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Health Care in Sri Lanka : What Can the Private Health Sector Offer?

Govindaraj, Ramesh; Navaratne, Kumari; Cavagnero, Eleonora - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

This review represents an attempt to bridge the significant knowledge gaps on the private health sector in Sri Lanka, and foster a dialogue on opportunities for collaboration between the government and the private sector. It accomplishes this through a systematic collection and analysis of...

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Determinants of Economic Growth: A Bayesian Panel Data Approach

Moral-Benito, Enrique - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

Model uncertainty hampers consensus on the key determinants of economic growth. Some recent cross-country, cross-sectional analyses have employed Bayesian Model Averaging to address the issue of model uncertainty. This paper extends that approach to panel data models with country-specific fixed...

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The financial turmoil of 2007-?: a preliminary assessment and some policy considerations

Borio, Claudio - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2008

reinforcing steps in three areas: accounting, disclosure and risk management; the architecture of prudential regulation; and …

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PURSUING EFFICIENCY WHILE MAINTAINING OUTREACH: BANK PRIVATIZATION IN TANZANIA

Cull, Robert; P. Spreng, Connor - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

Profitability improvements after the privatization of a large state-owned bank might come at the expense of reduced access to financial services for some groups, especially the rural poor. The privatization of Tanzania's National Bank of Commerce provides a unique episode for studying this...

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Main Drivers of Income Inequality in Central European and Baltic Countries: Some Insights from Recent Household Survey Data

Zaidi, Salman - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

Present levels of income inequality in Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia remain considerably higher than their pre-transition levels, although the relative pace of change over time has varied quite a bit across countries. Using data from the 2006...

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Modeling Services Liberalization: The Case of Tanzania

Jensen, Jesper; F. Rutherford, F. Rutherford , Thomas; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

This paper employs a 52-sector, small, open-economy computable general equilibrium model of the Tanzanian economy to assess the impact of the liberalization of regulatory barriers against foreign and domestic business service providers in Tanzania. The model incorporates productivity effects in...

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The Political Economy of Village Sanitation in South India: Capture or Poor Information?

Ban, Radu; Das Gupta, Monica; Rao, Vijayendra - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

Despite efforts to mandate and finance local governments' provision of environmental sanitation services, outcomes remain poor in the villages surveyed in the four South Indian states. The analysis indicates some key issues that appear to hinder improvements in sanitation. Local politicians tend...

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Risk in financial reporting: status, challenges and suggested directions

Borio, Claudio E. V.; Tsatsaronis, Kostas - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2006

differences in perspective between accounting standard setters and prudential authorities. Building on previous work, we argue … could act as more of a focal point in the design of accounting standards, as greater consistency between sound risk … management practices and accounting standards can help to narrow the wedge between accounting and underlying economic valuations. …

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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies

Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...

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Accounting, prudential regulation and financial stability: elements of a synthesis

Borio, Claudio E. V.; Tsatsaronis, Kostas - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2005

regards micro information, significant differences in perspective between accounting standard setters and prudential … accounting standard setters and supervisory authorities is called for both in developing the final set of information and in …

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