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employment and earnings as a linkage between growth and poverty reduction, especially in low income countries. With the objective … of providing inputs into the policy discussion on how to enhance poverty reduction through increased employment and …
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"The author analyzes regional labor market disparities in transition by presenting some data and summarizing existing literature. He finds that large and persistent regional labor market disparities developed in virtually all transition countries and that there is some evidence of polarization....
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workers lived in apparently economically stagnant municipios where real wages declined but employment increased faster than … wage growth and faster-than-average employment growth. These areas absorbed more than half of net employment growth over … wage and employment changes of Brazilian municipios. They use Conley's spatial GMM technique to allow for instrumental …
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The past two decades have witnessed a fundamental transformation in the structure of government across East Asia. Prior to 1990 most East Asian countries were highly centralized; today, decentralization is ubiquitous throughout the region. From China to Thailand, sub-national governments are now...
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This report, which is a product of the World Bank's Recurso program - reviews Peru's recent advances in health sector policy and performance and discusses upcoming challenges. Using the 'accountability triangle' approach developed in the 2004 World Development Report (WDR 2004), it focuses on...
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sector employment, sample earnings data, and short profiles of individual health workers interviewed by the team. Readers who …
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