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"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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The report is the third in a series of reports that evolved from a collaboration between the local government of the City of Johannesburg, and the World Bank in 1999-2000 on the theme of local economic development. It presents the main findings of the 1999 World Bank informal sector survey,...
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performance. Concentrated private ownership has a stronger positive effect on performance than dispersed ownership in the post … collective ownership does not have a negative effect. In the post-communist economies new firms are equally or more efficient … private ownership, corporate governance, access to know-how and markets, and the legal and institutional system matter for …
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"Ownership and control over assets such as land and housing provide direct and indirect benefits to individuals and … the gender dimensions of asset ownership. This paper sets out a framework for researchers who are interested in collecting … data on individual level asset ownership and analyzing the gender asset gap. It reviews best practices in existing surveys …
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of Serbia to examine the relationship between productivity, the investment climate, and private ownership of firms. As …. Identification of the relative effects of various investment climate constraints and ownership on productivity should serve as a … guide for such prioritization. Although ownership has recently received less attention in policy decisions than before …
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"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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This note examines the implications of digital innovation for market structure and attendant policies, including financial and competition regulation. There have been several surveys of regulatory responses. This note takes a step back, to look at what the economic theory of banking and...
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. The study has an analytical approach to model market structure, together with ownership and regulation, controlling for …
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