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Learning by doing : World Bank lending for urban development ; 1972-82
Cohen, Michael A. - 1983 - 2. print
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An Evidence-Informed Response to Slum Settlements : A Learning Note
World Bank - 2013
This learning note prepares policymakers to engage with their technical experts and staff in designing and implementing an evidence-informed response to the challenges of existing and future slum settlements. To that end, the note discusses a set of indicators and data analysis techniques needed...
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Detecting Urban Clues for Road Safety : Leveraging Big Data and Machine Learning in World Bank Transport Projects
World Bank - 2021
Transportation services and infrastructure connect people, businesses, and places. They allow citizens to access opportunities, such as jobs, education, health services, recreation, and enable the movement and distribution of goods. As a result, transport services and infrastructure are key to...
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Generative Artificial Intelligence
World Bank - 2023
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been developing rapidly and has attracted significant attention in recent years, with numerous advances and breakthroughs. The generative AI market is expected to grow from 1.5 billion dollars in 2021 to 6.5 billion dollars by 2026 - a compound annual...
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Zooming in : from aggregate volatility to income distribution
Calderón, César - 2009
"In contrast with a growing literature on the drivers of aggregate volatility in developing countries, its consequences … aggregate volatility has a regressive, asymmetric, and non linear impact, as reflected in the strong influence of extreme output …
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Finance for growth : policy choices in a volatile world
Caprio, Gerard - 2001
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Finance for Growth : Policy Choices in a Volatile World
World Bank - 2013
, and can surge at times of currency speculation. Heightened interest rate and exchange rate volatility pose practical risk … through the equity markets have not been the major contributor to increased international sources of volatility. In addition …
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AIDS and dualism : Ethiopia's burden under rational expectations
Bell, Clive - 2009
intersectorally mobile labor, in which young adults allocate resources under rational expectations. They calibrate the model to the …
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Measuring subjective expectations in developing countries : a critical review and new evidence
Delavande, Adeline - 2009
"The majority of economic decisions taken by individuals are forward looking and thus involve their expectations of … future outcomes. Understanding the expectations that individuals have is thus of crucial importance to designing and … developing country surveys are static in nature and do not contain information on the subjective expectations of individuals …
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Learning-by-doing, learning-by-exporting, and productivity : evidence from Colombia
Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2005
"The empirical evidence on whether participation in export markets increases plant-level productivity has been inconclusive so far. The authors explain this inconclusiveness by drawing on Arrow's (1962) characterization of learning-by-doing, which suggests focusing on young plants and using...
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