Decentralisation as authoritarian upgrading? Evidence from Jordan and Morocco

Community-driven Development and Social Capital: Evidence from Morocco

Community-driven development programs rest on the principle of development aid through active community participation. Their demand-driven and bottom-up nature of decision making is expected to promote pro-social behaviors. This paper studies the impact of one such program in rural Morocco on social capital. We use behavioral experiments in the field to measure social capital among households l...

Local financial development and firm performance: Evidence from Morocco

a r t i c l e i n f o Combining data from the Moroccan census of manufacturing enterprises with information from a commune survey, we test whether firm expansion is affected by local financial development. Our findings are consistent with this hypothesis: local bank availability is robustly associated with faster growth for small and medium-size firms in sectors with growth opportunities, with ...

Capital structure and corporate performance: evidence from Jordan

This study is to investigate the effect which capital structure has had on corporate performance using a panel data sample representing of 167 Jordanian companies during 1989-2003. Our results showed that a firm’s capital structure had a significantly negative impact on the firm’s performance measures, in both the accounting and market’s measures. We also found that the short-term debt to total...

Sustainable livelihoods and political capital: Arguments and evidence from decentralisation and natural resource management in India

Trade and Job Reallocation: Evidence for Morocco

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