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selection, and will contribute to client decision-making. The goal of the study was to fully explore the use of the United … States Environmental Protection Agency and the Research Triangle Institute (EPA/RTI) holistic decision model to study …
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Gender equality is important for development - it mattersnot only for women and girls, and boys and men but also for communities and societies - for povertyreduction and economic growth. This assessment report provides an in-depth description of the gaps between women and men in Benin regarding...
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"Model uncertainty hampers consensus on the key determinants of economic growth. Some recent cross-country, cross-sectional analyses have employed Bayesian Model Averaging to address the issue of model uncertainty. This paper extends that approach to panel data models with country-specific fixed...
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"This paper examines the implications of bank activity and short-term funding strategies for bank risk and returns …-interest income generating activities such as trading increases the rate of return on assets, and it may offer some risk …, although it can offer some risk reduction at commonly observed low levels of non-deposit funding. A sizeable proportion of …
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"The most basic argument for insurance is that it reduces financial risk. But since insurance opens up new … patient, it is not immediately obvious that insurance will in practice reduce financial risk. The authors analyze the effect …'s own per capita income. The estimates of the effect of insurance on financial risk allow for the possible endogeneity of …
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, they also extend previous work by assessing the extent of risk protection afforded by formal health insurance, and by …
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