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This book brings together an international team of contributors to assess the political economy of the IMF and World Bank programmes. The cutting-edge techniques of the new political economy are thus brought to bear on international issues for the fi
Autor:
Stephen Kosack, Akshay Dixit, Jean Arkedis, Jessica Creighton, Dan Levy, Courtney Tolmie, Archon Fung
Publikováno v:
World Development
Highlights • We assess the impact of a transparency & accountability program on health outcomes. • We use randomized controlled trials involving 400 villages across Indonesia and Tanzania. • On average, no evidence of a treatment effect on mate
Autor:
Stephen Kosack, Ricardo Hausmann, Kim Albrecht, Michele Coscia, Albert-László Barabási, Evann Smith
Publikováno v:
Kosack, S, Coscia, M, Smith, E, Albrecht, K, Barabasi, A-L & Hausmann, R 2018, ' Functional structures of US state governments ', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803228115
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Significance Understanding of modern government is limited by a lack of comprehensive, reliable, comparable data on what governments do and how they are organized to execute their diverse responsibilities. We demonstrate that such data can be collect
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https://pure.itu.dk/portal/da/publications/a1c26168-2dab-423d-b2ef-fa52b7cf5c6d
https://pure.itu.dk/portal/da/publications/a1c26168-2dab-423d-b2ef-fa52b7cf5c6d
Autor:
Stephen Kosack, Jennifer L. Tobin
Publikováno v:
World Development. 76:95-113
Summary We attempt to reconcile competing arguments regarding international trade’s implications for citizen well-being: that trade either erodes citizen welfare by decreasing the incentives and resources for welfare improvements or leads to higher
Autor:
Stephen Kosack, Archon Fung
Publikováno v:
Annual Review of Political Science. 17:65-87
In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the potential of transparency—the provision of information to the public—to improve governance in both developed and developing societies. In this article, we characterize and assess the evol
Autor:
Stephen Kosack
Publikováno v:
British Journal of Political Science. 44:409-444
This article argues against the scholarly consensus that governments make pro-poor policies when they are democratic. In democracies and autocracies, a government's strongest incentive is to serve citizens who are organized, and poor citizens face co
Autor:
Stephen Kosack
Publikováno v:
Comparative Education. 45:495-523
The goal of Education for All (EFA) is in jeopardy, and the cause is widely perceived to be a lack of political will. But we lack an accurate definition of political will. In this article, I offer a definition that determines beforehand whether a gov
Autor:
Gustav Ranis, Stephen Kosack
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The Singapore Economic Review. 54(04):489-527
No abstract received.
Autor:
Stephen Kosack
Publikováno v:
World Development. 31:1-22
Research into foreign aid has mostly focused on its ability to affect economic (i.e., GDP per capita) growth. Conclusions have been mixed. I consider aid’s effectiveness differently: by its ability to improve quality of life. I find that, though ai
Autor:
Stephen Kosack, Lloyd Gruber
Summary Education is widely perceived to be a tonic for the rising inequality that often accompanies development. But most developing-country governments tilt their education spending toward higher education, which disproportionately benefits elites.
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http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/54202/
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/54202/