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ECONOMIC ACCOUNTABILITY (3) answer(s).
 
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Fragements of economic accountability and trade policy / Kennedy, Ryan   Journal Article
Kennedy, Ryan Journal Article
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Publication 2007.
Key Words Trade  Trade Policy  Economic Accountability 
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Targeting, accountability and capture in development projects / Winters, Matthew S   Journal Article
Winters, Matthew S Journal Article
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Publication 2014.
Summary/Abstract If development projects are to be effective, a minimum requirement is that the funding reaches its intended destination. Yet the history of international development is replete with examples of this not happening. I argue that there will be fewer problems with corruption or other diversions of funding-which I jointly label capture-in more precisely targeted projects. More well-defined targeting results in superior accountability relationships because there is greater clarity of responsibility, clearer information about outcomes, and improved identifiability of stakeholders. I use an original cross-country, cross-project data set on the incidence of capture in World Bank-funded investment projects to test the theory. The data show a negative relationship between targeting and capture, and I demonstrate that this relationship is robust to a variety of specifications. In addition, I find that there is a higher baseline likelihood of project capture in countries perceived as more corrupt according to commonly used survey-based measures from Transparency International and the Worldwide Governance Indicators, cross-validating those measures and my own
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Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region measures on poverty alleviati / Wang, Ted (Tr.)   Journal Article
Wang, Ted (Tr.) Journal Article
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Publication 2012.
Summary/Abstract These measures are enacted in order to implement the important "three represents "thinking, realize the goal of building a, overall moderately well-off society put for-ward by the Sixteenth Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, accelerate the new phase of poverty alleviation and development in the autonomous region, continuously improve and perfect the management of poverty alleviation funds, ensure the safety and effectiveness of poverty alleviation funds, give full play toothier use efficiency, promote the economic development of poor counties (cities),enable poor farmers and ranchers to shake off poverty and attain prosperity as soon as possible, and provide active supervisory and guarantee measures
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