Bureaucratic Effects: `Weberian' State Agencies and Poverty Reduction Export

@article{citeulike:3503060, abstract = {Evans and Rauch (1999) have demonstrated that there is a strong relationship between the `Weberianness' of a national state's bureaucratic capacities and its record on economic growth. Using their data set and the best available data sets on the incidence of income poverty, this article investigates whether there is a relationship between a Weberian notion of effective bureaucratic capacities and the state's ability to reduce poverty. Using the same time frame as Evans and Rauch (1970--90) and analysing data for 29 developing and middle income countries, the article concludes that, in general, there does indeed seem to be a relationship between states with effective `Weberian' public institutions and their ability to reduce poverty. 10.1177/0038038507076620}, author = {Henderson, Jeffrey and Hulme, David and Jalilian, Hossein and Phillips, Richard}, citeulike-article-id = {3503060}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://soc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/41/3/515}, journal = {Sociology}, keywords = {cmoser, zadar}, month = {June}, number = {3}, pages = {515--532}, posted-at = {2008-11-11 10:37:48}, priority = {0}, title = {Bureaucratic Effects: `Weberian' State Agencies and Poverty Reduction}, url = {http://soc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/41/3/515}, volume = {41}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3503060 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3503060 N2 - Evans and Rauch (1999) have demonstrated that there is a strong relationship between the `Weberianness' of a national state's bureaucratic capacities and its record on economic growth. Using their data set and the best available data sets on the incidence of income poverty, this article investigates whether there is a relationship between a Weberian notion of effective bureaucratic capacities and the state's ability to reduce poverty. Using the same time frame as Evans and Rauch (1970--90) and analysing data for 29 developing and middle income countries, the article concludes that, in general, there does indeed seem to be a relationship between states with effective `Weberian' public institutions and their ability to reduce poverty. 10.1177/0038038507076620 IS - 3 JF - Sociology EP - 532 TI - Bureaucratic Effects: `Weberian' State Agencies and Poverty Reduction VL - 41 SP - 515 KW - cmoser KW - zadar AU - Henderson, Jeffrey AU - Hulme, David AU - Jalilian, Hossein AU - Phillips, Richard PY - 2007/06/01/ UR - http://soc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/41/3/515 ER -