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Beatrice Weder
Researcher at Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Publications - 83
Citations - 9103
Beatrice Weder is an academic researcher from Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. The author has contributed to research in topics: Corruption & Private sector. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 83 publications receiving 8853 citations. Previous affiliations of Beatrice Weder include University of Mainz & University of Basel.
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A free press is bad news for corruption
Aymo Brunetti,Beatrice Weder +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found evidence of a significant relationship between more press freedom and less corruption in a large cross-section of countries and suggested that the direction of causation runs from higher press freedom to lower corruption.
World development report 1997 : the state in a changing world
Alison Margaret Evans,Brian Levy,Simon John Commander,Harald Fuhr,Cheikh T. Kane,Chad Leechor,Beatrice Weder,Ajay Chhibber,Sanjay Pradhan +8 more
TL;DR: The state's role in the institutional environment underlying the economy, that is, its ability to enforce a rule of law to underpin transactions, is vital to making government contribute more effectively to development as discussed by the authors.
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Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid
Alberto Alesina,Beatrice Weder +1 more
TL;DR: This article found no evidence that an increase in foreign aid reduces corruption, and in fact, according to some measures of corruption, more corrupt governments receive more aid, while less corrupt governments get less aid.
The State in a Changing World. World Development Report, 1997.
Ajay Chhibber,Simon John Commander,Alison Margaret Evans,Harald Fuhr,Cheikh T. Kane,Chad Leechor,Brian Levy,Sanjay Pradhan,Beatrice Weder +8 more
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Bureaucratic corruption and the rate of temptation: do wages in the civil service affect corruption, and by how much?
TL;DR: The authors found evidence of a statistically and economically significant relationship between relative civil-service pay and corruption in regressions based on cross-country averages, where they control for a wide array of variables.