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Household financial assets in the process of development
Honohan, Patrick - 2006
"Systematic information on household financial asset holdings in developing countries is very sparse. The author reviews some available data and current policy debates. Although financial asset holdings by households are highly concentrated, deeper financial systems are correlated with improved...
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Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2004 : Accelerating Development (Bangalore conference proceedings)
2004
The Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) is one of the world's best known series of conferences for … Economics (ABCDE), the volume imparts new research findings and discussions on key policy issues related to poverty reduction by … Institute of Technology; T. N. Srinivasan, of Yale University; and Anthony Venables of the London School of Economics. The …
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World Development Report 1991 : The Challenge of Development
1991
This report is the fourteenth in an annual series assessing major development issues. This report synthesizes and interprets the lessons of more than forty years of development experience. Together with last year's report on poverty and next year's on the environment, it seeks to provide a...
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World Development Report 1991 : The Challenge of Development
World Bank - 2012
This report is the fourteenth in an annual series assessing major development issues. This report synthesizes and interprets the lessons of more than forty years of development experience. Together with last year's report on poverty and next year's on the environment, it seeks to provide a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552109
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Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics Regional 2007 : beyond transition
Bourguignon, François (contributor);  … - Bank Conference on Development Economics - 2007
This annual conference is a global gathering of the world's leading scholars and practitioners. Among the attendees are participants from developing countries, think tanks, NGOs, and international institutions. The papers included in this book concern issues such as:-inequality and growth in...
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The World Bank Research Observer 16(2)
World Bank - 2001
Counting the world's poor: problems and possible solutions; by Angus Deaton. Comments on "counting the world's poor"; by Martin Ravallion, and T. N. Srinivasan. Ecology, history, and development : a perspective from rural Southeast Asia; by Yujiro Hayami. Productivity growth and sustainability in...
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The World Bank Research Observer 15(1)
World Bank - 2013
Crisis, adjustment, and reform in Thailand's industrial firms; by David Dollar and Mary Hallward-Driemeier. Corporate performance in the East Asian financial crisis; by Stijn Claessens, Simeon Djankov, and Lixin Colin Xu. Industrial policy : growth elixir or poison?; by Howard Pack. Financial...
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The developing world's bulging (but vulnerable) "middle class"
Ravallion, Martin - 2009
"The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line of developing countries, but are still poor by US standards. The "Western middle class" is defined as those who are not poor by US standards. Although barely 80 million people...
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