There is frequent public and media concern over the cost of bloated cabinets in many Sub-Saharan African countries. Scholarship on elite clientelism links cabinet positions with corruption and practices that undermine sound policy making. This paper presents new data on the number of ministers in African governments and shows a negative association with several measures of governance. The associations are robust in a regression framework that exploits...
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2020/05/06
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS9232
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2020/05/06
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Disclosed
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Cabinet Size and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
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corruption