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Treasury Reference Model.
Hashim, A.; Allan, B. - World Bank Group - 2001
The Treasury Reference Model (TRM) gives guidelines for the design of automated treasury systems for government aiming at a) authorities within government and their advisors who are engaged in planning and implementing such systems; and b) software designers and suppliers from the private sector...
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The Contribution of Income Components to Income Inequality in South Africa: A Decomposable Gini Analysis.
Leibbrandt, M.V.; Woolard, C.D.; Woolard, I.D. - World Bank Group - 1996
inter-household inequality and poverty. …
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Evaluating different approaches to estimating vulnerability
Ligon, Ethan; Schechter, Laura - World Bank Group - 2004
A number of researchers have recently proposed a variety of different `vulnerability'measures designed to capture the welfare consequences of risk for poor households, and also proposed a variety of different approaches to estimating these various measures of household vulnerability. However,...
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Consumption insurance and vulnerability to poverty : a synthesis of the evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico and Russia
Skoufias, Emmanuel; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - World Bank Group - 2004
This paper brings together some of the empirical work conducted by IFPRI researchers which investigates linkages among the degree of consumption insurance, households'vulnerability to poverty, and household use of formal and informal coping mechanisms using the same empirical approach in five...
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Is child work necessary?
Bhalotra, Sonia - World Bank Group - 2001
This paper investigates the hypothesis that children work because their income contribution is necessary for the household to meet subsistence expenditures. It uses the fact that a testable implication of this hypothesis is that the wage elasticity of child labor supply is negative. Previous...
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How poor are the old? a survey of evidence from 44 countries
Whitehouse, Edward - World Bank Group - 2000
This paper surveys 11 international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution, and the elderly. Although it focuses on OECD economies, some 44 countries are covered. The paper addresses a series of questions. What level are the incomes of the elderly relative to the population as a...
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Earnings inequality in transition economies of Central Europetrends and patterns during the 1990s
Rutkowski, Jan J. - World Bank Group - 2001
relative wages that have underlined the rise in earnings inequality. The paper finds that the widening of earnings distribution … was concentrated in the early phase of transition, and the trend towards greater inequality in most countries tapered off … characterized by high but not exorbitant earnings dispersion. In most transitional economies of Central Europe earnings inequality …
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An overview of labor markets world-wide : key trends and major policy issues
Betcherman, Gordon - World Bank Group - 2002
This paper provides an overview of labor market trends, and key policy issues worldwide. It begins with a statistical overview of major indicators relating to the labor market, highlighting the diverging experiences between the high-income countries, and many developing regions. It then reviews...
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Indonesia Economic Prospects, December 2021 : A Green Horizon - Toward a High Growth and Low Carbon Economy
World Bank Group - 2021
The Indonesia Economic Prospects (IEP) is a bi-annual World Bank report that assesses recent macroeconomic developments …
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Indonesia Vision 2045 : Toward Water Security
World Bank Group - 2021
Vision 2045 aims to significantly transform Indonesia with the target of becoming one of the world's top five economies … by the time it reaches its centenary in 2045. But is this achievable without considering Indonesia's Water Security? This …
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