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Survey nonresponse and the distribution of income
Korinek, Anton - 2005
"The authors examine the distributional implications of selective compliance in sample surveys, whereby households with different incomes are not equally likely to participate. They discuss poverty and inequality measurement implications for monotonically decreasing and inverted-U...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522656
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Workers' remittances to developing countries : a survey with central banks on selected public policy issues
Luna-Martinez, Jose de - 2005
"This paper presents the findings of a survey conducted by the World Bank of central banks in 40 developing countries across different regions in the world. The survey focused on the following topics: (1) coverage of national statistics on remittances, (2) cost of transferring and delivering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522562
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Using rapid city surveys to inform municipal social policy : an application in Cali, Colombia
Hentschel, Jesko - 2004
"Many developing countries assign local governments increasing responsibilities in fighting poverty. This requires local social policy to go beyond the execution of centrally designed and funded education and health programs. Hence, local governments and their partners have both an opportunity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522965
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Solomon Islands High Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19 : Results from Round Two - Data Collection: December 2020 - January 2021, and April 2021
UNICEF; World Bank - 2022
This report presents the findings of the second of five planned rounds of mobilephone surveys, as well as the results of a companion survey funded by UNICEF. Thefirst World Bank High Frequency Phone Survey (HFPS) in Solomon Islands on thesocioeconomic implications of the coronavirus pandemic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255019
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Papua New Guinea High Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19 : Data Collection - May-July 2021
UNICEF; United Nations; World Bank - 2021
trust and security. However, there was some variation across regions and wealth quintiles. The lack of deterioration of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255132
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Inside inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt : facts and perceptions across people, time, and space
Verme, Paolo - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394002
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394125
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394134
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Natural disasters and human capital accumulation
Crespo-Cuaresma, Jesús - 2009
"The author assesses empirically the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education. Although the results in the empirical literature tend to be inconclusive, using model averaging methods in the framework of cross-country and panel regressions, this paper finds an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394156
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Natural disasters and the dynamics of intangible assets
López, Ramón - 2009
"Empirical evidence suggests that the higher-order effects of natural disasters, which affect intangible assets, may be even more important than the material inter-industry effects. However, most existing general equilibrium models ignore higher order effects concerning human capital. Moreover,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394168