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Firm-embedded productivity and cross-country income differences

Alviarez, Vanessa; Cravino, Javier; Ramondo, Natalia - 2021

We measure the contribution of firm-embedded productivity to cross-country income differences. By firm …-embedded productivity we refer to the components of productivity that differ across firms and that can be transferred internationally, such … face less competition in less-developed coun-tries, suggesting that firm-embedded productivity in those countries is scarce …

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Two views on institutions and development: the grand transition vs the primacy of institutions

Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2007

The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the same level (zones) of development. The Primacy of Institutions (PoI) view claims that economic...

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Women's rights and development

Fernández, Raquel - 2010

Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process of development (i.e., capital accumulation and...

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Community-based adaptation: lessons from the development marketplace 2009 on adaptation to climate change

Heltberg, Rasmus; Gitay, Habiba; Prabhu, Radhika - 2010

The Development Marketplace 2009 focused on adaptation to climate change. This paper identifies lessons from the Marketplace and assesses their implications for adaptation support. Our findings are based on: statistical tabulation of all proposals; in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis...

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Weather and income : lessons from the main European regions

García-León, David - 2015

Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...

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Information and communication technology, agricultural profitability, and child labor in rural Peru

Beuermann, Diether W. - 2013

We estimate the impact of access to information and communication technology on agricultural profitability and child labor among isolated villages in rural Peru. We exploit the timing of an intervention that provided at least one public (satellite) payphone to 6,296 villages that did not...

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Sharing skills and needs between providers and users of climate information to create climate services : lessons from the Northern Adriatic case study

Giannini, Valentina; Bellucci, Alessio; Torresan, Silvia - 2016

The need to cope with the expected impacts of climate change on socio-ecological systems calls for a closer dialogue between climate scientists and the community of climate information users (e.g. decision makers belonging to public institutions). We describe an interactive process designed to...

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Does access to better water and sanitation infrastructure improve child outcomes? : evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Schady, Norbert Rüdiger - 2015

I review the evidence on access to water and sanitation infrastructure and child outcomes In Latin America. I show that there are large differences in access across countries and, within countries, between households living in urban and rural areas. Many papers in the public health literature...

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Access to modern energy : a review of barriers, drivers and impacts

Bonan, Jacopo; Pareglio, Stefano; Tavoni, Massimo - 2016 - This version: 5 July 2016

Universal access to modern energy services, in terms of access to electricity and to modern cooking facilities, has been recognized as a fundamental challenge for development. Despite strong praise for action and the deployment of large-scale electrification programs and improved cookstove (ICS)...

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Access to modern energy : a review of impact evaluations

Bonan, Jacopo; Pareglio, Stefano; Tavoni, Massimo - 2014

Universal access to modern energy services, in terms of access to electricity and to modern cooking facilities, has been recognized as fundamental challenge for development and is likely to be included in the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals. Despite a strong praise for action and several...

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