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The home as factory floor : employment and remuneration of home-based workers
Cunningham, Wendy V.; Ramos Gomez, Carlos - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002108642
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The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance
Balan, David J.; Knack, Stephen F. - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009508955
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Moral incentives : experimental evidence from repayments of an Islamic credit card
Bursztyn, Leonardo; Fiorin, Stefano; Gottlieb, Daniel; … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372784
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How useful is inequality of opportunity as a policy construct?
Kanbur, Ravi; Wagstaff, Adam - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421679
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Management capabilities and performance of firms in the Russian Federation
Grover, Arti; Torre, Iván - 2019
Using the management and operational practices survey in the Russian Federation, this paper finds that an average … Russian manufacturing firm adopts 43 percent of the structured management practices (a score of 0.43), a value that is far …, where a large share of firms adopt few structured management practices and only 3.5 percent of them have a score over 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114122
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Lessons from power sector reforms : the case of Morocco
Usman, Zainab; Amegroud, Tayeb - Weltbank - 2019
Morocco charted its own distinctive path of power sector reform. It selectively introduced private sector participation for generation capacity expansion and electricity distribution, while retaining a strong, state-owned and vertically-integrated national power utility operating as a single...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012632150
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Trade facilitation in services : a conceptual and empirical analysis
Gillson, Ian; Molinuevo, Martín; Sáez, Sebastián - 2020
Beyond their key contribution to value chains in all sectors, services represent a centrally important source of economic and export diversification. This paper discusses how to promote trade in services as a channel for growth, employment, and diversification by assessing services trade costs...
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Learning from power sector reform : the case of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Rana, Anshul; Khanna, Ashish - 2020
The challenge of power sector reform in the Arab Republic of Egypt has long been dominated by extremely high subsidies, with prices set well below the costs of supply. These subsidies have taken a variety of forms: explicit subsidies in the government budget, implicit subsidies in the...
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Learning from power sector reform experiences : the case of Vietnam
Lee, Alan David; Gerner, Franz - 2020
Vietnam's power sector has developed rapidly since the 1990s to become a top performer among developing countries. This success has occurred mostly under a state-owned utility, Electricity Vietnam. Select market-oriented reforms to date have also had some positive impact. By the late 1990s, the...
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Corruption, regulatory burden and firm productivity
Amin, Mohammed; Ulku, Hulya - 2019
impedes productivity more at higher levels of regulation. The analysis finds that there is a significant negative relationship … between corruption and firm productivity when regulation is high and an insignificant relationship when it is low. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058952