Ethnicity, Governance and the Provision of Public Goods


Autoria(s): Kimenyi, Mwangi S.
Data(s)

01/04/2003

Resumo

Ethnicity is an important institution and one that impacts on the quality of governance. This paper focuses on the behavior of ethnic groups and specifically on their impact on the provision of public goods. The paper shows that ethnic heterogeneity results in under-provision of non-excludable public goods. On the other hand, such societies associate with provision of patronage goods. The paper proposes some areas of research such the economics of ethnic institutions, empirical evidence of the role ethnic groups on public goods provision, tax compliance and institutional reforms to improve governance.

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application/pdf

Identificador

http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/econ_wpapers/200349

http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1244&context=econ_wpapers

Publicador

DigitalCommons@UConn

Fonte

Economics Working Papers

Palavras-Chave #Economics
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