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Sources of Welfare Disparities across and within Regions of Brazil: Evidence from the 2002-03 Household Budget Survey

Skoufias, Emmanuel; Katayama, Roy - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household …

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Banking in Brazil: Structure, Performance, Drivers, and Policy Implications

Urdapilleta, Eduardo; Stephanou, Constantinos - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

he objective of this paper is to analyze the industry structure of banking services in Brazil in order to shed light on …

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Can islands of effectiveness thrive in difficult governance settings ? the political economy of local-level collaborative governance

Levy, Brian - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011

Many low-income countries contend with a governance syndrome characterized by a difficult combination of seeming openness, weak institutions, and strong inter-elite contestation for power and resources. In such countries, neither broad-based policy nor public management reforms are likely to be...

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The worldwide governance indicators : methodology and analytical issues

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2010

This paper summarizes the methodology of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project, and related analytical issues. The WGI cover over 200 countries and territories, measuring six dimensions of governance starting in 1996: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of...

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Fungibility of Donor Assistance to Liberia: Focusing on Aid to the Health Sector, a case study

Fairbank, Alan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

The main purpose of this work is to develop a case study assessing the recent patterns and impacts of ODA (official development assistance) and DAH (development assistance for health) to Liberia on overall government spending and domestic revenue generation as well as domestic government health...

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Contracting for Primary Health Care in Brazil: The Cases of Bahia and Rio de Janeiro

Araujo, Edson; Cavalini, Luciana; Girardi, Sabado; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

This study presents two case studies, each on a current initiative of contracting for primary health services in Brazil …, initially by providing a background to universal primary health care in Brazil, paying particular attention to the family health … strategy, the driver of the basic health care model. It then outlines the history of contracting for health care within Brazil …

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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...

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Health in All Policies as a Strategic Policy Response to NCDs

Lin, Vivian; Jones, Catherine; Wang, Shiyong; Barbd, Enis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

The aim of Health in All Policies (HiAP) is to bring diverse sectors together to find shared solutions; it focuses on identifying 'win-win' or 'cobenefits' such that policy measures contribute not only to improved health outcomes but also to outcomes desired by other sectors, such as education,...

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Governance matters VIII : aggregate and individual governance indicators 1996-2008

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

This paper reports on the 2009 update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2008: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism,...

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Citizen-centric governance indicators : measuring and monitoring governance by listening to the people and not the interest groups

Ivanyna, Maksym; Shah, Anwar - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2010

Governance indicators are now widely used as tools for conducting development dialogue, allocating external assistance, and influencing foreign direct investment. This paper argues that available governance indicators are not suitable for these purposes as they do not conceptualize governance...

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