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Aid and trust in country systems 0 0 1 145 0 1 18 272
Aid dependence and the quality of governance: a cross-country empirical analysis 0 0 9 760 1 3 66 1,736
Aid quality and donor rankings 0 0 0 120 1 3 14 277
Aid tying and donor fragmentation 0 0 0 55 0 0 8 217
Are larger countries really more corrupt? 0 0 2 354 0 1 55 2,755
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid ? 0 0 0 21 0 3 13 86
Bilateralizing multilateral aid? Aid allocation by World Bank trust funds 0 0 1 48 1 3 23 174
Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure 0 0 0 212 0 1 22 803
Building or bypassing recipient country systems: are donors defying the Paris declaration ? 0 0 1 33 0 0 12 106
Building trust: public policy, interpersonal trust and economic development 1 2 4 158 2 13 44 526
Civic norms, social sanctions and voting turnout 0 0 3 69 1 2 16 292
Contract Intensive Money 0 0 0 294 1 1 20 1,455
Crossing the threshold: an analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 0 2 60 2 4 33 268
Determinants of lasting democracy in poor countries 0 0 1 38 0 0 3 122
Deterring kickbacks and encouraging entry in public procurement markets: evidence from firm surveys in 88 developing countries 0 0 0 21 0 0 6 46
Did states' motor voter programs help the Democrats? 0 0 1 7 0 0 11 50
Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy? 2 2 4 100 3 3 21 252
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 0 60 0 2 14 240
Does motor voter work? Evidence from state-level data 0 0 0 18 2 2 16 136
Donor fragmentation 0 0 1 53 0 0 11 171
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 1 1 6 436 2 4 31 1,163
Drivers Wanted: Motor Voter and the Election of 1996 0 0 0 4 0 1 11 52
Election Day Registration: The Second Wave 0 0 0 15 1 1 13 92
Election-day registration and turnout inequality 0 0 0 23 0 0 6 97
Empowerment as a zero-sum game 0 0 0 40 0 0 15 307
For shame! The effect of community cooperative context on the probability of voting 0 0 0 9 1 1 7 64
Foreign aid and market-liberalizing reform 0 0 0 217 1 2 15 632
Gender and Corruption 0 0 1 1,384 1 1 33 4,287
Gender and Corruption 0 0 3 104 0 1 19 415
Governance and growth: measurement and evidence 0 0 2 64 0 0 11 205
How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income Countries ? 0 0 1 38 0 3 82 146
Individual and country-level factors affecting support for foreign aid 0 0 0 169 0 1 22 705
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 0 1 9 765 3 7 34 1,749
Interactions among donors'aid allocations: evidence from an exogenous World Bank income threshold 0 0 0 73 0 2 12 100
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 1 1 1 142 1 2 21 524
It's only words: validating the CPIA governance assessments 0 0 0 25 0 0 13 86
Measuring corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: a critique of the cross-country indicators 1 2 2 383 2 3 24 897
Moving Up the Ladder: An Analysis of IDA Graduation Policy 0 0 4 26 0 1 24 159
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 1 1 1 34 1 4 16 82
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 0 0 2 689 0 1 23 2,133
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 0 1 55 1 1 16 220
Poverty and policy selectivity of World Bank trust funds 0 0 0 9 0 1 7 48
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 1 107 1 2 18 412
Roll-off at the top of the ballot: intentional undervoting in American presidential elections 0 0 0 15 0 0 14 202
Second generation governance indicators 0 0 0 70 0 0 7 182
Social capital and the quality of Government: evidence from the U.S. States 0 0 3 528 1 3 26 1,456
Social capital, growth and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence 0 0 1 135 0 1 21 376
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 4 303 0 2 57 1,021
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 0 1 8 542
Sovereign rents and the quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 0 85 1 1 17 202
Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid 0 0 3 16 0 0 11 47
The Effect of Aid on Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment 0 0 0 88 1 2 25 273
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: theory and evidence 0 0 0 64 0 0 3 223
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a quasi-experiment 0 0 4 165 1 2 24 367
The reappearing American voter why did turnout rise in '92? 0 0 0 7 1 1 37 111
The worldwide governance indicators and tautology: causally related separable concepts, indicators of a common cause, or both ? 0 0 0 148 2 7 29 458
Toward More Operationally Relevant Indicators of Governance 0 0 0 7 0 0 4 27
Trust, assocational life, and economic performance 0 0 2 128 0 1 34 642
Unbundling institutions for external finance: worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 0 38 0 2 15 103
Viewers like you: community norms and contributions to public broadcasting 0 0 0 7 0 0 16 106
Voided Ballot in the 1996 Presidential Election: A County-Level Analysis 0 0 0 10 0 1 10 102
When do donors trust recipient country systems ? 0 0 1 66 0 1 9 157
Which donors, which funds ? the choice of multilateral funds by bilateral donors at the World Bank 0 0 0 22 2 2 19 74
Who Uses Inferior Voting Technology? 0 0 0 9 0 1 5 83
World Bank lending and the quality of economic policy 0 0 0 78 1 1 9 108
World Bank lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 1 4 0 0 10 21
World Bank policy lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 0 27 0 1 18 99
Total Working Papers 7 10 83 9,632 39 111 1,327 31,541


