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Aid and trust in country systems 0 0 0 144 0 10 13 267
Aid dependence and the quality of governance: a cross-country empirical analysis 0 2 8 757 3 22 60 1,713
Aid quality and donor rankings 0 0 1 120 1 5 12 272
Aid tying and donor fragmentation 0 0 0 55 1 6 10 216
Are larger countries really more corrupt? 1 1 2 353 3 32 40 2,734
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid ? 0 0 0 21 0 8 10 81
Bilateralizing multilateral aid? Aid allocation by World Bank trust funds 0 1 1 48 3 8 11 160
Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure 0 0 0 212 0 18 21 800
Building or bypassing recipient country systems: are donors defying the Paris declaration ? 0 0 1 32 1 6 8 100
Building trust: public policy, interpersonal trust and economic development 1 1 2 155 3 14 25 500
Civic norms, social sanctions and voting turnout 0 1 4 67 0 7 13 284
Contract Intensive Money 0 0 3 294 2 9 26 1,448
Crossing the threshold: an analysis of IBRD graduation policy 1 1 2 60 4 10 15 246
Determinants of lasting democracy in poor countries 0 0 1 38 1 1 3 121
Deterring kickbacks and encouraging entry in public procurement markets: evidence from firm surveys in 88 developing countries 0 0 0 21 0 2 6 45
Did states' motor voter programs help the Democrats? 1 1 1 7 1 4 7 44
Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy? 2 2 2 98 3 7 14 240
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 0 60 1 7 8 234
Does motor voter work? Evidence from state-level data 0 0 0 18 1 7 9 128
Donor fragmentation 0 0 0 52 0 5 10 167
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 1 2 5 433 1 14 26 1,151
Drivers Wanted: Motor Voter and the Election of 1996 0 0 0 4 3 7 11 49
Election Day Registration: The Second Wave 0 0 0 15 0 3 7 86
Election-day registration and turnout inequality 0 0 0 23 0 2 3 94
Empowerment as a zero-sum game 0 0 0 40 3 6 12 302
For shame! The effect of community cooperative context on the probability of voting 0 0 0 9 0 0 2 58
Foreign aid and market-liberalizing reform 0 0 0 217 0 6 11 625
Gender and Corruption 0 0 2 1,383 11 23 36 4,280
Gender and Corruption 1 3 3 104 2 13 17 412
Governance and growth: measurement and evidence 0 0 1 62 1 4 10 201
How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income Countries ? 0 0 0 37 13 52 63 121
Individual and country-level factors affecting support for foreign aid 0 0 0 169 4 9 16 697
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 0 2 14 759 3 10 39 1,730
Interactions among donors'aid allocations: evidence from an exogenous World Bank income threshold 0 0 0 73 1 4 7 94
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 0 0 0 141 1 9 16 517
It's only words: validating the CPIA governance assessments 0 0 0 25 1 6 6 79
Measuring corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: a critique of the cross-country indicators 0 0 0 381 3 6 16 884
Moving Up the Ladder: An Analysis of IDA Graduation Policy 1 1 4 24 3 6 17 147
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 0 0 0 33 1 6 9 75
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 0 2 9 689 3 11 42 2,125
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 0 1 55 2 9 14 217
Poverty and policy selectivity of World Bank trust funds 0 0 0 9 0 2 5 45
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 106 2 9 16 405
Roll-off at the top of the ballot: intentional undervoting in American presidential elections 0 0 0 15 0 2 8 191
Second generation governance indicators 0 0 0 70 1 2 4 178
Social capital and the quality of Government: evidence from the U.S. States 1 1 5 528 4 10 17 1,444
Social capital, growth and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence 0 1 1 135 2 12 22 368
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 1 8 301 4 16 39 992
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 0 1 3 536
Sovereign rents and the quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 0 85 0 7 12 193
Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid 0 0 0 13 0 3 7 42
The Effect of Aid on Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment 0 0 2 88 2 12 20 263
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: theory and evidence 0 0 0 64 0 2 5 222
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a quasi-experiment 1 2 4 164 4 12 19 358
The reappearing American voter why did turnout rise in '92? 0 0 0 7 0 17 26 94
The worldwide governance indicators and tautology: causally related separable concepts, indicators of a common cause, or both ? 0 0 0 148 5 14 21 445
Toward More Operationally Relevant Indicators of Governance 0 0 0 7 0 2 2 25
Trust, assocational life, and economic performance 1 1 9 128 4 10 32 623
Unbundling institutions for external finance: worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 0 38 0 8 12 97
Viewers like you: community norms and contributions to public broadcasting 0 0 0 7 1 6 7 97
Voided Ballot in the 1996 Presidential Election: A County-Level Analysis 0 0 0 10 2 4 9 98
When do donors trust recipient country systems ? 1 1 1 66 2 4 6 153
Which donors, which funds ? the choice of multilateral funds by bilateral donors at the World Bank 0 0 0 22 0 10 13 66
Who Uses Inferior Voting Technology? 0 0 0 9 1 4 5 82
World Bank lending and the quality of economic policy 0 0 0 78 0 2 9 105
World Bank lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 1 4 0 4 11 20
World Bank policy lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 0 27 2 7 11 91
Total Working Papers 13 27 98 9,592 120 576 1,042 30,977


