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Why Do Some Countries Spend More for Health? An Assessment of Sociopolitical Determinants and International Aid for Government Health Expenditures
Liang, Li-Lin; Mirelman, Andrew J - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
when the government is more stable. Corruption is associated with less spending in developing countries, but with more … corruption are fundamental to improving the capacity of developing countries to scale up GHE, and to increasing the efficiency of … stronger monitoring mechanisms for corruption. Delivering aid through NGOs may be an option in countries with high ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010829325
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Cyclical Patterns in Government Health Expenditures Between 1995 and 2010
Velenyi, Edit V.; Smitz, Marc F. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
The 2008-09 global economic crises have shown that no country is immune to external challenges. When policy controls are missing or not used efficiently, crises can reverse progress even in advanced economies. This unexpected outcome has increased concerns about the ability of governments in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010829327
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Political Institutions and Human Development Does Democracy Fulfill its 'Constructive' and 'Instrumental' Role?
Vollmer, Sebastian; Ziegler, Maria - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
performance of democracy is rather independent of the circumstances. However, democracy leads to more redistribution in favor of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005116471
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MACRO-MICRO FEEDBACK LINKS OF IRRIGATION WATER MANAGEMENT IN TURKEY
Cakmak, Erol H.; Dudu, Hasan; Saracoglu, Sirin; Diao, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008
Agricultural production is heavily dependent on water availability in Turkey, where half the crop production relies on … availability. This study analyzes the likely effects of increased competition for water resources and changes in the Turkish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005057614
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Village political economy, land tenure insecurity, and the rural to urban migration decision : evidence from China
Giles, John; Mu, Ren - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A simple model first frames the relationship among these variables and the probability that a reallocation of land will occur in the following year. After first demonstrating that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942750
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Some simple analytics of trade and labor mobility
Artuc, Erhan; Chaudhuri, Shubham; McLaren, John - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
there what this paper calls"anticipation rents."By this process, pre-announcement makes liberalization less attractive to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944689
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Opening the Black Box
Grandvoinnet, Helene; Aslam, Ghazia; Raha, Shomikho - Economics Research, World Bank Group
, Pakistan, Yemen, and the Kyrgyz Republic. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262712
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Human capital, trade liberalization, and income risk
Krebs, Tom; Krishna, Pravin; Maloney, William - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2007
Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the extent to which this varies across workers of different human capital (education) levels. They use longitudinal income data on workers to estimate time-varying individual income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079847
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Emerging market fluctuations : what makes the difference ?
Hevia, Constantino - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
Aggregate fluctuations in emerging countries are quantitatively larger and qualitatively different in key respects from those in developed countries. Using data from Mexico and Canada, this paper decomposes these differences in terms of shocks to aggregate efficiency and shocks that distort the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079872
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Rising growth, declining investment : the puzzle of the Philippines
Magnoli Bocchi, Alessandro - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008
The economy of the Philippines is open to trade and capital inflows, and has grown rapidly since 2002. Over the last 10 years, however, domestic investment, while stagnant in real terms, has shrunk as a share of GDP. In an open and growing economy, why the decline? Three reasons explain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079941