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Informality in the Process of Development and Growth

Loayza, Norman - 2016

"Informality" is a term used to describe the collection of firms, workers, and activities that operate outside the legal and regulatory systems. It is widespread in the majority of developing countries-in a typical developing economy, the informal sector produces about 35 percent of gross...

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Urbanization and Property Rights

Cai, Yongyang - 2015

Since the industrial revolution, the economic development of Western Europe and North America was characterized by continuous urbanization accompanied by a gradual phasing-in of urban land property rights over time. Today, however, the evidence in many fast urbanizing low-income countries points...

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Are Large Firms Born or Made? Evidence from Developing Countries

Ayyagari, Meghana - 2015

This paper uses survey data from 120 developing countries to compare the role of institutions with firm characteristics …

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Measuring Firm-Level Innovation Using Short Questionnaires : Evidence from an Experiment

Cirera, Xavier - 2016

Little is known about innovation in developing countries, partly because of the lack of comparable and reliable data. Collecting data on firm-level innovation is challenging because of the subjective definition of what determines an innovation, a problem that is exacerbated in developing...

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Creative Trade for Human Development

Kabanda, Patrick - 2016

In recent years, international trade in creative goods and services has been expanding. But this upward march is not lifting all boats. Although many developing countries are endowed with vast cultural wealth, they still lag behind. In addition, women are not faring well. Much needs to be done...

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Economic Upgrading through Global Value Chain Participation : Which Policies Increase the Value Added Gains?

Kummritz, Victor - 2017

The emergence of global value chains has opened up new ways to achieve development and industrialization. However, new evidence shows that not all countries have gained from participating in global value chains, and that country-specific characteristics matter for economic upgrading in global...

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"Small Miracles"-Behavioral Insights to Improve Development Policy : World Development Report 2015

Demeritt, Allison - 2015

One of the most fruitful advances in modern economics has been the introduction of psychological realism into the model of "economic man." The World Development Report 2015 organizes the evidence about how humans actually think and make decisions into a coherent framework useful for designing...

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Development Economics as Taught in Developing Countries

McKenzie, David J. - 2015

theory, poverty and inequality, human capital, and institutions taught in at least half the classes, with substantial …

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Bangladesh Development Update, October 2016 : Sustained Development Progress

World Bank - 2016

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Water SupplyThe Transition from Emergency to Development Support

Sitali, Muyatwa - 2017

Donors supporting countries affected by fragility conflict and violence face a difficult trade-off. Should they deliver … urgently needed water supply infrastructure through non-state actors or build the country institutions that deliver water … international agencies and NGOs. This leaves country institutions in their post-crisis enfeabled condition often locking these …

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