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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AID, ECONOMIC FREEDOM, AND GROWTH 0 0 0 58 0 2 7 168
Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: Cross‐Country Empirical Tests 1 4 8 14 4 24 46 68
Aid Quality and Donor Rankings 0 0 1 36 1 3 9 153
Aid Tying and Donor Fragmentation 0 0 1 36 2 6 48 239
Aid and donor trust in recipient country systems 0 0 1 60 1 5 18 247
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid? 0 0 2 5 1 6 13 19
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 1 2 10 213 4 20 48 585
Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems: Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration? 0 0 1 11 0 4 5 48
Civic Norms, Social Sanctions, and Voter Turnout 0 0 0 5 0 5 11 38
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 0 2 2 689 2 11 16 2,201
Crossing the threshold: A positive analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 0 1 25 0 7 11 151
Determinants of Economic Growth By Robert Barro. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 145. $22.50 0 0 3 4 0 4 8 12
Determinants of Lasting Democracy in Poor Countries: Culture, Development, and Institutions 0 1 1 6 0 9 9 16
Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets: Evidence from Firm Surveys in 90 Developing Countries 0 0 0 13 1 4 11 54
Deterring Voter Registration Through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data 0 0 0 12 0 3 6 93
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 4 9 564
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 2 9 32 565 11 54 144 5,717
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 3 6 17 577 9 25 62 1,550
Foreign Aid and Market‐Liberalizing Reform 0 0 0 92 2 8 11 306
Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 1 2 120 2 18 34 2,084
Gender and corruption 2 5 15 1,165 4 24 89 3,646
Groups, Growth and Trust: Cross-Country Evidence on the Olson and Putnam Hypotheses 0 0 0 185 2 6 10 462
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 7 15 45 1,357 54 139 256 3,960
Institutions and the Convergence Hypothesis: The Cross-National Evidence 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 878
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 0 0 2 48 3 8 11 241
Measuring Corruption: A Critique of Indicators in Eastern Europe and Central Asia 0 1 1 16 1 5 9 63
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 0 0 1 15 1 5 8 95
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 0 1 1 205 1 8 21 663
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 0 0 9 0 5 12 99
Poverty and Policy Selectivity of World Bank Trust Funds 0 0 0 1 0 2 9 36
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 0 7 27 1,009
Sovereign rents and quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 1 43 1 6 17 172
The Voter Participation Effects of Selecting Jurors from Registration Lists 0 0 0 2 0 7 10 192
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Six, One, or None? 3 8 11 341 6 20 46 920
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: Theory and evidence 0 0 0 31 0 7 10 143
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a Quasi-experiment 1 9 21 485 7 52 135 3,502
Trade intensity, country size and corruption 0 0 0 223 0 4 7 574
Trust and Growth 0 0 0 2,084 10 56 188 5,771
Unbundling institutions for external finance: Worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 1 15 0 7 17 76
Which Donors, Which Funds? Bilateral Donors' Choice of Multilateral Funds at the World Bank 0 0 0 8 1 7 9 49
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 7 21 53 2,586
World Bank Lending and the Quality of Economic Policy 0 0 0 3 1 7 11 35
World Bank Policy Lending and the Quality of Public-Sector Governance 0 0 0 12 6 16 22 95
Total Journal Articles 20 64 181 8,806 146 644 1,513 39,680


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 7 10 72
Total Books 0 0 0 3 0 7 10 72


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Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 14
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 1 1 1 7 25 81
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 2 9 14 30
Total Chapters 0 0 1 1 3 17 43 125


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