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Guatemala : Expenditure Reform in a Post-Conflict Country
World Bank - 2013
This report is the third in a series of joint Government-World Bank reviews designed support Guatemala's peace process (See report nos. 15352 and 16392). As this report was under preparation in late 1998, Guatemala faced an emergency caused by Hurricane Mitch and increasing macroeconomic...
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Trade Therapy : Deepening Cooperation to Strengthen Pandemic Defenses
World Bank; World Trade Organization - 2022
This report provides new data on trade in medical goods and services and medical value chains; surveys the evolving policy landscape before and during the pandemic; and proposes an action plan to improve trade policies and deepen international cooperation to deal with future pandemics
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Trade and employment policies for industrial development
Marsden, Keith (contributor) - 1982
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Policies for industrial progress in developing countries
Cody, John (ed.); Hughes, Helen (contributor);  … - 1980
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The effect of male migration for work on employment patterns of females in Nepal
Lokshin, Michael - 2008
"This paper assesses the impact of work-related migration by males on the labor market behavior of females in Nepal. Using data from the 2004 Nepal household survey, the authors apply the Instrumental Variable Full Information Maximum Likelihood method to account for unobserved factors that...
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Openness, industrialization, and geographic concentration of activities in China
Catin, Maurice - 2005
"Rapid development, a widening regional gap, and growing concentration of activities have characterized the Chinese economy since the reforms in the late 1970s. This paper examines the spatial disparities of the economic concentration in different stages of development from a geographic approach...
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Development strategies in semi-industrial economies
Balassa, Béla A. (contributor) - 1984 - 1. paperback ed.
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Determinants of economic growth : a Bayesian panel data approach
Moral-Benito, Enrique - 2009
panel data models with country-specific fixed effects. The empirical results show that the most robust growth determinants …
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The return to firm investment in human capital
Carneiro, Pedro - 2006
training. They use a panel of large firms with unusually detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of …
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Poverty traps and nonlinear income dynamics with measurement error and individual heterogeneity
Antman, Francisca - 2005
. This paper shows how dynamic pseudo-panel methods can overcome these difficulties, allowing estimation of non-linear income … Mexico and are compared to panel data estimates from a short rotating panel. The results do find evidence of nonlinearities … in household income dynamics and demonstrate large bias in the panel data estimates. Nevertheless, even after allowing …
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