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Bypassing Health Providers : The Quest for Better Price and Quality of Health Care in Chad

Gauthier, Bernard; Wane, Waly - 2012

This paper investigates individuals' bypassing behavior in the health sector in Chad and the determinants of … Service Delivery Survey in Chad's health sector carried out in 2004. The survey covers 281 primary health care centers and 1 … bypassing activities in Chad: (1) patients from low-income households bypass high-quality facilities they cannot afford to go to …

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Windfall Management for Poverty Reduction : Improving Public Finance Management, The Case of Chad

Toto Same, Achille - 2012

This paper aims at providing a guide to ensure efficiency in the management of Chad's windfall to support the …. The paper also discusses the petroleum management arrangements in place in Chad for poverty reduction. The author argues … that the successful management of Chad's windfall for poverty reduction will depend on the effectiveness of oil revenue …

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Leakage of Public Resources in the Health Sector : An Empirical Investigation of Chad

Gauthier, Bernard; Wane, Waly - 2012

health sector in Chad, and its effects on the prices of drugs. The analysis uses data collected in Chad as part of a Health …

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Infrastructure and Structural Change in the Lake Chad Region

Lebrand, Mathilde - 2022

development in the Lake Chad Region. Using data on the expansion of the paved road, electricity, and Internet networks over the … Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad …

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Limited Access Orders in the Developing World : A New Approach to the Problems of Development

North, Douglass C.; Wallis, John Joseph; Webb, Steven B. - 2012

The upper-income, advanced industrial countries of the world today all have market economies with open competition, competitive multi-party democratic political systems, and a secure government monopoly over violence. Such open access orders, however, are not the only norm and equilibrium type...

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Early Development Economics Debates Revisited

Alacevich, Michele - 2012

Development economics in its early years created the image of a fierce fight between advocates of contrasting theories or approaches- "balanced growth" vs. "unbalanced growth" or "program loans" vs. "project loans." This view has the merit to highlight such conflicts in great detail; yet it...

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Household Financial Assets in the Process of Development

Honohan, Patrick - 2012

Systematic information on household financial asset holdings in developing countries is very sparse. The author reviews some available data and current policy debates. Although financial asset holdings by households are highly concentrated, deeper financial systems are correlated with improved...

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International Liquidity Rents

Eden, Maya - 2013

This paper presents a model of global liquidity shortages. Liquid claims are enforceable promises that play a transaction role. Since developed economies have a comparative advantage in creating liquidity, they export liquid claims to emerging economies, resulting in a permanent current account...

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Global Capital Flows and Financing Constraints

Harrison, Ann E.; Love, Inessa; McMillan, Margaret S. - 2013

Firms often cite financing constraints as one of their primary obstacles to investment. Global capital flows, by bringing in scarce capital, may ease the financing constraints of host country firms. But if incoming foreign investors borrow heavily from domestic banks, foreign direct investment...

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Gender, Time Use, and Models of the Household

Apps, Patricia - 2013

The aim of this paper is to explain why time use data are essential for analyzing issues of gender equity and the intra-household allocation of resources, comparing living standards, and estimating the behavioral effects of changes in policy variables. The first step in the exposition is to show...

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