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How do special economic zones and industrial clusters drive China's rapid development ?

Zeng, Douglas Zhihua - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011

In the past 30 years, China has achieved phenomenal economic growth, an unprecedented development"miracle"in human history. How did China achieve this rapid growth? What have been its key drivers? And, most important, what can be learned from China's success? Policy makers, business people, and...

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How regional integration and transnational energy networks have boosted FDI in Turkey (and may cease to do so): a case study: how geo-political alliances and regional networks matt...

Martin, Sanchez; Eduardo, Miguel; Escribano Frances, Gonzalo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Turkey has historically struggled to attract foreign investors. This paper argues that not only macroeconomic and political stability, but also regional integration explains the upsurge in foreign direct investment observed since 2005. The analysis draws from a qualitative framework. It...

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Toward a conceptual framework for the knowledge bank

Chioda, Laura; de la Torre, Augusto; Maloney, William F. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

strengthen the knowledge mission of the World Bank. It first argues that the Bank occupies a unique and prominent subset of the … social and economic development"knowledge space"that ranges from abstract basic research to codified knowledge solutions. The … fact that this niche centrally includes the provision of public good-intensive knowledge weakens organizational analogies …

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Do informed citizens receive more...or pay more ? the impact of radio on the government distribution of public health benefits

Keefer, Philip; Khemani, Stuti - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012

The government provision of free or subsidized bed nets to combat malaria in Benin allows the identification of new channels through which mass media affect public policy outcomes. Prior research has concluded that governments provide greater private benefits to better-informed individuals. This...

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Regulation and deregulation in industrial countries : some lessons for LDCs

Bradburd, Ralph; Ross, David R. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1991

The United States'experience with antitrust and with directive regulation in the rail, trucking, airline, and telephone sectors offers useful lessons for developing countries. The experience highlights the realities both of market failure and of the difficulties of implementing regulation to...

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Processes, information, and accounting gaps in the regulation of Argentina's private railways

Campos-Mendez, Javier; Estache, Antonio; Trujillo, Lourdes - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001

Almost a decade after Argentina began privatizing its railways, resolution of conflicts between regulators, users, and operators continues to take longer, and to be more difficult, than expected. The authors contend that many of these conflicts arose because there are no rules for interactions...

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An empirical analysis ofcompetition, privatization, and regulation in telecommunications markets in Africa and Latin America

Wallsten, Scott J. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

The author explores the effects of privatization, competition, and regulation on telecommunications performance in 30 African and Latin American countries from 1984 to 1997. Competition is associated with tangible benefits in terms of mainline penetration, number of pay phones, connection...

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Bridging the digital divide - how enterprise ownership and foreign competition affect Internet access in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Clarke, George R.G. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001

Many observers attributed the rapid productivity growth observed in the United States in the mid- to late 1990s, to the growing use of information, and the Internet. This in turn created concern that developing, and transition economies - where use of information technology, and the Internet was...

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Regulation and internet use in developing countries

Wallsten, Scott - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

standard development indicators, and no empirical research has explored the role of regulation. The author uses data from a …

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Has the internet increased trade? Evidence from industrial and developing countries

Clarke, George R.G.; Wallsten, Scott J. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

If the Internet made it easier for firms to enter new markets by reducing communication and search costs, then it may also have made it easier to export goods and services. The authors find that higher Internet penetration in developing countries is correlated with greater exports to industrial...

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