Essays on urbanisation and governance in developing countries

Thesis

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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Authors: Nagpal, K

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Subjects: Development economics