level data 0 0 0 18 0 1 2 121
Donor fragmentation 0 0 1 52 0 2 7 162
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 1 1 3 431 3 8 14 1,137
Drivers Wanted: Motor Voter and the Election of 1996 0 0 0 4 0 1 4 42
Election Day Registration: The Second Wave 0 0 0 15 4 4 4 83
Election-day registration and turnout inequality 0 0 0 23 1 1 1 92
Empowerment as a zero-sum game 0 0 0 40 3 4 8 296
For shame! The effect of community cooperative context on the probability of voting 0 0 0 9 1 1 3 58
Foreign aid and market-liberalizing reform 0 0 0 217 2 2 6 619
Gender and Corruption 0 0 3 1,383 3 3 18 4,257
Gender and Corruption 0 0 0 101 3 3 6 399
Governance and growth: measurement and evidence 0 1 1 62 3 4 8 197
How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income Countries ? 0 0 1 37 2 7 13 69
Individual and country-level factors affecting support for foreign aid 0 0 0 169 3 5 11 688
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 0 1 14 757 3 7 34 1,720
Interactions among donors'aid allocations: evidence from an exogenous World Bank income threshold 0 0 0 73 2 2 3 90
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 0 0 0 141 5 5 8 508
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 2 381 4 7 16 878
Moving Up the Ladder: An Analysis of IDA Graduation Policy 1 1 3 23 4 6 14 141
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 0 0 0 33 3 3 7 69
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 0 1 8 687 1 5 35 2,114
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 1 1 1 55 4 4 5 208
Poverty and policy selectivity of World Bank trust funds 0 0 0 9 2 2 3 43
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 106 1 3 9 396
Roll-off at the top of the ballot: intentional undervoting in American presidential elections 0 0 0 15 1 1 6 189
Second generation governance indicators 0 0 3 70 0 1 6 176
Social capital and the quality of Government: evidence from the U.S. States 1 2 5 527 3 4 13 1,434
Social capital, growth and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence 0 0 1 134 0 3 15 356
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 2 7 300 7 14 23 976
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 0 1 3 535
Sovereign rents and the quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 0 85 1 3 6 186
Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid 0 0 1 13 1 3 5 39
The Effect of Aid on Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment 0 1 2 88 1 5 11 251
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 2 3 162 2 4 10 346
The reappearing American voter why did turnout rise in '92? 0 0 0 7 2 5 14 77
The worldwide governance indicators and tautology: causally related separable concepts, indicators of a common cause, or both ? 0 0 0 148 1 3 10 431
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 2 8 24 613
Unbundling institutions for external finance: worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 0 38 0 1 5 89
Viewers like you: community norms and contributions to public broadcasting 0 0 0 7 0 1 1 91
Voided Ballot in the 1996 Presidential Election: A County-Level Analysis 0 0 0 10 2 2 6 94
When do donors trust recipient country systems ? 0 0 0 65 0 2 3 149
Which donors, which funds ? the choice of multilateral funds by bilateral donors at the World Bank 0 0 0 22 1 2 5 56
Who Uses Inferior Voting Technology? 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 78
World Bank lending and the quality of economic policy 0 0 1 78 1 4 8 103
World Bank lending and the quality of public sector governance 1 1 1 4 3 5 8 16
World Bank policy lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 0 27 1 3 5 84
Total Working Papers 7 21 96 9,565 111 222 600 30,401


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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AID, ECONOMIC FREEDOM, AND GROWTH 0 0 0 58 2 3 5 166
Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: Cross‐Country Empirical Tests 1 1 4 10 8 12 24 44
Aid Quality and Donor Rankings 0 0 3 36 2 3 10 150
Aid Tying and Donor Fragmentation 0 1 2 36 0 1 53 233
Aid and donor trust in recipient country systems 0 0 1 60 6 9 13 242
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid? 0 0 2 5 2 3 7 13
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 0 1 9 211 1 12 31 565
Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems: Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration? 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 44
Civic Norms, Social Sanctions, and Voter Turnout 0 0 0 5 1 3 9 33
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 0 0 0 687 3 4 6 2,190
Crossing the threshold: A positive analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 0 1 25 1 1 5 144
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 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 3 4 9 50
Deterring Voter Registration Through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data 0 0 0 12 2 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 0 2 9 560
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 4 11 55 556 19 43 151 5,663
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 2 3 14 571 6 12 47 1,525
Foreign Aid and Market‐Liberalizing Reform 0 0 2 92 1 1 7 298
Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa 1 1 1 119 3 9 17 2,066
Gender and corruption 1 2 18 1,160 8 31 88 3,622
Groups, Growth and Trust: Cross-Country Evidence on the Olson and Putnam Hypotheses 0 0 0 185 1 2 4 456
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 2 7 42 1,342 18 43 142 3,821
Institutions and the Convergence Hypothesis: The Cross-National Evidence 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 875
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 1 1 2 48 2 2 4 233
Measuring Corruption: A Critique of Indicators in Eastern Europe and Central Asia 0 0 0 15 3 4 5 58
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 0 1 1 15 1 2 5 90
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 0 0 1 204 7 8 15 655
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 0 0 9 0 3 8 94
Poverty and Policy Selectivity of World Bank Trust Funds 0 0 0 1 1 2 7 34
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 4 11 25 1,002
Sovereign rents and quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 1 43 1 4 11 166
The Voter Participation Effects of Selecting Jurors from Registration Lists 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 185
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Six, One, or None? 0 1 4 333 10 15 28 900
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: Theory and evidence 0 0 0 31 1 1 3 136
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a Quasi-experiment 3 5 20 476 16 25 114 3,450
Trade intensity, country size and corruption 0 0 0 223 0 0 6 570
Trust and Growth 0 0 0 2,084 37 96 133 5,715
Unbundling institutions for external finance: Worldwide firm-level evidence 0 1 2 15 8 9 11 69
Which Donors, Which Funds? Bilateral Donors' Choice of Multilateral Funds at the World Bank 0 0 0 8 0 0 3 42
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 2 6 39 2,565
World Bank Lending and the Quality of Economic Policy 0 0 0 3 2 3 4 28
World Bank Policy Lending and the Quality of Public-Sector Governance 0 0 0 12 4 5 7 79
Total Journal Articles 16 38 191 8,742 188 401 1,089 39,036


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 0 1 4 13
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 7 12 23 74
Total Chapters 0 1 1 1 7 14 33 108


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