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Increasing formality and productivity of Bolivian firms
2009
informal, and the impact of normalization on their profitability. The analysis finds that the impact of tax registration on … profitability depends on firm size and the ability to issue tax receipts, and presents a set of prioritized policy implications for … small firms. Measures to boost the productivity of micro and small firms in general will both help overall economic growth …
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Increasing Formality and Productivity of Bolivian Firms
World Bank - 2012
low productivity, low growth, and low quality of jobs. This study presents fresh qualitative and quantitative analyses to … better understand the reasons why firms are informal and the impact of formalization on their profitability, in order to … registration on profitability depends on firm size and the ability to issue tax receipts. The smallest and the largest firms in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561229
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Vietnam : Reading and Mathematics Assessment Study, Volume 1. How Measuring Achievement Distribution Informs Education Policy Development
World Bank - 2013
This paper contains three volumes presenting the Vietnam Reading and Mathematics Assessment Study conducted in 2001. The first volume sets the study in its country context, describes its genesis, outlines the methodology, and summarizes the results. The main purpose is to show how the analysis...
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Financial Sector Assessment Program Update : Republic of Kazakhstan - Bank Profitability and Competition
World Bank - 2013
costs and provisioning for loan losses remain high compared to some other economies. Profitability of the aggregate banking …
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Measuring health as a component of living standards
Ho, Teresa J. - 1982
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Measuring skilled migration rates : the case of small states
Docquier, Frédéric - 2009
"Recent changes in information and communication technologies have contributed to a dramatic increase in the degree of integration and interdependency of countries, markets, and people. Against this background, one aspect of particular concern for small states is the international movement of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394121
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On defining and measuring the informal sector
Arabsheibani, G. Reza - 2006
"A range of alternative empirical definitions of informal activity have been employed in the literature. Choice of definition is often dictated by data availability. Different definitions may imply very different conceptual understandings of informality. In this paper the authors investigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522194
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On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world
Ravallion, Martin - 2005
"Recent literature and new data help determine plausible bounds to some key demographic differences between the poor and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522620
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Analyzing urban poverty : a summary of methods and approaches
Baker, Judy - 2004
"In recent years an extensive body of literature has emerged on the definition, measurement, and analysis of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522935
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Estimating individual vulnerability to poverty with pseudo-panel data
Bourguignon, François - 2004
larger effort in the vice presidency to improve measurement of vulnerability to poverty"--World Bank web site …
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