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Loevinsohn, Benjamin - 2008

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Best Practice in Labor-Based Contracting in the Road Sector

World Bank - 2012

This program trained contractors in labor-based methods in the local road contracting industry in Ghana in order to produce gravel roads of equal quality to equipment-based methods, and generate rural employment in a cost-effective manner. The program was initiated as a component of the World...

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A Lesson in Trust Yields Big Rewards in Panama Procurement : $20 Million Saved in One Contract in 2009 Alone

World Bank - 2012

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Investment Contracts for Agriculture

World Bank - 2015

approach to achieving this namely, carefully devised contracts with investors, and in doing so offers a number of concrete … solutions. This paper marries two substantial bodies of research to show how investment contracts can be set up to promote … downsides through better drafting of contracts between investors and governments for the lease of farmland. This derived from …

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Renegotiation of concession contracts in Latin America

Guasch, José Luis - 2003

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Costed Plan for Scaling Up Nutrition: Nigeria

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2014

This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten...

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Poverty & human development

Isenman, Paul J. (contributor) - 1982

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Human Capital for More Jobs

World Bank - 2025

This note discusses how human capital is a job connector and driver of entrepreneurship. It first presents ideas on how to unlock the barriers to accessing productive employment, with particular attention to the challenges facing women and youth. It then discusses human capital as a job creator,...

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Public finance, security, and development : a framework and an application to Afghanistan

Byrd, William Anderson - 2009

"Security is increasingly viewed as a key condition for economic growth and development. The authors argue that the work and impact of all development partners would be enhanced if the multiple linkages between public finance, security, and development were explicitly taken into account. At the...

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The impact of EU accession on human capital formation : can migration fuel a brain gain?

Farchy, Emily - 2009

"Can a brain drain be good for development? Many studies have established the theoretical possibility of such a brain gain. Yet it is only recently that the relaxation of data constraints has allowed for sound empirical assessments. In utilizing the dramatic policy change that accompanied...

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