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Institutional quality
Working Paper
Does aid fragmentation affect tax revenue dynamics in developing countries?: Observations with new tax data

There exists a burgeoning empirical literature on the impact of aid fragmentation on development outcomes in aid-receiving countries, with it being widely recognized that aid fragmentation is deleterious...

Aid fragmentation Tax revenue Institutional quality
Blog
Virtuous circles and downward spirals: The power of ideas & the limits of technocracy
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What will it take to shake loose the distemper of our times, and initiate a virtuous spiral of renewal?...

Sustainable development Institutional quality Democracy
Seminar
WIDER Seminar Series Inequality, institutions, and their impacts on social cooperation with Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal
21 September 2021
Online, Finland
Past event
Book Chapter
The interaction of institutional quality and human capital in shaping the dynamics of capital structure

From the book: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam

Capital Structure Human capital Trade-off theory
Journal Article
Horizontal inequality and ethnic diversity in Brazil: Patterns, trends, and their impacts on institutions

Part of Journal Special Issue Horizontal Inequality: Persistence and Change

Brazil Group-based inequality Ethnic diversity
Working Paper
The interaction of institutional quality and human capital in shaping the dynamics of capital structure in Vietnam

The aim of this paper is to find which of two theories of capital structure—trade-off theory or pecking order theory—best explains the capital structure decision of non-state firms during the post-transition process in Vietnam...

Capital Structure Human capital Trade-off theory
Working Paper
Patterns and trends of group-based inequality in Brazil

In this paper, we analyse the patterns and trends of group-based inequalities in Brazil in the past 30 years...

Brazil Group-based inequality Ethnic diversity
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