This paper explores a global public goods approach to the health of migrants. It suggests that this approach establishes that there are a number of health goods which must be provided to migrants not because these are theirs by right (although this may independently be the case), but because these goods are primary goods which fit the threefold criteria of global public goods. There are two key...

Crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular means to fund the provision of public goods and especially nature conservation projects. We implement a lab-in-the-field experiment by setting up web-based user interface, very similar actual crowdfunding platforms, test whether coordination mechanisms, like seed money decoy projects, can increase effectiveness campaigns if multiple projects are e...

It is widely believed that clientelism—the giving of material goods in return for electoral support—is associated with poorer development outcomes. However, systematic cross-country evidence on the deleterious effects clientelism outcomes lacking. In this paper we examine relationship between political clientelism, public provision, and governance quality using panel data 161 countries period 1...