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Does public governance always matter? : how experience of poor institutional quality influences FDI to the South
Darby, Julia; Desbordes, Rodolphe; Wooton, Ian - 2010
This paper investigates whether the higher prevalence of South multinational enterprises (MNEs) in risky developing countries may be explained by the experience that they have acquired of poor institutional quality at home. We confirm the intuition provided by our analytical model by empirically...
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Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets : Evidence from Firm Surveys in 88 Developing Countries
Knack, Stephen - 2017
There is relatively little systematic evidence on the links between procurement systems and outcomes such as competition and corruption levels. This paper adds to the evidence base, using data on almost 34,000 firms from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, in 88 countries that also have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954322
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Debt relief and good governance : new evidence
Freytag, Andreas; Pettersson, Jonatan; Schmied, Julian - 2017
Since the introduction of the HIPC Initiative in the early 2000s, indebted LICs had to show a decent governance performance before their debts were forgiven. We discuss the hypothesis that during the follow-up, Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI), the World Bank has refrained from this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011611187
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Do Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Explain the Gender Wage Gap in Middle-Income Countries? An Analysis Using Step Data
Tognatta, Namrata - 2017
Gender-based wage discrimination is a highly researched area of labor economics. However, most studies on this topic have focused on schooling and paid limited attention to the mechanisms through which cognitive and noncognitive skills influence wages. This paper uses data from adults in seven...
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Payment choice in international trade : theory and evidence from cross-country firm level data
Hoefele, Andreas; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim; Yu, Zhihong - 2013 - This version: July 2013, First version: April 2012
When trading, firms choose between different payment contracts. As shown theoretically in Schmidt-Eisenlohr (forthcoming), this allows firms in international trade to optimally trade-off differences in financing costs and enforcement across countries. This paper provides evidence from a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009773440
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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries
McKenzie, David J. - 2017
in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. This paper shows that variation in business practices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971132
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Who Uses Bottled Gas? Evidence from Households in Developing Countries
Kojima, Masami - 2017
Household surveys in Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka were analyzed using a two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975879
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Unraveling a Secret : Vietnam's Outstanding Performance on the PISA Test
Parandekar, Suhas - 2017
This paper seeks to find an empirical explanation of Vietnam's outstanding performance on the Programme for … the unique exception of Vietnam, are typically clustered at the lower end of the range of the Programme for International … student Assessment scores. The paper compares Vietnam's performance with that of a set of seven developing countries from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969538
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How Natural are Natural Monopolies in the Water Supply and Sewerage Sector? Case Studies from Developing and Transition Economies
Nauges, Céline - 2016
economies in the water industry in four countries (Brazil, Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam) that differ substantially in economic … find evidence of economies of scale in Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam, implying the existence of a natural monopoly. In … customer density in Moldova and Vietnam. The results of this study show that the cost structure of the water and wastewater …
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Health Insurance Impacts on Health and Nonmedical Consumption in a Developing Country
Pradhan, Menno Prasad - 2017
The authors examine the effects of the introduction of Vietnam's health insurance (VHI) program on health outcomes … biases due to inappropriate specification of the outcome regression model. The authors' results suggest that Vietnam's health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966155