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Land Degradation in Tanzania: Perception from the Village.

Dejene, A.; Shishira, E.K.; Yanda, P.Z.; Johnsen, F.H. - World Bank Group - 1997

Local land users and officials often have conflicting perceptions of and responses to land degradation issues. This causes problems for officials in diagnosing and addressing the issue and is a major constraint on the successful implementation of policies and projects to address land...

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A Dignostic Framework for Revenue Administration.

Gill, J.B.S. - World Bank Group - 2000

A systematic diagnosis of a revenue administration is a prerequisite to developing a successful strategy for its reform. However, given the complexity of tax and customs administration, this is not a simple task. A host of external and internal factors need to be analyzed to uncover the roots of...

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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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Borrower Ownership of Adjustment Programs and the Political Economy of Reform.

Johnson, J.H.; Wasty, S.S. - World Bank Group - 1993

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Labor market policy research for developing countries : recent examples from the literature - what do we know and what should we know?

Puerta, Sanchez; Laura, Maria - World Bank Group - 2010

This paper documents recent advances of research on labor market institutions, behavior, and policies in developing countries and makes suggestions for future research. The four areas of research analyzed are: i) theoretical and empirical implications of employment protection legislation on...

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