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Do export promotion agencies promote new exporters ?
Cruz, Marcio - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Do export promotion agencies impact the probability of non-exporting firms to export? In the last decade many countries have introduced export promotion agencies to support their firms to deal with asymmetric information problems and make feasible additional gains from trade. Some recent studies...
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Dynamics of demand for rainfall index insurance : evidence from a commercial product in India
Stein, Daniel - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper analyzes the dynamic nature of rainfall insurance purchasing decisions, specifically looking at whether and why receiving an insurance payout induces a greater chance of purchasing insurance again the next year. This analysis uses customer data from the Indian micro-finance...
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Estimating poverty in the absence of consumption data : the case of Liberia
Dabalen, Andrew; Graham, Errol; Himelein, Kristen; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
In much of the developing world, the demand for high frequency quality household data for poverty monitoring and program design far outstrips the capacity of the statistics bureau to provide such data. In these environments, all available data sources must be leveraged. Most surveys, however, do...
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The African financial development and financial inclusion gaps
Allen, Franklin; Carletti, Elena; Cull, Robert; Qian, Jun; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper investigates the African financial development and financial inclusion gaps relative to other peer developing countries. The paper uses a set of variables related to financial development and inclusion. It first estimates the gaps between African countries and other developing...
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Who benefits from government health spending and why? a global assessment
Wagstaff, Adam; Bilger, Marcel; Buisman, Leander R.; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper uses a common household survey instrument and a common set of imputation assumptions to estimate the pro-poorness of government health expenditure across 69 countries at all levels of income. On average, government health expenditure emerges as significantly pro-rich, but there is...
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Updating poverty estimates at frequent intervals in the absence of consumption data : methods and illustration with reference to a middle-income country
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter F.; Serajuddin, Umar - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Obtaining consistent estimates on poverty over time as well as monitoring poverty trends on a timely basis is a priority concern for policy makers. However, these objectives are not readily achieved in practice when household consumption data are neither frequently collected, nor constructed...
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Local intermediate inputs and the shared supplier spillovers of foreign direct investment
Kee, Hiau Looi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Trade liberalizations have been shown to improve domestic firms'performance through the new varieties of imported intermediate inputs. This paper uses a unique, representative sample of Bangladeshi garment firms to highlight that local intermediate inputs may also enhance domestic...
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Mobile phone coverage and producer markets : evidence from West Africa
Aker, Jenny C.; Fafchamps, Marcel - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Mobile phone coverage has expanded considerably throughout the developing world, particularly within sub-Saharan Africa. Existing evidence suggests that increased access to information technology has improved agricultural market efficiency for consumer markets and certain commodities, but there...
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Non-farm enterprises in rural Africa : new empirical evidence
Nagler, Paula; Naude, Wim - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
operating a non-farm enterprise. Households are also pulled into entrepreneurship to exploit opportunities. Access to credit and … operating an enterprise. The characteristics are also associated with the type of business activity a household operates. Rural … and female-headed enterprises and enterprises with young enterprise owners are less productive than urban and male …
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Radio frequency (un)identification : results from a proof-of-concept trial of the use of RFID technology to measure microenterprise turnover in Sri Lanka
de Mel, Suresh; Herath, Dammika; McKenzie, David; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Accurate measurement of stock levels, turnover, and profitability in microenterprises in developing countries is difficult because the majority of these firms do not keep detailed records. This paper tests the use of radio frequency identification tags as a means of objectively measuring stock...
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