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No more cutting class? : reducing teacher absence and providing incentives for performance

Rogers, F. Halsey - 2009

"Expanding and improving basic education in developing countries requires, at a minimum, teachers who are present in the classroom and motivated to teach, but this essential input is often missing. This paper describes the findings of a series of recent World Bank and other studies on teacher...

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Incentives to learn

Kremer, Michael (contributor) - 2005

"The authors report results from a randomized evaluation of a merit scholarship program for adolescent girls in Kenya. Girls who scored well on academic exams received a cash grant and had school fees paid. Girls eligible for the scholarship showed significant gains in academic examination...

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Professional development and incentives for teacher performance in schools in Mexico

Lopez Acevedo, Gladys - 2004

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Yemen : A Natural Gas Incentive Framework

World Bank - 2012

Yemen is planning to export gas through Yemen Liquefied Natural Gas (YLNG) starting from 2009. Yemen is also aiming to develop the domestic gas market, in particular gas-to-power. Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export revenue and domestic gas sales are expected to partially offset the decline in...

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Financial Inclusion in Brazil : Building on Success

World Bank - 2014

The development of a far reaching correspondent banking network is one of the key factors behind Brazil's success story in financial inclusion. Between 2005 and 2011, the number of correspondents approximately doubled to more than 160,000. The Central Bank encouraged financial institutions to...

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Promoting enterprise-led innovation in China

Zhang, Chunlin (contributor) - 2009

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New technologies, new risks? : innovation and countering the financing of terrorism

Zerzan, Andrew - 2009

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Agricultural innovation systems : an investment sourcebook

2012

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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2009

find that competition has a negative effect on innovation, especially for firms further from the efficiency frontier, and … we do not find support for an inverted U effect of competition on innovation. The authors show that the supply chain of … multinational enterprises and international trade are important channels for domestic firms' innovation. They detect no evidence …

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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 inter-disciplinary research on innovation by firms. The econometric …

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