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Aid and trust in country systems 0 0 0 144 0 0 2 254
Aid dependence and the quality of governance: a cross-country empirical analysis 0 1 6 751 4 9 28 1,665
Aid quality and donor rankings 0 1 1 120 0 2 3 262
Aid tying and donor fragmentation 0 0 0 55 2 2 5 208
Are larger countries really more corrupt? 0 0 0 351 0 1 6 2,695
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid ? 0 0 1 21 0 2 6 73
Bilateralizing multilateral aid? Aid allocation by World Bank trust funds 0 0 0 47 2 2 2 151
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 1 1 32 0 1 2 93
Building trust: public policy, interpersonal trust and economic development 0 0 0 153 1 2 6 477
Civic norms, social sanctions and voting turnout 0 0 2 65 0 0 9 275
Contract Intensive Money 2 2 6 293 3 6 27 1,433
Crossing the threshold: an analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 0 0 58 0 2 5 233
Determinants of lasting democracy in poor countries 0 0 0 37 0 1 3 119
Deterring kickbacks and encouraging entry in public procurement markets: evidence from firm surveys in 88 developing countries 0 0 1 21 1 1 6 40
Did states' motor voter programs help the Democrats? 0 0 0 6 0 1 3 38
Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy? 0 0 6 96 2 4 13 231
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 2 60 0 0 3 226
Does motor voter work? Evidence from state-level data 0 0 0 18 0 0 1 119
Donor fragmentation 0 0 4 52 0 1 7 158
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 0 2 3 430 1 3 7 1,128
Drivers Wanted: Motor Voter and the Election of 1996 0 0 0 4 2 2 2 40
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 1 4 291
For shame! The effect of community cooperative context on the probability of voting 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 56
Foreign aid and market-liberalizing reform 0 0 0 217 0 1 2 615
Gender and Corruption 0 2 6 1,383 4 8 20 4,253
Gender and Corruption 0 0 0 101 0 1 3 396
Governance and growth: measurement and evidence 0 0 0 61 2 2 6 193
How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income Countries ? 0 0 1 37 1 3 6 62
Individual and country-level factors affecting support for foreign aid 0 0 1 169 0 1 9 683
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 1 6 15 754 3 11 33 1,707
Interactions among donors'aid allocations: evidence from an exogenous World Bank income threshold 0 0 0 73 1 1 2 88
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 0 0 0 141 0 2 6 503
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 8 381 1 2 14 870
Moving Up the Ladder: An Analysis of IDA Graduation Policy 0 1 3 21 1 3 11 134
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 4 12 686 0 18 42 2,105
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 0 0 54 0 0 0 203
Poverty and policy selectivity of World Bank trust funds 0 0 0 9 1 1 1 41
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 106 0 1 8 392
Roll-off at the top of the ballot: intentional undervoting in American presidential elections 0 0 1 15 1 1 5 184
Second generation governance indicators 0 0 3 70 1 1 5 175
Social capital and the quality of Government: evidence from the U.S. States 1 2 3 525 2 3 12 1,430
Social capital, growth and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence 0 0 3 134 1 3 17 350
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 1 2 2 295 1 4 11 959
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 1 1 3 534
Sovereign rents and the quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 0 85 1 1 3 183
Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid 0 0 1 13 1 1 2 36
The Effect of Aid on Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment 0 1 2 87 0 3 11 246
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 0 1 160 1 1 5 340
The reappearing American voter why did turnout rise in '92? 0 0 0 7 0 4 21 72
The worldwide governance indicators and tautology: causally related separable concepts, indicators of a common cause, or both ? 0 0 0 148 1 1 9 427
Toward More Operationally Relevant Indicators of Governance 0 0 1 7 0 0 2 23
Trust, assocational life, and economic performance 0 2 10 126 0 4 27 604
Unbundling institutions for external finance: worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 0 38 1 3 5 88
Viewers like you: community norms and contributions to public broadcasting 0 0 0 7 0 0 3 90
Voided Ballot in the 1996 Presidential Election: A County-Level Analysis 0 0 0 10 1 1 3 91
When do donors trust recipient country systems ? 0 0 1 65 0 0 3 147
Which donors, which funds ? the choice of multilateral funds by bilateral donors at the World Bank 0 0 1 22 0 0 3 53
Who Uses Inferior Voting Technology? 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 77
World Bank lending and the quality of economic policy 0 0 1 78 1 3 4 99
World Bank lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 1 3 1 1 3 10
World Bank policy lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 0 27 1 1 2 81
Total Working Papers 5 27 111 9,534 48 135 477 30,114


