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Investing in human capital : what can we learn from the World Bank's portfolio data?

Gatti, Roberta; Mohpal, Aakash - 2019

This paper compiles project-level data from the World Bank's lending history to describe patterns and the composition of its portfolio. The paper focuses particularly on the effect of countries' transition from International Development Association to International Bank for Reconstruction and...

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Life expectancy at birth and lifetime education and earnings

Hoque, Mohammad Mainul; King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, … - 2020

Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life...

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Balancing control and flexibility in public expenditure management : using banking sector innovations for improved expenditure control and effective service delivery

Piatti-Fünfkirchen, Moritz; Hashim, Ali; Farooq, Khuram - 2019

The control protocols that underlie public expenditure management have direct implications for a government's ability to pursue fiscal discipline and service delivery objectives. The literature recognizes the inherent challenge in balancing control with flexibility and that these two objectives...

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Transparent government and business regulation : "open for business?"

Geginat, Carolin; Saltane, Valentina - 2014

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Cabinet size and governance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Wehner, Joachim; Mills, Linnea - 2020

measures of governance. The associations are robust in a regression framework that exploits within-country variation over time … simplistic policy prescriptions, a sizable increase in the number of ministers is likely bad news for governance …

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Trade facilitation in services : a conceptual and empirical analysis

Gillson, Ian; Molinuevo, Martín; Sáez, Sebastián - 2020

, transparency), and (iii) boosting the efficiency of governance structures for regulators that set policies affecting trade in …

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Trade facilitation in services : concepts and empirical importance

Van der Marel, Erik; Shepherd, Ben - 2020

focuses on the role of governance structures, institutions, and transparency in shaping the environment for trading in … gravity model, the analysis finds that the ad valorem equivalents of common measures of institutional quality, governance, and … - specifically those stemming from areas where improvement is needed in governance, institutions, and transparency - could …

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Elite capture of foreign aid : evidence from offshore bank accounts

Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Johannesen, Niels; Rijkers, Bob - 2020

Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank secrecy and private wealth management, but not in other financial centers. The estimates are...

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How mass immigration affects countries with weak economic institutions : a natural experiment in Jordan

Nowrasteh, Alex; Forrester, Andrew C.; Blondin, Cole - 2019

To what extent does immigration affect the economic institutions in destination countries? While there is much evidence that economic institutions in developed nations are either unaffected or improved after immigration, there is little evidence of how immigration affects the economic...

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Flies without borders : lessons from Chennai on improving India's municipal public health services

Das Gupta, Monica; Dasgupta, Rajib; Kugananthan, P.; … - 2017

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