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The Developing World's Bulging (but Vulnerable) "Middle Class"

Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line of developing countries, but are still poor by US standards. The "Western middle class" is defined as those who are not poor by US standards. Although barely 80 million people...

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Environment as cultural heritage: the Armenian diaspora's willingness-to-pay to protect Armenia's Lake Sevan

Laplante, Benoit; Meisner, Craig; Wang, Hua - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2005

This paper presents a study of willingness-to-pay of the Armenian Diaspora in the United States to protect Armenia's Lake Sevan, a unique and precious symbol of the Armenian cultural heritage. Dichotomous choice contingent valuation questions were asked by mail surveys to elicit...

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The impact of liberalizing barriers to foreign direct investment in services - the case of Russian accession to the World Trade Organization

Jensen, Jesper; Rutherford, Thomas; Tarr, David - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

The authors use a computable general equilibrium model of the Russian economy to assess the impact of accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), which encompasses improved market access, tariff reduction, and reduction of barriers against multinational service providers. They assume that...

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Government procurement : Market access, transparency, and multilateral trade rules

Evenett, Simon J.; Hoekman, Bernard M. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

The authors examine the effects on national welfare and market access of two public procurement practices-discrimination against foreign suppliers of goods and services and nontransparency of the procedures used to allocate government contracts to firms. Both types of policies have become...

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The effects of infrastructure development on growth and income distribution

Calderon, Cesar; Serven, Luis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

The authors provide an empirical evaluation of the impact of infrastructure development on economic growth and income distribution using a large panel data set encompassing over 100 countries and spanning the years 1960-2000. The empirical strategy involves the estimation of simple equations for...

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Corruption and trade tariffs, or a case for uniform tariffs

Gatti, Roberta - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

By explicitly accounting for the interaction between importers and corrupt customs officials, the author argues that setting trade tariff rates at a uniform level, limits public official's ability to extract bribes from importers. If the government's main objective is to raise revenues at the...

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Infrastructure restructuring and regulation - building a base for sustainable growth

Alexander, Ian; Estache, Antonio - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

The link between economic growth, and better provision of infrastructure services may be unproven, but it is clear that reforms to make infrastructure services more competitive (where possible), and to provide strong, and independent economic regulation of natural monopolies, do create an...

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Good governance and trade policy : are they the keys to Africa's global integration and growth?

Ng, Francis; Yeats, Alexander - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

Economists often argue that the level and structure of a country's trade barriers and the quality of its governance policies (for example, regulating foreign investment or limiting commercial activity with red tape) have a major influence on its economic growth and performance. One problem...

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Does public capital crowd out private capital? : evidence from India

Serven, Luis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1996

A recent but rapidly growing empirical literature focuses on the relationship between public and private capital. But for the most part, it ignores the heterogeneity of public investment. In many countries, especially in the developing world, public investment includes not only basic...

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Are returns to investment lower for the poor? Human and physical capital interactions in rural Viet Nam

van de Walle, Dominique - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

's education level, and demographic characteristics influence the gains to household income from irrigating previously unirrigated … land. The next marginal benefit of irrigation increases strongly with the education of a household. The results suggest … that unless disparities in education are addressed, market-oriented reforms will generate inequitable agricultural growth …

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