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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AID, ECONOMIC FREEDOM, AND GROWTH 0 0 0 58 0 0 8 171
Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: Cross‐Country Empirical Tests 0 0 10 19 2 8 68 100
Aid Quality and Donor Rankings 0 0 1 37 1 2 10 158
Aid Tying and Donor Fragmentation 0 0 1 36 0 1 10 242
Aid and donor trust in recipient country systems 0 0 1 61 1 3 22 257
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid? 0 0 0 5 0 0 9 19
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 0 2 5 216 1 8 43 603
Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems: Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration? 0 0 1 11 1 1 8 51
Civic Norms, Social Sanctions, and Voter Turnout 0 0 0 5 0 1 11 42
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 0 0 2 689 2 3 24 2,210
Crossing the threshold: A positive analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 0 1 26 0 0 15 158
Determinants of Economic Growth By Robert Barro. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 145. $22.50 0 0 1 4 0 0 6 13
Determinants of Lasting Democracy in Poor Countries: Culture, Development, and Institutions 0 0 1 6 0 2 13 20
Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets: Evidence from Firm Surveys in 90 Developing Countries 0 0 0 13 0 2 12 58
Deterring Voter Registration Through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data 0 0 0 12 0 1 6 94
Deterring Voter Registration through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data 0 0 0 17 0 67 72 172
Does Rain Help the Republicans? Theory and Evidence on Turnout and the Vote 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 568
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 5 12 45 592 23 56 218 5,852
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 1 5 27 595 2 10 81 1,596
Foreign Aid and Market‐Liberalizing Reform 0 0 0 92 0 0 18 315
Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 4 122 4 10 57 2,116
Gender and corruption 2 3 11 1,170 8 19 81 3,679
Groups, Growth and Trust: Cross-Country Evidence on the Olson and Putnam Hypotheses 0 1 1 186 0 2 11 466
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 0 7 42 1,379 5 25 272 4,061
Institutions and the Convergence Hypothesis: The Cross-National Evidence 0 0 0 0 1 1 9 882
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 1 1 2 49 1 1 14 245
Measuring Corruption: A Critique of Indicators in Eastern Europe and Central Asia 1 1 3 18 1 1 15 69
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 0 0 1 15 0 2 9 97
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 0 0 3 207 0 4 25 672
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 0 1 10 0 1 17 109
Poverty and Policy Selectivity of World Bank Trust Funds 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 38
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 0 3 22 1,017
Sovereign rents and quality of tax policy and administration 0 1 1 44 1 2 13 176
The Voter Participation Effects of Selecting Jurors from Registration Lists 0 0 0 2 0 2 13 197
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Six, One, or None? 5 10 25 358 8 17 72 960
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: Theory and evidence 0 1 1 32 0 2 17 152
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a Quasi-experiment 0 0 19 490 4 8 110 3,538
Trade intensity, country size and corruption 0 0 1 224 0 2 8 578
Trust and Growth 0 0 0 2,084 4 26 254 5,880
Unbundling institutions for external finance: Worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 0 15 0 1 24 85
Which Donors, Which Funds? Bilateral Donors' Choice of Multilateral Funds at the World Bank 0 0 0 8 0 0 11 53
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 0 2 38 2,600
World Bank Lending and the Quality of Economic Policy 0 0 0 3 1 3 15 40
World Bank Policy Lending and the Quality of Public-Sector Governance 0 0 0 12 1 2 32 106
Total Journal Articles 15 44 211 8,923 72 301 1,809 40,515


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 12 77
Total Books 0 0 0 3 0 0 12 77


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 16
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 34
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 1 1 0 1 28 93
Total Chapters 0 0 1 1 0 1 46 143


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