The Speed of Justice

Kondylis, Florence; Stein, Mattea

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-8372

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“…The World Bank ranks Senegal at 140 of 190 economies in terms of overall ease of doing business, and 142 in enforcing contracts. Its judiciary is based on French civil law, generally considered inferior to common law systems for securing property rights and growth in Africa (Joireman 2001), and its legal institutions suffer from excessive procedural formalism, limited judicial independence, and high costs and waiting times (Kondylis and Stein 2018). This results in negative perceptions on the part of citizens of the judiciary's accessibility.…”

Section: Rule Of Law and Methods Of Enforcementmentioning

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Political Determinants of Economic Exchange: Evidence from a Business Experiment in Senegal

Bhandari

2021

American J Political Sci

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Economic growth requires confidence in the state's ability to enforce secure exchange. But when states selectively enforce rule of law, political considerations can moderate the trust that buyers have in sellers. I argue that political connections produce moral hazard in exchange because they introduce biases in expectations of judicial enforcement. Buyers avoid trade with politically connected sellers, and, in this context of unequal enforcement, formal contracts disproportionately protect politically connected buyers. To examine these features of connections and contracts, I created a sales business in Senegal and randomized whether employees signaled political connections and/or offered formal contracts during transactions. The results show that political connections decreased buyers' willingness to exchange. Formal contracts increased exchange, though primarily for connected buyers. These findings show that asymmetric political connections can impede daily trade and intensify economic inequalities in developing contexts, while simultaneously demonstrating the limits of state institutions for mitigating politically driven moral hazard.

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Section: Rule Of Law and Methods Of Enforcementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political Determinants of Economic Exchange: Evidence from a Business Experiment in Senegal

Bhandari

2021

American J Political Sci

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“…Most projects require more than one data source to answer a research question. Data could be sourced from multiple survey rounds, acquired from various partners (such as administrative data or implementation data), acquired from technological tools like satellite imagery or web scraping, or sourced from complex combinations of these and other sources (for an example, see Kondylis and Stein 2018). Regardless of how the study data are structured, it is essential to know how to link data from all sources and analyze the relationships between units to answer the research questions.…”

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Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook

Bjärkefur¹,

Andrade²,

Daniels³

et al. 2021

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Some rights reserved 1 2 3 4 24 23 22 21This work is a product of the staff of The World Bank with external contributions. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this work do not necessarily reflect the views of The World Bank, its Board of Executive Directors, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or currency of the data included in this work and does not assume responsibility for any errors, omissions, or discrepancies in the information, or liability with respect to the use of or failure to use the information, methods, processes, or conclusions set forth. The boundaries, colors, denominations, and other information shown on any map in this work do not imply any judgment on the part of The World Bank concerning the legal status of any territory or the endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries.Nothing herein shall constitute or be construed or considered to be a limitation upon or waiver of the privileges and immunities of The World Bank, all of which are specifically reserved.

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“…In most studies, the evidence linking improved justice to investment fails to establish causality (Aboal, Nova and Rius 2014). Furthermore, the potential spill-overs (positive and negative) and tradeoffs of speeding up adjudication are seldom documented (Kondylis and Stein 2018).…”

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“…The evidence that does exist provides some indication of what works -successful reforms include training judges on better case flow management in Pakistan (Chemin 2009b); adopting first-in-first-out procedures in Italy (Bray et al 2016); placing time limits on decisions in Senegal (Kondylis and Stein 2018); establishing specialized courts and simplifying procedures in Brazil (Lichand and Soares 2014); providing better information to litigants in Mexico (Sadka, Seira and Woodruff 2018); or implementing a bundle of reforms, including court-appointed mediation, limits on trial duration and adjournments, required affidavit furnishment, and mobile justice in India (Chemin 2009a).…”

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Impacts of the Stimulate, Appreciate, Learn and Transfer community engagement approach to increase immunization coverage in Assam, India

Pramanik¹,

Ghosh²,

Goswami³

et al. 2020

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The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) promotes evidence-informed, equitable, inclusive and sustainable development. We support the generation and effective use of highquality evidence to inform decision-making and improve the lives of people living in poverty in low-and middle-income countries. We provide guidance and support to produce, synthesise and quality assure evidence of what works, for whom, how, why and at what cost.3ie impact evaluations 3ie-supported impact evaluations assess the difference a development intervention has made to social and economic outcomes. 3ie is committed to funding rigorous evaluations that include a theory-based design and that use the most appropriate mix of methods to capture outcomes and are useful in complex development contexts. About this report3ie accepted the final version of the report, Impacts of electronic case management systems on court congestion in the Philippines, as partial fulfilment of requirements under grant PWP.03.SC.IE awarded through Country Policy Window -Philippines. The content has been copy-edited and formatted for publication by 3ie.The 3ie technical quality assurance team for this report comprises Stuti Tripathi, Rosaine Yegbemey, Tara Kaul, Kirthi V Rao, Sayak Khatua, an anonymous external impact evaluation design expert reviewer and an anonymous external sector expert reviewer, with overall technical supervision by Marie Gaarder and Emmanuel Jimenez. The statistical analysis code used in generating the results in this study is available on 3ie's Harvard Dataverse. We are unable to make the datasets publicly available due to confidentiality requirements agreed between the Supreme Court of the Philippines, 3ie and the Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA). However, 3ie has reviewed and quality assured replication for datasets used in this evaluation. The 3ie editorial production team for this report comprises

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The Speed of Justice

Cited by 13 publications

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Political Determinants of Economic Exchange: Evidence from a Business Experiment in Senegal

Political Determinants of Economic Exchange: Evidence from a Business Experiment in Senegal

Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook

Impacts of the Stimulate, Appreciate, Learn and Transfer community engagement approach to increase immunization coverage in Assam, India

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