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Business environment and dual-track private sector development : China’s experience in two crucial decades
Long, Xiaoning; Xu, Lixin Colin; Yang, Jin - 2020
A void in the literature on the business environment is how it evolves over time. Focusing on China during its crucial two decades of transition (from the early 1990s to the early 2010s), this paper documents how the country's business environment and the characteristics of entrepreneurs...
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Occupational dualism and intergenerational educational mobility in the rural economy : evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Jiang, Yajing; … - 2020
This paper extends the Becker-Tomes model of intergenerational educational mobility to a rural economy characterized by farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a micro-foundation for the widely used linear-in-levels...
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The Atlas of Rural Marginalized Areas and of Local Human Development in Romania
Tesliuc, Emil - 2016
Romania aims to be a country in which all citizens are provided with an equal opportunity toparticipate in society, where their basic needs are met and their differences respected, and whereall people feel valued and can live in dignity.Our society is still far from this ideal. One in every five...
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Improving the Rural Investment Climate for Businesses : Key to Rural Income Generation
Sawada, Naotaka - 2012
An appropriate rural investment climate (RIC) is essential for rural businesses to be successful and generate employment and income in their communities. Improving the investment climate could facilitate income-generation activities in both farm and nonfarm sectors, thus reducing rural poverty....
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Do Public Firms Respond to Industry Opportunities More than Private Firms? The Impact of Initial Firm Quality
Maksimovic, Vojislav - 2019
We track firms at birth and compare the growth pattern of IPO firms and their birth-matched counterparts. Firms that are larger at birth with faster initial growth are more likely to attain a larger size later in life and go public. Firms in the top percentile of predicted propensity to go...
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Productivity Effects of Tve Privatization : The Case Study of Garment and Metal Casting Enterprises in the Greater Yangtze River Region
Sonobe, Tetsushi; Otsuka, Keijiro - 2021
While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly … and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource … allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study …
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What's Holding Back the Private Sector in MENA? : Lessons from the Enterprise Survey
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - 2016
and financial constraints; employment in the private sector; and competitiveness, with a focus on trade, innovation and …
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Blockchain : Opportunities for Private Enterprises in Emerging Markets, Second Edition
International Finance Corporation - 2019
Blockchain is an emerging technology that offers the possibility of re-engineering economic models and enabling the creation of markets and products that were previously unavailable or unprofitable across emerging markets. This report is intended to introduce readers to current developments in...
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Private Sector Economic Impacts from Identification Systems
World Bank Group - 2018
Identification systems are a core component of sustainable development policies in countries with diverse economic, demographic, and political contexts. The role of digital identification systems in the private sector is equally large. The efficient, accurate, and secure use of personal identity...
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Private Sector and Refugees : Pathways to Scale
The Bridgespan Group - 2019
According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Refugee Agency, by the end of 2017, nearly 70 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced - more than the entire population of the United Kingdom. Governments, aid agencies, and non-government...
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