Can good projects succeed in bad communities

By Asim Ijaz Khwaja. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Corruption in Developing Countries (2012, unknown): “Khwaja and Mian (2005) show that politically connected firms, defined as those with a politician on their boards, receive 45 percent larger loans from government banks in spite of having a 50 percent higher default rates on these loans.”
Economic versus Cultural Differences: Forms of Ethnic Diversity and Public Goods Provision (2010, background): “Khwaja (2009) finds that inequality makes it more difficult for communities to create infrastructure projects, and Bardhan (2000) and Dayton-Johnson (2000) find that inequality in landholdings negatively affects the collective management of water resources.”
Traditional Governance, Citizen Engagement, and Local Public Goods: Evidence from Mexico (2014, background): “Studies finding evidence of the impact of social heterogeneity in public good provision across nations and within countries include Alesina and La Ferrara (2000), Khwaja (2009), Miguel (2004), Miguel and Gugerty (2005), DaytonJohnson (2000), and Baqir (2002).”
Is Community Management an Efficient and Effective Model of Public Service Delivery? Lessons from the Rural Water Supply Sector in Malawi (2015, background): “Community mechanics may not have the skills required and indeed community involvement in technical decision-making may lead to sub-optimal choices (Khwaja, 2009).”
Learning from international development projects: Blending Critical Project Studies and Critical Development Studies (2014, background): “For example, the contingent project design orthodoxy (Khwaja, 2009) bears little weight in face of the broader asymmetrical distribution of power between the world's richest countries, institutions, and people and its poorest (Ika and Saint-Macary, 2012).”
Do decentralized innovation systems promote agricultural technology adoption? Experimental evidence from Africa (2014, background): “First, the success of IPs may depend on ‘‘community factors’’ such 4 These are the IPs for which we find a significant and positive impact of intervention in Table 4B. as social capital or resources available at the village (e.g. see Khwaja, 2009).”