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, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at … firms. On the other hand, corruption and poor access to infrastructure reduce employment growth by affecting the growth of …
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This article makes three contributions to the literature. First, it provides new evidence of the impact of community monitoring interventions using a unique dataset from the Citizen Visible Audit (CVA) program in Colombia. In particular, this article studies the effect of social audits on...
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's borrowing member countries to prevent and control corruption, by supporting the design and implementation of policies …
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Although the Latin American region's growth rates are at a three decade high, they have been historically disappointing in relative terms, which cannot be dissociated from the microeconomic environment in which firms operate. Policy makers may need to complement their focus on macroeconomic...
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, corporate governance, economic policy, finance, and anti-corruption efforts. This publication belongs to the Latin American …
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An influential body of scholarship argues that corruption behaves as a selffulfilling prophecy. The idea of this work … is that levels of corruption emerge endogenously as a result of a society-wide coordination game in which ther individual … returns to corrupt behavior are a function of how disposed towards corruption the other members of society are perceived as …
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individuals and in the satisfaction of life domains, such as leisure, social life, family, health, housing, neighborhood economic … due to differences in individual outcomes like education, health, labor situation and housing quality. …
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families are able to substitute piped water for more expensive and distant sources of water. These health and savings effects …
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health for households in Uruguay. Titling could improve health outcomes through various channels: housing investment, income …
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This is the latest version available of "Do We Know What Works": A Systematic Review of Impact Evaluations of Social Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean¿. The document reviews social programs placing emphasis on extracting lessons from those that have been evaluated in order to assess...
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