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Aid and trust in country systems 0 0 0 144 0 0 13 267
Aid dependence and the quality of governance: a cross-country empirical analysis 0 1 7 758 6 11 63 1,721
Aid quality and donor rankings 0 0 0 120 2 3 12 274
Aid tying and donor fragmentation 0 0 0 55 1 2 11 217
Are larger countries really more corrupt? 1 2 3 354 8 22 59 2,753
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid ? 0 0 0 21 1 1 10 82
Bilateralizing multilateral aid? Aid allocation by World Bank trust funds 0 0 1 48 7 11 19 168
Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure 0 0 0 212 1 2 23 802
Building or bypassing recipient country systems: are donors defying the Paris declaration ? 0 0 0 32 5 6 12 105
Building trust: public policy, interpersonal trust and economic development 0 1 2 155 5 12 34 509
Civic norms, social sanctions and voting turnout 0 1 3 68 3 4 13 288
Contract Intensive Money 0 0 3 294 2 6 24 1,452
Crossing the threshold: an analysis of IBRD graduation policy 0 1 2 60 13 18 29 260
Determinants of lasting democracy in poor countries 0 0 1 38 1 2 3 122
Deterring kickbacks and encouraging entry in public procurement markets: evidence from firm surveys in 88 developing countries 0 0 0 21 1 1 7 46
Did states' motor voter programs help the Democrats? 0 1 1 7 4 5 10 48
Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy? 0 2 2 98 5 11 20 248
Does inequality harm growth only in democracies? A replication and extension 0 0 0 60 3 4 11 237
Does motor voter work? Evidence from state-level data 0 0 0 18 3 7 15 134
Donor fragmentation 0 0 0 52 3 3 12 170
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 1 2 4 434 6 8 31 1,158
Drivers Wanted: Motor Voter and the Election of 1996 0 0 0 4 1 4 12 50
Election Day Registration: The Second Wave 0 0 0 15 3 3 10 89
Election-day registration and turnout inequality 0 0 0 23 2 2 5 96
Empowerment as a zero-sum game 0 0 0 40 5 8 16 307
For shame! The effect of community cooperative context on the probability of voting 0 0 0 9 3 4 6 62
Foreign aid and market-liberalizing reform 0 0 0 217 2 4 15 629
Gender and Corruption 0 0 1 1,383 2 13 35 4,282
Gender and Corruption 0 1 3 104 1 4 19 414
Governance and growth: measurement and evidence 0 2 3 64 1 5 14 205
How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income Countries ? 0 0 0 37 4 34 83 142
Individual and country-level factors affecting support for foreign aid 0 0 0 169 5 10 20 703
Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Indicators 2 5 13 764 5 13 39 1,740
Interactions among donors'aid allocations: evidence from an exogenous World Bank income threshold 0 0 0 73 4 5 11 98
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 0 0 0 141 4 5 18 521
It's only words: validating the CPIA governance assessments 0 0 0 25 4 8 13 86
Measuring corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: a critique of the cross-country indicators 0 0 0 381 3 10 23 891
Moving Up the Ladder: An Analysis of IDA Graduation Policy 0 2 5 25 4 10 22 154
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 0 0 0 33 3 4 12 78
Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth 0 0 6 689 1 8 33 2,130
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 0 1 55 2 4 16 219
Poverty and policy selectivity of World Bank trust funds 0 0 0 9 2 2 7 47
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 1 1 107 4 7 18 410
Roll-off at the top of the ballot: intentional undervoting in American presidential elections 0 0 0 15 4 5 13 196
Second generation governance indicators 0 0 0 70 2 3 6 180
Social capital and the quality of Government: evidence from the U.S. States 0 1 5 528 3 10 23 1,450
Social capital, growth and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence 0 0 1 135 3 7 25 373
Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics 1 1 9 302 13 20 52 1,008
Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness 0 0 0 175 2 4 7 540
Sovereign rents and the quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 0 85 6 7 18 200
Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid 2 2 2 15 4 4 11 46
The Effect of Aid on Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment 0 0 1 88 6 8 23 269
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: theory and evidence 0 0 0 64 1 1 6 223
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a quasi-experiment 0 1 4 164 2 8 23 362
The reappearing American voter why did turnout rise in '92? 0 0 0 7 11 13 37 107
The worldwide governance indicators and tautology: causally related separable concepts, indicators of a common cause, or both ? 0 0 0 148 3 10 24 450
Toward More Operationally Relevant Indicators of Governance 0 0 0 7 1 1 3 26
Trust, assocational life, and economic performance 0 1 4 128 12 17 36 636
Unbundling institutions for external finance: worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 0 38 3 3 14 100
Viewers like you: community norms and contributions to public broadcasting 0 0 0 7 9 10 16 106
Voided Ballot in the 1996 Presidential Election: A County-Level Analysis 0 0 0 10 2 4 10 100
When do donors trust recipient country systems ? 0 1 1 66 3 5 9 156
Which donors, which funds ? the choice of multilateral funds by bilateral donors at the World Bank 0 0 0 22 5 5 18 71
Who Uses Inferior Voting Technology? 0 0 0 9 0 1 5 82
World Bank lending and the quality of economic policy 0 0 0 78 0 1 8 106
World Bank lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 1 4 1 1 12 21
World Bank policy lending and the quality of public sector governance 0 0 0 27 5 7 16 96
Total Working Papers 7 29 90 9,608 246 461 1,293 31,318


