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On the utility consistency of poverty lines

Lokshin, Michael - 2003

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Greco-Roman lessons for public debt management and debt market development

Vittas, Dimitri - 2004

"Greece and Italy initiated efforts to improve public debt management and develop their domestic debt markets …

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Greek Logistics : Unlocking Growth Potential through Regulatory Reform and Complementary Measures

World Bank - 2014

logistics sector in Greece and to develop policy recommendations. The World Bank is carrying out the project at the request of … a technical assistance package provided by the World Bank Group to the Government of Greece on enhancing the business … environment and trade logistics. The package has been facilitated by the Task Force for Greece (TFGR, an arm of the European …

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Greece - Learning Poverty Brief, 2022

World Bank - 2022

All children should be able to read by age 10. Reading is a gateway for learning as the child progresses through school - and conversely, an inability to read constrains opportunities for further learning. Reading proficiency is also critical for foundational learning in other subjects. In low-...

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The business of product innovation : international empirical evidence

Lederman, Daniel - 2009

"It is so widely recognized that innovation is a key driver of economic growth that it is cliche to say so. This article studies product innovation by firms with data from 68 countries, covering more than 25,000 firms in eight manufacturing sectors. The author assesses the predictions of...

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Natural disasters and human capital accumulation

Crespo-Cuaresma, Jesús - 2009

"The author assesses empirically the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education. Although the results in the empirical literature tend to be inconclusive, using model averaging methods in the framework of cross-country and panel regressions, this paper finds an...

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Natural disasters and the dynamics of intangible assets

López, Ramón - 2009

"Empirical evidence suggests that the higher-order effects of natural disasters, which affect intangible assets, may be even more important than the material inter-industry effects. However, most existing general equilibrium models ignore higher order effects concerning human capital. Moreover,...

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Estimates of government net capital stocks for 26 developing countries, 1970-2002

Hurlin, Christophe - 2006

"The authors provide various estimates of the government net capital stocks for a panel of 26 developing countries over the period 1970-2001. Two kinds of internationally comparable series of public capital stocks are presented. The first estimates are based on the standard perpetual inventory...

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Cross-country empirical studies of systemic bank distress : a survey

Demirguç-Kunt, Asli - 2005

"A rapidly growing empirical literature is studying the causes and consequences of bank fragility in contemporary economies. The authors reviews the two basic methodologies adopted in cross-country empirical studies-the signals approach and the multivariate probability model-and their...

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Insurance and liquidity : panel evidence

Shankar, Rashmi - 2005

"The author presents evidence that balance sheet effects are critical determinants of both the likelihood of a crisis and of income losses following a crisis. She tests the validity of "insurance" and "liquidity" models of currency crisis. Both models predict that the occurrence of a balance of...

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