Boondoggles, rent-seeking, and political checks and balances: Public investment under unaccountable governments

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 566-572

  Keefer, Philip ^a   Knack, Stephen ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

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EID: 34548605098     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/rest.89.3.566     Document Type: Review

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