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Making Services Work for Poor People : The Role of Participatory Public Expenditure Management (PPEM)
World Bank - 2012
infrastructure, absenteeism of service providers like teachers and doctors, poor quality of services, corruption, non-transparency … outcomes reflects more serious deficiencies of 'voice' and 'accountability' for citizens in general, and the poor in particular …
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Enabling Environments for Civic Engagement in PRSP Countries
World Bank - 2012
potential in alleviating poverty and promoting social accountability, and what types of laws, regulations, governance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012556414
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Uruguay : Strengthening Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation of Social Policy
World Bank - 2013
The Uruguay Non-lending Technical Assistance (UY NLTA) for Uruguay was undertaken at the request of the Government of Uruguay's Ministry of Social Development (MIDES). Following a devastating financial and macroeconomic crisis in 2002, MIDES was established with a view to coordinating social...
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Globalization, growth, and poverty : building an inclusive world economy
Dollar, David (contributor); Collier, Paul (contributor) - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523873
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Globalization, growth, and poverty : building an inclusive world economy
Collier, Paul (contributor); Dollar, David (contributor) - 2002
Globalisation is already a powerful force for poverty reduction as societies and economies around the world are becoming more integrated. Although this international integration presents considerable opportunities for developing countries, it also contains significant risks. Associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479557
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Globalization, Growth, and Poverty : Building an Inclusive World Economy
World Bank - 2013
Societies and economies around the world are becoming more integrated. Integration is the result of reduced costs of transport, lower trade barriers, faster communication of ideas, rising capital flows, and intensifying pressures for mitigation. Integration--or "globalization"--has generated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012563619
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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010
innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal … collectivism, in line with recent advances in biology and neuro-science. The effect of culture on long-run growth remains very …
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National Cultures and Soccer Violence
Miguel, Edward - 2008
Can some acts of violence be explained by a society's "culture"? Scholars have found it hard to empirically disentangle … the effects of culture, legal institutions, and poverty in driving violence. We address this problem by exploiting a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464681
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Culture, Openness, and Finance
Stulz, Rene M. - 2001
Religions have little to say about shareholders but have much to say about creditors. We find that the origin of a country's legal system is more important than its religion and language in explaining shareholder rights. However, a country's principal religion helps predict the cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470502
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Ancestry, Language and Culture
Spolaore, Enrico - 2015
We explore the interrelationships between various measures of cultural distance. We first discuss measures of genetic distance, used in the recent economics literature to capture the degree of relatedness between countries. We next describe several classes of measures of linguistic, religious,...
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