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Essays on urbanisation and governance in developing countries
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This thesis examines the role of the state in shaping economic outcomes in rapidly urbanising developing countries.
Increasing the effectiveness of the state is a major challenge facing most developing countries today. Chapter 1 focusses on one important factor that constrains the state’s ability to provide public goods to all citizens: citizens’ physical remoteness from their administrators. Using rich data on village India, and a spatial regression discontinuity design, this chapt...
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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English
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2019-10-18
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- Nagpal, K
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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