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Zambia - Impact Assessment of the Fertilizer Support Program : Analysis of Effectiveness and Efficiency
World Bank - 2012
This research report examines the technical efficiency and impact of the Zambia Fertilizer Support Program (FSP). The … hybrid maize seed and fertilizer packages to smallholder farmers and to promote the participation of private traders in …
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Seeding Fertile Ground : Education that Works for Bangladesh
World Bank - 2014
Bangladesh is recognized globally for its achievements and potential, despite a number of difficult challenges. Given the sustained economic growth over the last three decades, Bangladesh is identified as one of the next eleven emerging economies in the world. The country is at a crossroads...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560652
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Exports, Export Destinations, and Skills
World Bank - 2013
This paper explores the links between exports, export destinations and skill utilization by firms. The authors identify two mechanisms behind these links, which we integrate into a unified theory of export destinations and skills. First, exporting to high-income countries requires quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557624
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Market power and the matching of trade credit terms
Fabbri, Daniele - 2008
"This paper studies the decision of firms to extend trade credit to customers and its relation with their financing decisions. The authors use a novel firm-level database of Chinese SMEs with unique information on market power in both output and input markets and on the amount, terms, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521005
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Managing unilateral market power in electricity
Wolak, Frank A. - 2005
"This paper first describes those features of the electricity supply industry that make a prospective market monitoring process essential to a well-functioning wholesale market. Some of these features are shared with the securities industry, although the technology of electricity production and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522509
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Do incumbents manipulate access to finance during banking crises?
Feijen, Erik - 2005
"The author tests the hypothesis that during systemic banking crises, access to finance is opportunistically tightened by incumbents to eliminate or weaken competition from mainly young firms. He finds this to be especially true in more corrupt countries. To do so, he uses a methodology similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522540
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Introduction and summary to the handbook of trade policy and WTO accession for development in Russia and the CIS
Tarr, David - 2005
Accession for Development in Russia and the CIS. The key policy conclusions of each of the chapters are highlighted in this … described here is available on the website www.worldbank.org/trade/russia-wto. This paper first explains the potential … first part treats trade policy (with applications to Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States [CIS]). The second …
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The impact on Russia of WTO accession and the DOHA agenda : the importance of liberalization of barriers against foreign direct investment in services for growth and poverty reduct...
Rutherford, Thomas Fox - 2005
households gaining. They find that global free trade would result in a weighted average gain to households in Russia of 0 … of 0.2 percent of consumption). Russia, as a net food importer, loses from subsidy elimination, and the gains to Russia … from tariff cuts in other countries are too small to offset these losses. The results strongly support the view that Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522475
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Searching for the economic gradient in self-assessed health
Lokshin, Michael - 2005
"Can self-assessed health be relied on to identify the true socioeconomic gradients in health status? The self-assessed health of Russian adults in 2002 shows remarkably little gradient with respect to economic welfare. The authors document this finding and assess its robustness to the...
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