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AIDS and dualism : Ethiopia's burden under rational expectations

Bell, Clive - 2009

"An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to capital formation and economic growth. The authors develop a two-sector model with three overlapping generations and intersectorally mobile labor, in which young adults...

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Simulating the poverty impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies

Essama-Nssah, Boniface - 2005

"Developing countries face a host of macroeconomic challenges in the design and implementation of development strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable ways of tracking the social impact of shocks and...

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Policy options for meeting the millennium development goals in Brazil : can micro-simulations help?

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2003

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Alternative development strategies of Korea (1976-1990) in an input-output dynamic simulation model

Gupta, Syamaprasad P. - 1977

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Learning from Disaster Simulation Drills in Japan

World Bank - 2017

emergency response, recovery, and rehabilitation. This report consists of four parts: Introduction (Chapter 1, 2, 3), Simulation … Disaster Management in Japan (Chapter 2), followed by an overview of disaster simulation drills in Japan, particularly focusing … governments (Chapter 3). The following four chapters present examples of simulation drills organized at the national and regional …

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Modeling Pension Reform : The World Bank's Pension Reform Options Simulation Toolkit

World Bank - 2012

and the maturing of pension schemes. The World Bank's pension reform options simulation toolkit (PROST) models pension …

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Climate Warehouse Simulation III, Final Report - September 2022

World Bank - 2022

currently complicated by carbon registries' usage of different data management systems and taxonomies. Simulation III was the … final testing phase of the Climate Warehouse project. Launched in March 2022, Simulation III tested an operational prototype … the simulation in August 2022. The Simulation III prototype had an updated data model and features that reflected the …

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Development as leadership-led change : a report for the Global Leadership Initiative

Andrews, Matt - 2010

Development involves change, but many development initiatives produce unimpressive results. The authors ask why and consider how to close the gap between the intended change and what we actually see in the evidence. This paper presents the findings of a study, initiated by the multi-donor Global...

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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes : cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies

Mitra, Pradeep - 2009

"This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...

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Do reorganization costs matter for efficiency? : evidence from a bankruptcy reform in Colombia

Gine, Xavier - 2006

"The authors study the effect of reorganization costs on the efficiency of bankruptcy laws. They develop a simple model that predicts that in a regime with high costs, the law fails to achieve the efficient outcome of liquidating unviable businesses and reorganizing viable ones. The authors test...

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