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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AID, ECONOMIC FREEDOM, AND GROWTH 0 0 0 58 0 1 7 169
Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: Cross‐Country Empirical Tests 1 3 9 16 6 18 57 82
Aid Quality and Donor Rankings 0 0 0 36 2 3 9 155
Aid Tying and Donor Fragmentation 0 0 1 36 1 4 35 241
Aid and donor trust in recipient country systems 0 0 1 60 5 6 23 252
Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid? 0 0 1 5 0 1 10 19
Boondoggles, Rent-Seeking, and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments 0 1 7 213 3 11 52 592
Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems: Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration? 0 0 1 11 1 1 6 49
Civic Norms, Social Sanctions, and Voter Turnout 0 0 0 5 0 2 13 40
Contract-Intensive Money: Contract Enforcement, Property Rights, and Economic Performance 0 0 2 689 2 8 22 2,207
Crossing the threshold: A positive analysis of IBRD graduation policy 1 1 1 26 3 7 17 158
Determinants of Economic Growth By Robert Barro. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 145. $22.50 0 0 1 4 1 1 7 13
Determinants of Lasting Democracy in Poor Countries: Culture, Development, and Institutions 0 0 1 6 2 2 11 18
Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets: Evidence from Firm Surveys in 90 Developing Countries 0 0 0 13 1 2 12 55
Deterring Voter Registration Through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data 0 0 0 12 0 0 6 93
Deterring Voter Registration through Juror Selection Practices: Evidence from Survey Data 0 0 0 17 2 3 6 103
Does Rain Help the Republicans? Theory and Evidence on Turnout and the Vote 0 0 0 0 1 3 12 567
Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation 3 11 38 574 18 54 181 5,760
Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients 6 12 26 586 14 34 79 1,575
Foreign Aid and Market‐Liberalizing Reform 0 0 0 92 6 10 18 314
Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa 2 2 4 122 9 14 45 2,096
Gender and corruption 1 3 14 1,166 3 12 84 3,654
Groups, Growth and Trust: Cross-Country Evidence on the Olson and Putnam Hypotheses 0 0 0 185 1 3 10 463
INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES 7 17 45 1,367 25 109 287 4,015
Institutions and the Convergence Hypothesis: The Cross-National Evidence 0 0 0 0 2 4 9 881
International aid and financial crises in donor countries 0 0 1 48 1 5 12 243
Measuring Corruption: A Critique of Indicators in Eastern Europe and Central Asia 0 1 2 17 2 6 14 68
On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies 0 0 1 15 0 1 8 95
Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth 1 1 2 206 4 5 21 667
Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs 0 1 1 10 5 8 16 107
Poverty and Policy Selectivity of World Bank Trust Funds 0 0 0 1 0 2 10 38
Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies 0 0 0 0 3 3 26 1,012
Sovereign rents and quality of tax policy and administration 0 0 1 43 2 3 17 174
The Voter Participation Effects of Selecting Jurors from Registration Lists 0 0 0 2 1 3 13 195
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Six, One, or None? 3 7 14 345 5 17 52 931
The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: Theory and evidence 0 0 0 31 5 6 16 149
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a Quasi-experiment 3 5 21 489 10 25 130 3,520
Trade intensity, country size and corruption 0 0 0 223 1 1 7 575
Trust and Growth 0 0 0 2,084 21 47 197 5,808
Unbundling institutions for external finance: Worldwide firm-level evidence 0 0 1 15 4 4 21 80
Which Donors, Which Funds? Bilateral Donors' Choice of Multilateral Funds at the World Bank 0 0 0 8 3 5 13 53
Why Don't Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of Institutional Explanation 0 0 0 0 6 19 57 2,598
World Bank Lending and the Quality of Economic Policy 0 0 0 3 1 2 12 36
World Bank Policy Lending and the Quality of Public-Sector Governance 0 0 0 12 3 14 29 103
Total Journal Articles 28 65 196 8,851 185 489 1,689 40,023


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 3 5 15 77
Total Books 0 0 0 3 3 5 15 77


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Political Stability and Economic Stagnation 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 16
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 0 0 4 6 16 34
Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics 0 0 1 1 5 10 32 90
Total Chapters 0 0 1 1 11 18 54 140


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