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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AID, ECONOMIC FREEDOM, AND GROWTH 0 0 1 58 0 0 2 162
Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: Cross‐Country Empirical Tests 1 2 4 9 2 5 11 29
Aid Quality and Donor Rankings 0 1 3 36 0 2 9 146
Aid Tying and Donor Fragmentation 0 0 1 35 12 29 60 226
Aid and donor trust in recipient country systems 1 1 1 60 2 2 3 231
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid? 0 1 2 5 0 3 5 10
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 2 5 10 209 6 11 19 549
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 0 1 7 28
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 0 0 0 687 0 1 4 2,186
Crossing the threshold: A positive analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 1 1 25 1 2 5 142
Determinants of Economic Growth By Robert Barro. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 145. $22.50 0 0 3 3 0 0 4 6
Determinants of Lasting Democracy in Poor Countries: Culture, Development, and Institutions 0 0 2 5 0 0 2 7
Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets: Evidence from Firm Surveys in 90 Developing Countries 0 0 2 13 1 1 4 44
Deterring Voter Registration Through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data 0 0 0 12 0 0 1 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 2 2 10 557
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 1 7 66 540 8 29 175 5,604
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 3 4 10 564 6 17 36 1,507
Foreign Aid and Market‐Liberalizing Reform 0 0 2 92 0 1 6 296
Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 0 118 2 4 10 2,054
Gender and corruption 2 6 25 1,156 6 22 101 3,583
Groups, Growth and Trust: Cross-Country Evidence on the Olson and Putnam Hypotheses 0 0 0 185 1 2 5 454
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 4 14 62 1,331 19 48 159 3,763
Institutions and the Convergence Hypothesis: The Cross-National Evidence 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 873
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 0 1 2 47 0 1 4 231
Measuring Corruption: A Critique of Indicators in Eastern Europe and Central Asia 0 0 0 15 0 0 1 54
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 0 0 0 14 0 0 3 87
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 0 0 5 204 0 3 17 647
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 0 0 9 0 4 7 91
Poverty and Policy Selectivity of World Bank Trust Funds 0 0 0 1 1 3 5 30
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 2 4 14 988
Sovereign rents and quality of tax policy and administration 0 1 1 43 0 2 8 158
The Voter Participation Effects of Selecting Jurors from Registration Lists 0 0 1 2 1 1 3 183
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Six, One, or None? 0 0 4 331 2 5 17 881
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: Theory and evidence 0 0 0 31 1 1 2 134
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a Quasi-experiment 1 2 21 469 8 33 127 3,413
Trade intensity, country size and corruption 0 0 1 223 1 2 6 569
Trust and Growth 0 0 0 2,084 0 5 39 5,612
Unbundling institutions for external finance: Worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 1 14 0 0 3 59
Which Donors, Which Funds? Bilateral Donors' Choice of Multilateral Funds at the World Bank 0 0 1 8 0 1 5 41
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 4 18 39 2,557
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 0 12 0 1 3 74
Total Journal Articles 15 46 232 8,685 88 268 946 38,517


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 1 3 4 65
Total Books 0 0 0 3 1 3 4 65


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Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 11
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 2 2 7 20
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 2 2 14 60
Total Chapters 0 0 0 0 5 5 24 91


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