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Purchasing Power Parities and the Size of World Economies : Results from the 2017 International Comparison Program
World Bank Group (contributor) - World Bank Group - 2020
The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a worldwide statistical initiative led by the World Bank under the … the world's economies. The report provides ICP results for the benchmark year 2017 and revised results for earlier years …-operation and Development, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Notably, PPPs and ICP data are used in indicators monitoring …
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Benchmarking Public Procurement 2017 : Assessing Public Procurement Regulatory Systems in 180 Economies
World Bank Group - 2016
statistics on the size of public procurement in economies around the world. While data are publicly available for High …-income economies, for the rest of the world, data and studies are scarce. However, public procurement is as important in developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646534
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Public and Private Roles in Health.
Musgrove, P. - World Bank Group - 1996
The appropriate role of the state in health is complex both in economic theory and in practice. Theory identifies three reasons for state action: public goods or services with large externalities (involving efficiency); poverty (involving equity); and failings peculiar to insurance markets for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005638746
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Managing the Quality of Health Care in Developing Countries.
De Geyndt, W. - World Bank Group - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639173
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Unconditional Demand for Health Care in Cote d'Ivoire. Does Selection on Health Status Matter?
Dow, W.H. - World Bank Group - 1996
Health care demand price elasticies are often estimated from samples conditioned to include only sike people. This paper shows that not only may such estimates be statistically biased, but even when properly estimated they can only be interpreted as short-run price responses.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005776435
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A Survey of Health Reform in Central Asia.
Klugman, J; Schieber, G - World Bank Group - 1996
This paper surveys health reform in the former Soviet countries of Central Asia. Reform efforts are evaluated in the context of achieving the goals of improving people's health status, maintaining acces and equity, improving efficiency, increasing clinical effectiveness, and assuring quality and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639189
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The COVID-19 Pandemic : Shocks to Education and Policy Responses
World Bank Group - 2020
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was living a learning crisis. Before the pandemic, 258 million children … learning deficits. All this means that the world was already far off track for meeting Sustainable Development Goal 4, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647071
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Rebuilding Tourism Competitiveness : Tourism Response, Recovery and Resilience to the COVID-19 Crisis
World Bank Group - 2020
across the world, including many vulnerable communities, who depend on tourism for their livelihoods. According to the World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647436
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The Human Capital Index 2020 Update : Human Capital in the Time of COVID-19
World Bank Group - 2020
2018 as part of the Human Capital Project (HCP), a lobal effort to accelerate progress towards a world where all children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647503