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Crime and Violence in Central America : A Development Challenge - Main Report

World Bank - 2012

Crime and violence are now a key development issue for Central American countries. In three nations El Salvador …, Guatemala, and Honduras crime rates are among the top five in Latin America. This report argues that successful strategies … future options. In addition, the design of national crime reduction plans and the establishment of national cross …

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Crime and Violence in Central America : A Development Challenge - Executive Summary

World Bank - 2012

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Making Brazilians Safer : Aanalyzing the Dynamics of Violent Crime

World Bank - 2013

This report analyzes the dynamics of violent crime in Brazil. What factors are driving the overall crime decline in … Brazil? Why is violent crime declining in some states while it is increasing in others? What types of interventions could … bring crime down during the past 10 years is crucial to tackling the challenges posed by the new decade. The purpose of this …

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How can donors help build global public goods in health ?

Das Gupta, Monica - 2009

"Aid to developing countries has largely neglected the population-wide health services that are core to communicable disease control in the developed world. These mostly non-clinical services generate "pure public goods" by reducing everyone's exposure to disease through measures such as...

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What are public services worth, and to whom? : non-parametric estimation of capitalization in Pune

Lall, Somik V. - 2006

"The availability and quality of basic public services are important determinants of urban quality of life. In many cities, rapid population growth and fiscal constraints are limiting the extent to which urban governments can keep up with increasing demand for these services. It therefore...

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The use of willingness to pay experiments : estimating demand for piped water connections in Sri Lanka

Van Houtven, George (contributor) - 2006

"The authors show how willingness to pay surveys can be used to gauge household demand for improved network water and sanitation services. They do this by presenting a case-study from Sri Lanka, where they surveyed approximately 1,800 households in 2003. Using multivariate regression, they show...

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Costs of taxation and the benefits of public goods : the role of income effects

Martin, Will - 2005

"The fact that raising taxes can increase taxed labor supply through income effects is frequently used to justify much lower measures of the marginal welfare cost of taxes and greater public good provision than indicated by traditional, compensated analyses. The authors confirm that this...

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Symbolic public goods and the coordination of collective action : a comparison of local development in India and Indonesia

Rao, Vijayendra - 2005

"Most economists think of common property as physical-a body of water, a forest-and as bounded within geographic space. In this paper, building on work in social theory, the author argues that common property can also be social-defined within symbolic space. People can be bound by well-defined...

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Equitable provision of long-term public goods : the role of negotiation mandates

Hourcade, Jean Charles - 2003

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Philippines : Study on Local Service Delivery

World Bank - 2013

This policy note analyzes the composition of public expenditures that support devolved services (including the resource allocation decisions that support these expenditures), an assessment of the quality of local service delivery based on available local data, and an evaluation of the...

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