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Aid and trust in country systems 0 0 0 144 0 0 1 254
Aid dependence and the quality of governance: a cross-country empirical analysis 0 0 6 751 3 8 32 1,669
Aid quality and donor rankings 0 0 1 120 1 1 4 263
Aid tying and donor fragmentation 0 0 0 55 1 3 5 209
Are larger countries really more corrupt? 0 1 1 352 0 5 9 2,700
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid ? 0 0 1 21 0 0 6 73
Bilateralizing multilateral aid? Aid allocation by World Bank trust funds 0 0 0 47 0 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 0 1 32 0 0 2 93
Building trust: public policy, interpersonal trust and economic development 1 1 1 154 2 6 11 482
Civic norms, social sanctions and voting turnout 0 1 3 66 0 1 9 276
Contract Intensive Money 1 3 5 294 1 4 26 1,434
Crossing the threshold: an analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 0 0 58 1 1 5 234
Determinants of lasting democracy in poor countries 0 0 0 37 0 0 3 119
Deterring kickbacks and encouraging entry in public procurement markets: evidence from firm surveys in 88 developing countries 0 0 1 21 0 1 6 40
Did states' motor voter programs help the Democrats? 0 0 0 6 0 1 3 39
Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy? 0 0 6 96 0 2 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 1 2 120
Donor fragmentation 0 0 3 52 2 2 7 160
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 0 0 3 430 1 2 8 1,129
Drivers Wanted: Motor Voter and the Election of 1996 0 0 0 4 0 3 3 41
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 1 4 292
For shame! The effect of community cooperative context on the probability of voting 0 0 0 9 0 1 2 57
Foreign aid and market-liberalizing reform 0 0 0 217 1 2 4 617
Gender and Corruption 0 0 0 101 0 0 3 396
Gender and Corruption 0 0 5 1,383 1 5 20 4,254
Governance and growth: measurement and evidence 0 0 0 61 0 2 5 193
How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income Countries ? 0 0 1 37 0 1 6 62
Individual and country-level factors affecting support for foreign aid 0 0 1 169 0 0 8 683
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 1 3 17 756 3 9 39 1,713
Interactions among donors'aid allocations: evidence from an exogenous World Bank income threshold 0 0 0 73 0 1 1 88
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 0 0 0 141 0 0 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 6 381 0 2 13 871
Moving Up the Ladder: An Analysis of IDA Graduation Policy 1 1 3 22 1 2 11 135
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 0 12 686 4 4 41 2,109
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 0 0 54 0 1 1 204
Poverty and policy selectivity of World Bank trust funds 0 0 0 9 0 1 1 41
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 106 0 1 7 393
Roll-off at the top of the ballot: intentional undervoting in American presidential elections 0 0 0 15 2 5 7 188
Second generation governance indicators 0 0 3 70 0 1 5 175
Social capital and the quality of Government: evidence from the U.S. States 0 1 3 525 0 2 11 1,430
Social capital, growth and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence 0 0 2 134 0 4 17 353
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 3 4 5 298 3 4 13 962
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 0 1 3 534
Sovereign rents and the quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 0 85 0 1 3 183
Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid 0 0 1 13 0 1 2 36
The Effect of Aid on Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment 0 0 2 87 0 0 9 246
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: theory and evidence 0 0 0 64 2 3 3 220
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a quasi-experiment 0 0 1 160 2 3 6 342
The reappearing American voter why did turnout rise in '92? 0 0 0 7 0 0 21 72
The worldwide governance indicators and tautology: causally related separable concepts, indicators of a common cause, or both ? 0 0 0 148 0 2 8 428
Toward More Operationally Relevant Indicators of Governance 0 0 1 7 0 0 2 23
Trust, assocational life, and economic performance 0 0 10 126 0 1 22 605
Unbundling institutions for external finance: worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 0 38 0 1 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 2 4 92
When do donors trust recipient country systems ? 0 0 0 65 0 0 1 147
Which donors, which funds ? the choice of multilateral funds by bilateral donors at the World Bank 0 0 1 22 1 1 4 54
Who Uses Inferior Voting Technology? 0 0 0 9 1 1 1 78
World Bank lending and the quality of economic policy 0 0 1 78 0 1 4 99
World Bank lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 1 3 0 2 4 11
World Bank policy lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 0 27 0 1 2 81
Total Working Papers 7 15 110 9,544 35 113 496 30,179


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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AID, ECONOMIC FREEDOM, AND GROWTH 0 0 1 58 0 1 3 163
Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: Cross‐Country Empirical Tests 0 1 4 9 3 5 14 32
Aid Quality and Donor Rankings 0 0 3 36 0 1 8 147
Aid Tying and Donor Fragmentation 0 0 1 35 0 18 63 232
Aid and donor trust in recipient country systems 0 1 1 60 0 4 5 233
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid? 0 0 2 5 0 0 5 10
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 0 3 11 210 1 10 23 553
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 2 2 9 30
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 0 0 0 687 0 0 3 2,186
Crossing the threshold: A positive analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 0 1 25 1 2 6 143
Determinants of Economic Growth By Robert Barro. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 145. $22.50 0 0 3 3 1 1 5 7
Determinants of Lasting Democracy in Poor Countries: Culture, Development, and Institutions 0 0 1 5 0 0 1 7
Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets: Evidence from Firm Surveys in 90 Developing Countries 0 0 2 13 1 3 6 46
Deterring Voter Registration Through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data 0 0 0 12 0 1 2 88
Deterring Voter Registration through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data 0 0 0 17 2 3 3 100
Does Rain Help the Republicans? Theory and Evidence on Turnout and the Vote 0 0 0 0 0 3 11 558
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 1 6 67 545 5 24 175 5,620
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 1 7 13 568 2 12 39 1,513
Foreign Aid and Market‐Liberalizing Reform 0 0 2 92 0 1 6 297
Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 0 118 2 5 8 2,057
Gender and corruption 2 4 23 1,158 8 14 88 3,591
Groups, Growth and Trust: Cross-Country Evidence on the Olson and Putnam Hypotheses 0 0 0 185 0 1 4 454
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 3 8 57 1,335 5 34 153 3,778
Institutions and the Convergence Hypothesis: The Cross-National Evidence 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 873
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 0 0 1 47 0 0 3 231
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 1 1 3 88
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 0 0 4 204 0 0 14 647
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 0 0 9 0 0 7 91
Poverty and Policy Selectivity of World Bank Trust Funds 0 0 0 1 1 3 5 32
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 0 5 16 991
Sovereign rents and quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 1 43 2 4 10 162
The Voter Participation Effects of Selecting Jurors from Registration Lists 0 0 1 2 0 2 4 184
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Six, One, or None? 1 1 5 332 3 6 17 885
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: Theory and evidence 0 0 0 31 1 2 3 135
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a Quasi-experiment 1 3 21 471 5 20 126 3,425
Trade intensity, country size and corruption 0 0 0 223 0 2 6 570
Trust and Growth 0 0 0 2,084 1 7 44 5,619
Unbundling institutions for external finance: Worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 1 14 1 1 4 60
Which Donors, Which Funds? Bilateral Donors' Choice of Multilateral Funds at the World Bank 0 0 1 8 1 1 6 42
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 0 6 38 2,559
World Bank Lending and the Quality of Economic Policy 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 25
World Bank Policy Lending and the Quality of Public-Sector Governance 0 0 0 12 0 0 3 74
Total Journal Articles 9 34 227 8,704 49 206 955 38,635


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


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 12
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 1 4 16 62
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 20
Total Chapters 0 0 0 0 2 8 27 94


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