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Wealth : crucial but not sufficient evidence from Pakistan on economic growth, child labor, and schooling

Hou, Xiaohui - 2009

"The relationship between wealth and child labor has been widely examined. This paper uses three rounds of time …-series, cross-sectional data to examine the relationship between wealth and child labor and schooling. The paper finds that wealth … enrollment for rural girls from 1998 to 2006. This increase is independent of wealth (measured by per capita expenditure …

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Expanding the measure of wealth : indicators of environmentally sustainable development

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Can risk averse competitive input providers serve farmers efficiently in developing countries ?

Makdissi, Paul - 2009

"Under price ceilings and quality floors for agricultural inputs in cash crop sectors in developing countries where credit markets are weak, imperfect information on the ability of farmers to pay for their inputs at the end of the cropping season may lead the decentralized production of those...

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Loss aversion and trade policy

Freund, Caroline L. - 2004

"Freund and Ozden provide new survey evidence showing that loss aversion and reference dependence are important in shaping people's perception of trade policy. Under the assumption that agents' welfare functions exhibit these behavioral elements, they analyze a model with a welfare-maximizing...

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Toward a Low-Carbon Economy : Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Review

World Bank - 2014

Renewable energy and energy efficiency projects continue to perform strongly in the World Bank Group (WBG) energy portfolio and are increasingly being mainstreamed in the WBG's energy lending. In fiscal 2007 a total of US$1,433 million supported 63 renewable energy and energy efficiency projects...

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Immunization

World Bank - 2012

Immunization deserves high priority, especially in developing countries, for three reasons: vaccine-preventable diseases, disproportionately affect the poorest fifth of the population; immunization is among the most cost-effective interventions, and has a major impact in reducing the burden of...

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Portfolio Limits : Pension Investment Restrictions Compromise Fund Performance

World Bank - 2012

The value of funded pensions can depend critically on the funds' investment performance. To try and protect people's savings, governments often regulate pension funds strictly, particularly when contributions are mandatory. For example, the new funded pension systems in Latin America and Eastern...

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Securing Water for Agriculture : A Guide to Investment Decisions

World Bank - 2012

How can the world grow more food, increase incomes, reduce poverty, and protect the environment with growing numbers of mouths to feed and increasingly constrained resources? A big part of the answer lies in better management of agricultural water. Agricultural water management (AWM) encompasses...

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Optimizing Investments in Moldova's HIV Response

World Bank - 2015

This report summarizes the findings of an Allocative efficiency analysis on Moldova`s national HIV epidemic and response conducted in 2014-15. The report addresses core questions for resource allocation such 'How can HIV funding be optimally allocated to the combination of HIV response...

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The current account as a dynamic portfolio choice problem

Didier, Tatiana - 2009

"The current account can be understood as the outcome of investment decisions made by domestic and foreign investors. These decisions can be decomposed into a portfolio rebalancing and a portfolio growth component. This paper provides empirical evidence of the importance of portfolio rebalancing...

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