Coping with poor public capital

By R. Reinikka, Jakob Svensson. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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When do firms generate? Evidence on in-house electricity supply in Africa (2010, methodology): “Reinikka and Svensson (2002) analyzed the impact of poor provision of public capital goods on firm performance in Uganda.”
Infrastructure and Development: A Critical Appraisal of the Macro-level Literature (2008, background): “See among others, Lee et al. (1996) for Indonesia and Nigeria, Reinikka and Svensson (2002) for Uganda, Foster and Steinbucks (2009) for 25 African countries, and Alby et al. (2009) for a sample of 87 countries from the World Bank enterprise survey database 28.”
Aid, Governance and Private Foreign Investment: Some Puzzling Findings for the 1990s* (2006, background): “Reinikka and Svensson (2002) offer empirical evidence on the importance of infrastructure for foreign investors.”
Does Foreign Aid Increase Foreign Direct Investment (2012, background): “Reinikka and Svensson (2002) find empirical support for the importance of complementary public capital for foreign investors.”
The impact of land property rights interventions on investment and agricultural productivity in developing countries: a systematic review (2017, background): “A third possibility is that tenure recognition reforms in the African cases were not coupled with investments in complementary ‘public capital’ (Reinikka and Svensson 2002) in amanner resembling themore holistic agrarian reform processes in Asia and Latin America.”
Infrastructure and growth in South Africa : direct and indirect productivity impacts of 19 infrastructure measures (2006, unknown): “For instance, Reinikka and Svensson (1999) on microeconomic evidence ﬁ nd that poor public capital in Uganda signi ﬁ cantly reduces productive private investment - and see also Reinikka and Svensson (2002).”
Explaining Enterprise Performance in Developing Countries with Business Climate Survey Data (2008, methodology): “On the whole, Reinikka and Svensson (2002) conclude that their analysis of Ugandan firm level data shows that poor public capital ‘significantly reduces productive investment by firms’.55 They deduce that a poorly functioning public 53 In the empirical analysis the actual public power outcomes are…”
Using Micro-Surveys to Measure and Explain Corruption (2006, methodology): “The survey data have been used to evaluate the effects of trade liberalization on firm productivity (Gauthier, 2001), assess the bad news principle (Svensson, 2000b), and study the effects of, and coping with, poor public service provision (Reinikka & Svensson, 2002a, 2002b).”
Remittances and Development: Lessons from Latin America (2008, methodology): “Some of these variables have been used by other authors in other samples, such as Ros (1999), who used equivalent indicators for coverage, labor productivity, quality, and prices, but did so for the telecommunications sector.”
Paying the Price for Unreliable Power Supplies: In-House Generation of Electricity by Firms in Africa (2009, methodology): “3 Reinikka and Svensson (2002) analyzed the impact of poor provision of public capital goods on firm performance in Uganda.”
Emerging infrastructure policy issues in developing countries - a survey of the recent economic literature (2004, unknown): “are Reinikka and Svensson (2002), which shows that corruption damages the performance of public services; and Svensson (2003), which shows that the lower the competition, the higher the bribes paid to public officials.”