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Whither the World Bank and the IMF?
Krueger, Anne O. - 2021
On their fiftieth anniversary, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were" extensively reviewed, both to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233025
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Instruments of Development : Randomization in the Tropics, and the Search for the Elusive Keys to Economic Development
Deaton, Angus - 2010
-based evaluation of projects is unlikely to lead to scientific progress in the understanding of economic development. I welcome recent … trends in development experimentation away from the evaluation of projects and towards the evaluation of theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757925
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The Environment and Directed Technical Change
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
This paper introduces endogenous and directed technical change in a growth model with environmental constraints and limited resources. A unique final good is produced by combining inputs from two sectors. One of these sectors uses "dirty" machines and thus creates environmental degradation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150439
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The Illusion of Sustainability
Kremer, Michael; Miguel, Edward - 2021
The history of foreign development assistance is one of movement away from addressing immediate needs and toward focusing on the underlying causes of poverty. A recent manifestation is the move towards sustainability,' which stresses community mobilization, education, and cost-recovery. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239373
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The Life Cycle of Scholars and Papers in Economics -- the "Citation Death Tax"
Aizenman, Joshua - 2008
The information content of academic citations is subject to debate. This paper views premature death as a tragic quot;natural experiment,quot; outlining a methodology identifying the quot;citation death taxquot; -- the impact of death of productive economists on the patterns of their citations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772315
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The Same Yet Different : Worker Reports on Labour Practices and Outcomes in a Single Firm Across Countries
Freeman, Richard B. - 2010
This paper examines cross-country differences in labour policies and practices and employee performance and attitudes toward work from a sample of nearly 30,000 employees in a large multinational manufacturing firm. The analysis shows: 1) large establishment and country differences in work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759954
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Newer Need Not Be Better : Evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators Using Nighttime Lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2016
Penn World Tables and of the World Development Indicators better estimate true income per capita. We find that revisions of …-price series in both PWT 8.0 and PWT 8.1, the two most recent vintages of the PWT. We additionally find that the World Development … Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as are any recent vintages of the Penn World Tables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992665
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The Value of a Statistical Life : A Critical Review of Market Estimates Throughout the World
Viscusi, W. Kip; Aldy, Joseph E. - 2021
A substantial literature over the past thirty years has evaluated tradeoffs between money and fatality risks. These values in turn serve as estimates of the value of a statistical life. This article reviews more than 60 studies of mortality risk premiums from ten countries and approximately 40...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224918
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The Failure of Input-Based Schooling Policies
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2021
In an effort to improve the quality of schools, governments around the world have dramatically increased the resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240304
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External Adjustment, Global Imbalances and Valuation Effects
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2013
We provide an overview of the recent developments of the literature on the determinants of long term capital flows, global imbalances and valuation effects. We present the main stylized facts of the new international financial landscape in which external balance sheets of countries have grown in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078857