Local Capture: Evidence from a Central Government Transfer Program in Uganda

By R. Reinikka, Jakob Svensson. 2004

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Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Corruption and bank risk-taking: Evidence from emerging economies (2015, neutral): “…the inflow of foreign direct investment, the effectiveness of international aid, etc. and thus detrimental to economic growth (Murphy et al, 1993; Shleifer and Vishny, 1993; Mauro, 1995, 1997; Bardhan, 1997; Ehrlich and Lui, 1999; Wei, 2000; Mo, 2001; Reinikka and Svensson, 2004, Aidt, 2009).”
The challenge of poor governance and corruption (2005, background): “As pointed out by Rose-Ackerman (2004), many explanatory variables in the corruption equations are past events, historical or geographical givens, impossible to influence today, and useless in option search.”
Rent seeking and the economics of corruption (2016, background): “Expenditure tracking studies undertaken in many countries have demonstrated how vast amounts of public resources intended for schools and other public spending programmes simply disappear and never reach the intended beneficiaries (Reinikka and Svensson 2004).”
The Quality of Political Institutions and the Curse of Natural Resources (2011, neutral): “In Uganda only 13% of foreign aid granted for education in 1991–1995 actually reached primary schools (Reinikka and Svensson, 2004).”
What Determines Public Expenditure Allocations? A Review of Theories, and Implications for Agricultural Public Investment (2012, background): “…is determined by several factors, and the extent to which these factors are present will vary between rural and urban citizens, between large and small farmers, and between farmers in advanced countries with small agricultural sectors and farmers in poor countries with large agricultural sectors.”
Corruption and Transparency in a Growth Model (2006, background): “6. Reinikka and Svensson (2004) provide considerable insight into this problem.”
The Power of Information in Public Services: Evidence from Education in Uganda (2011, methodology): “Similarly, access to a newspaper kiosk could have affected the degree to which the UPE 11 Following Reinikka and Svensson (2004), we use national household survey data to derive mean consumption level across district–urban–rural locations to proxy for income.”
The role of democracy in Uganda's move to universal primary education (2005, background): “As argued by Reinikka and Svensson (2003), this increased transparency may be one important reason why the extent to which such funds are siphoned off by corruption has been reduced in recent years.”
Corruption and the costs of redistribution: Micro evidence from Indonesia (2006, neutral): “(See Rose-Ackerman (2004) for a survey.)”
Corruption, Institutions, and Economic Development (2009, background): “The setting of one of the rst tracking studies was Uganda in the beginning of the 1990s (Reinikka and Svensson, 2004).”
Does Greater Accountability Improve the Quality of Public Service Delivery? Evidence from Uganda (2005, positive): “This is confirmed by micro-studies pointing toward high rates of capture of public expenditure (Reinikka & Svensson, 2004).”