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Morissette, Rene; Zhang, Xuelin; Drolet, Marie - EconWPA - 2004

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Asset measurement in the costing of government services

EconWPA; Steering Committee for the Review of … - 2001

Differences in asset measurement techniques can have a major impact on reported capital costs. Their influence on total unit cost depends on the importance of capital costs as a proportion of total costs for the particular service area being studied. In the areas of corrective services, police...

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Stubbs, Eric; Gupta, Francis - EconWPA - 2003

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Shocks, Sensitivity and Resilience: Tracking the Economic Impacts of Environmental Disaster on Assets in Ethiopia and Honduras

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Droughts, hurricanes and other environmental shocks punctuate the lives of poor and vulnerable populations in many parts of the world. The direct impacts can be horrific, but what are the longer-term effects of such shocks on households and their livelihoods? Under what circumstances, and for...

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Corruption, Governance and Security: Challenges for the Rich Countries and the World

Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2004

measurement in conventional (illegal) corruption indicators. It is found that manifestations of legal corruption may be more …

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Análisis y medición de las interacciones en los Sistemas Regionales de Innovación. Su relación con la trayectoria histórica y tecnológica de las regiones.

Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel Zabala - EconWPA - 2005

La conceptualización de los Sistemas Regionales de Innovación (Cooke y Morgan, 1993; Autio et al., 2004) puede ser considerada como una extensión y/o adaptación del concepto de los Sistemas Nacionales de Innovación surgidos a partir de los trabajos de Freeman (1987), Nelson (ed., 1993) y...

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The Water Poverty Index: an International Comparison

Lawrence, Peter; Meigh, Jeremy; Sullivan, Caroline - EconWPA - 2002

This paper reports on the construction of an International Water Poverty Index, part of the first phase of a research project into building a locally based version of the index. The purpose of the Water Poverty Index is to express an interdisciplinary measure which links household welfare with...

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Governance Matters III: Governance Indicators for 1996-2002

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - EconWPA - 2003

periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions … construct six aggregate governance indicators in each of the four periods. We present the point estimates of the dimensions of … governance as well as the margins of errors for each country for the four periods. The governance indicators reported here are an …

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Leading Indicators of German Business Cycles: An Assessment of Properties

Fritsche, Ulrich; Stephan, Sabine - EconWPA - 2000

used frequency domain analysis, different Granger-causality tests and out-of sample forecasts. Only few indicators passed …

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Sustained Macroeconomic Reforms, Tepid Growth: A Governance Puzzle in Bolivia?

Kaufmann, Daniel; Mastruzzi, Massimo; Zavaleta, Diego - EconWPA - 2003

comparability, we also utilize cross-country governance indicators. …

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