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Does tougher import competition foster product quality upgrading ?
Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2009
upgrading. The overall evidence points to the benefits of trade openness for product innovation but demonstrates at the same …
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Which doctor? : combining vignettes and item response to measure doctor quality
Das, Jishnu - 2004
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Land quality indicators
Pieri, Christian J. M. G. (contributor) - 1995
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Groundwater Quality : A Strategic Approach
World Bank - 2022
This policy brief highlights the key messages for policy makers from the World Bank report "Seeing the Invisible: A Strategic Report on Groundwater Quality" (Ravenscroft and Lytton 2022a). This report and “A Practical Manual on Groundwater Quality Monitoring" (Ravenscroft and Lytton 2022b)...
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EFA in Indonesia : Hard Lessons About Quality
World Bank - 2012
Indonesia has seen vast improvements in access to education over the past thirty years. It is a good example of a country that has followed a disciplined linear approach to EFA: Indonesia focused first on primary school access, next on lower secondary school access, and is only now attempting to...
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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 inter-disciplinary research on innovation by firms. The econometric …
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Black hole or black gold? : the impact of oil and gas prices on Indonesia's public finance
Agustina, Rosa (contributor) - 2008
"Indonesia's oil revenues and fuel subsidies dominate the nation's economic policy agenda. This paper estimates the impact of higher international oil prices on the Indonesian government's fiscal position in 2008 and beyond. It analyzes the interactions between government revenues and...
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The co-movement between cotton and polyester prices
Baffes, John - 2005
"The authors examine the price linkages among polyester (the dominant chemical fiber), cotton (the dominant natural fiber), and crude oil (the dominant energy commodity), based on monthly data between 1980 and 2002. The modeling framework incorporates several aspects of the unit root...
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The impact of coffee market reforms on producer prices and price transmission
Krivonos, Ekaterina - 2004
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Carbon Pricing Watch 2015
World Bank - 2015
Significant progress in carbon pricing has been made over the last ten years. In 2015, about 40 national and over 20 subnational jurisdictions, representing almost a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), are putting a price on carbon. Together, the carbon pricing instruments in these...
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