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Financial and legal institutions and firm size
Beck, Thorsten - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523437
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A curse of comparison? : Evidence on reference groups for relative income concerns
Kuegler, Alice - 2009
-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a … positively linked to individual life satisfaction. This evidence supplements the scarce economic research on reference groups … comparison. "--World Bank web site …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394114
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Improving the Well-Being of Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries
World Bank - 2021
Adolescent girls are viewed as a key demographic group to target for successfully breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty in developing countries. Unfortunately, for many teenage girls in developing countries, adolescence entails a fleeting transition from childhood to adulthood,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255409
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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
Beine, Michel - 2009
reduces home country fertility by about 0.3 percent for origin countries. "--World Bank web site …
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Globalization, growth, and poverty : building an inclusive world economy
Dollar, David (contributor); Collier, Paul (contributor) - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523873
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Globalization, growth, and poverty : building an inclusive world economy
Collier, Paul (contributor); Dollar, David (contributor) - 2002
Globalisation is already a powerful force for poverty reduction as societies and economies around the world are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479557
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Globalization, Growth, and Poverty : Building an Inclusive World Economy
World Bank - 2013
Societies and economies around the world are becoming more integrated. Integration is the result of reduced costs of … of measures that would help countries in danger of becoming marginalized become integrated with the world economy. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012563619
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Exploring the links between HIV/AIDS, social capital, and development
David, Antonio C. - 2008
development process. "--World Bank web site … data from the World Values Survey, the authors estimate reduced-form regressions of the main determinants of social capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521080
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Do community-driven development projects enhance social capital? : evidence from the Philippines
Labonne, Julien - 2008
"This paper explores the social capital impacts of a large-scale, community-driven development project in the … reduced the number of other investments. "--World Bank web site …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521081
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Violence in Colombia : building sustainable peace and social capital
2000
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