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Governance Indicators : Where Are We, Where Should We Be Going?
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart - 2012
Scholars, policymakers, aid donors, and aid recipients acknowledge the importance of good governance for development. This understanding has spurred an intense interest in more refined, nuanced, and policy-relevant indicators of governance. In this paper we review progress to date in the area of...
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Strengthening Local Government Budgeting and Accountability
Schaeffer, Michael; Yilmaz, Serdar - 2012
In many developing and middle-income countries, decentralization reforms are promoting changes in governance structures that are reshaping the relationship between local governments and citizens. The success of these decentralization reforms depends on the existence of sound public financial...
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How "Natural" are Natural Monopolies in the Water Supply and Sewerage Sector? Case Studies from Developing and Transition Economies
Nauges, C??line; Berg, Caroline H. van den - 2012
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
Wagstaff, Adam; Pradhan, Menno - 2012
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/10012554022
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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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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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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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Exploring Carbon Pricing in Developing Countries : A Macroeconomic Analysis in Ethiopia
Benitez, Pablo; Medhin, Haileselassie; Tamru, Seneshaw; … - 2019
This study uses a computable general equilibrium model to analyze various policy scenarios for a carbon tax on greenhouse gas emissions from petroleum fuels and kerosene in Ethiopia. The carbon tax starts at $5 per ton of carbon dioxide in 2018 and rises to $30 per ton in 2030. Different...
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Reserve Requirements in the Brave New Macroprudential World
Cordella, Tito; Federico, Pablo; Vegh, Carlos; Vuletin, … - 2014
Using a new, large data set on quarterly reserve requirements for the period 1970-2011, this paper provides new evidence on the use of reserve requirements as a countercyclical macroprudential tool in developing countries. The appeal of reserve requirements lies in the pro-cyclical behavior of...
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Product Innovation by Incumbent Firms in Developing Economies : The Roles of Research and Development Expenditures, Trade Policy, and the Investment Climate
Lederman, Daniel - 2012
A model of firm innovation illustrates the effects of the threat of imitation and product varieties on a representative firm's decision to invest in research and development to produce new product varieties. The model motivates two empirical questions: (1) Is research and development partially...
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