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India : Municipal Financing Requirements - Water, Sewerage, and Solid Waste

World Bank - 2013

, sanitation and municipal solid waste in India. The cost models are designed as tools that allow linking the various building … supply services, urban sewerage services, municipal solid waste, and investment needs. …

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Solid Waste Management Holistic Decision Modeling

World Bank - 2013

This study provides support to the Bank's ability to conduct client dialogue on solid waste management technology … alternative solid waste systems in a wide array of waste management conditions, using data collected from cities selected in each … understanding the waste disposal options most appropriate to their conditions. …

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Upstream Reduction of Solid Waste Generation : Implications on Dioxin and Furan Emission

World Bank - 2013

Environmental Resources Management-PR, Inc presents this report entitled 'upstream reduction of solid waste generation … waste generation and its implications on dioxin and furan emissions, approved by the World Bank on April 19, 2011. Burning … the household level in rural areas and other areas not adequately covered by collection. Waste burning is one of the major …

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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2009

"Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using data on firms in 27 transition economies, the authors test for the effects of globalization through the impact of increased competition and foreign...

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Effects of privatization and ownership in transition economies

Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2009

"The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post-communist economies privatization to foreign owners results in a rapid improvement in performance of firms, while performance effects of privatization to domestic owners are less impressive and...

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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes : cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies

Mitra, Pradeep - 2009

"This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...

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Firms' productive performance and the investment climate in developing economies : an application to MENA manufacturing

Kinda, Tidiane - 2009

"Drawing on the World Bank Investment Climate Assessment surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between firm-level technical efficiency and the investment climate for 22 developing economies and eight manufacturing industries. The authors first propose three measures of firms'...

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Innovative firms or innovative owners? : determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises

De Mel, Suresh J. - 2009

"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...

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Explaining enterprise performance in developing countries with business climate survey data

Dethier, Jean-Jacques - 2008

"This paper surveys the recent literature which examines the impact of business climate variables on productivity and growth in developing countries using enterprise surveys. Comparable enterprise surveys today cover some 70,000 firms in over 100 countries around the world. The literature that...

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Does gender matter for firm performance? : evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Sabarwal, Shwetlena - 2008

"Using 2005 firm level data for 26 countries in Eastern and Central Europe, this paper estimates performance gaps between male and female-owned businesses, while controlling for location by industry and country. The findings show that female entrepreneurs have a significantly smaller scale of...

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