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We Just Ran Twenty-Three Million Queries of the World Bank's Website - Working Paper 362
Dykstra, Sarah; Dykstra, Benjamin; Sandefur, Justin - 2014
Much of the data underlying global poverty and inequality estimates is not in the public domain, but can be accessed in small pieces using the World Bank’s PovcalNet online tool. To overcome these limitations and reproduce this database in a format more useful to researchers, we ran...
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The Illusion of Sustainability
Kremer, Michael; Miguel, Edward - 2004
The history of foreign development assistance is one of movement away from addressing immediate needs to a focus on the underlying causes of poverty. A recent manifestation is the move towards “sustainability,” which stresses community mobilization, education, and cost-recovery. This stands...
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The dynamic effects of information on political corruption: Theory and evidence from Puerto Rico
Bobonis, Gustavo J.; Cámara Fuertes, Luis R.; Schwabe, … - 2012
Does the disclosure of information about corrupt activities induce a sustained reduction in corruption? We use … longitudinal data on audits of municipal governments in Puerto Rico to answer this question. We find that corruption is lower in … municipalities audited before an election. However, these municipalities do not exhibit decreased levels of corruption in subsequent …
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Estimation of Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate and of Deviations for Romania
Altar, Moisa; Albu, Lucian Liviu; Dumitru, Ionut; … - 2009
Equilibrium real exchange rate provides useful information on the harmonisation of convergence criteria with exchange rate stability criteria; a requirement for accession to the European Monetary Union. This study applies econometric procedures for identifying the equilibrium real exchange rate...
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The convergence of industrial property rights
Anghel, Ion E.; Iancu, Victor - 2010
As regards the performance required for the development of the knowledge-based society, we view industrial property as an important level in this context. Therefore, in this paper we present (on a comparative basis) the system of industrial property rights and their protection in the European...
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Telecommunications infrastructure and economic growth: Evidence from developing countries.
Sridhar, Kala Seetharam; Sridhar, Varadharajan - 2004
Often, it has been observed that telecommunication infrastructure development and economic growth proceed together. While this relationship has been studied in the context of developed (OECD) countries, in this study, we investigate this simultaneous relationship between telecommunications and...
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Brave New World: A Literature Review of Emerging Donors and the Changing Nature of Foreign Assistanc- Working Paper 273
Ramachandran, Vijaya; Walz, Julie - 2011
In this paper, we look at the scale and scope of emerging donors, many of which are developing economies themselves. On the basis of a survey of the literature, we find that estimates of annual aid flows from new donors (so-called non-DAC donors) vary greatly and are somewhere between $11...
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Economic Policy and Wage Differentials in Latin America
Behrman, Jere R.; Birdsall, Nancy; Székely, Miguel - 2003
This paper applies a new approach to the estimation of the impact of policy, both the levels and the changes, on wage differentials using a new high-quality data set on wage differentials by schooling level for 18 Latin American countries for the period 1977-1998. The results indicate that...
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Saving Rates in Latin American: Why Reformers Got It Wrong
Reinhardt, Nola
This study examines the saving behavior of 18 Latin American countries in the 1976-2000 period compared to a group of 25 other middle-income developing countries. Over this period, Latin American saving rates have been consistently below the comparison group, despite extensive economic reforms...
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The Millennium Challenge Account: How Much is Too Much, How Long is Long Enough?
Clemens, Michael A.; Radelet, Steven - 2003
The US government’s proposed $5 billion Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) could provide upwards of $250-$300m or more per year per country in new development assistance to a small number of poor countries judged to have relatively “good” policies and institutions. Could this assistance be...
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