On May 15th, Pepita Miquel-Florensa, Assistant Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics and Research Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study in Tolouse, presented her paper "Voting Corrupt Politicians Out of Office: Evidence from an Experiment in Paraguay". This question is specially relevant while analyzing the way in which democratic institutions work in Latin American countries, where corruption is usually very common and frequently accepted by the population.
Paraguay is ranked 123 out of 176 in the corruption perception index, and this is demonstrated by sev...
Nishith Prakash, from University of Connecticut, in an interview for the 6th NCID Research Workshop. He spoke about the effect of criminally accused politicians on economic outcomes in India.
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NCID Resident Fellow Alex Armand has recently participated in the workshop “Beyond Development Aid: Sanitation Financing & Revenue Models in Reuse (human) Waste”. The workshop, co-organized by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and WASTE, was held in the Netherlands, the 15th of May.
The event was organized as part of 3ie’s funded project on Slum Sanitation in India, in w...