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How Relevant Is Infrastructure to Growth in East Asia?

Seethepalli, Kalpana; Bramati, Maria Caterina; Veredas, … - 2012

This paper seeks to shed some light on the extent to which infrastructure sub-sectors - energy, telecommunications, water supply, sanitation, and transport - contributed to growth in East Asia during 1985-2004. It also attempts to provide additional insights on whether the relationship between...

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MTEFs and Fiscal Performance : Panel Data Evidence

Grigoli, Francesco; Mills, Zachary; Verhoeven, Marijn - 2013

In the last two decades more than 120 countries have adopted a version of a Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF). These are budget institutions whose rationale it is to enable the central government to make credible multi-year fiscal commitments. This paper analyzes a newly-collected dataset...

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Kenya's Quest for Growth Stabilization and Reforms--But Political Stability?

Bandiera, Luca; Kumar, Praveen; Pinto, Brian - 2012

Kenya has long had a reputation of being politically risky, manifested in corruption, uncertainty about policies, and … the importance of political connections in doing business. Kenya began its economic liberalization in 1993. Reform picked …

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Estimating Global Climate Change Impacts on Hydropower Projects : Applications in India, Sri Lanka and Vietnam

Iimi, Atsushi - 2012

. Three projects are considered - in India, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. The results are still tentative in terms of both …

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A Micro-Decomposition Analysis of the Macroeconomic Determinants of Human Development

Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; van de Walle, Dominique - 2012

. The paper illustrates the decomposition using data for Morocco and Vietnam, and the results offer some surprising insights …

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Poverty and Survival Prospects of Vietnamese Children under Doi Moi

Wagstaff, Adam; Nguyen, Nga Nguyet - 2013

By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions … inequalities in child survival are evident in Vietnam-a change from the early 1990s when none were apparent. The authors develop … progress among the poor will jeopardize Vietnam's chances of achieving the international development goals for child mortality …

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Reform, Growth, and Poverty in Vietnam

Dollar, David - 2013

Vietnam grew rapidly in the 1990s, and yet by many measures it has poor economic institutions. Dollar seeks to explain … this apparent anomaly. Between the 1980s and 1990s Vietnam carried out significant economic reforms, notably stabilization …. Relating these changes to the empirical growth literature, the author finds that Vietnam's growth acceleration is about what …

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Bailing Out the World's Poorest

Ravallion, Martin - 2012

While the 2008 financial crisis is global in nature, it is likely to have heterogeneous welfare impacts within the developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts for some of those affected, notably through the...

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Grand Corruption in Utilities

Kenny, Charles; S??reide, Tina - 2012

This paper discusses mechanisms of grand corruption in private sector utility provision in developing countries. By the term "grand corruption," the authors abstract from the petty corruption that consumers experience - for example, when firms and individuals pay bribes to get water delivery or...

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The Developing World is Poorer Than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty

Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - 2012

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence...

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