TY  - BOOK
AU  - Araujo,M.Caridad
ED  - World Bank.
TI  - Local inequality and project choice: theory and evidence from Ecuador 
T2  - Policy research working paper
AV  - HG3881.5.W57 
U1  - 332.67252 
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - [Washington, D.C.
PB  - World Bank
KW  - Public investments
KW  - Ecuador
KW  - Infrastructure (Economics)
KW  - Income distribution
N1  - Title from PDF file as viewed on 9/6/2006; Includes bibliographical references; Also available in print
N2  - "This paper provides evidence consistent with elite capture of Social Fund investment projects in Ecuador.  Exploiting a unique combination of data-sets on village-level income distributions, Social Fund project administration, and province level electoral results, the authors test a simple model of project choice when local political power is unequally distributed.  In accordance with the predictions of the model, poorer villages are more likely to receive projects that provide excludable (private) goods to the poor, such as latrines.  Controlling for poverty, more unequal communities are less likely to receive such projects.  Consistent with the hypothesis of elite capture, these results are sensitive to the specific measure of inequality used in the empirical analysis, and are strongest for expenditure shares at the top of the distribution. "--World Bank web site
ER  -