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World Bank Group support to public-private partnerships : lessons from experience in client countries, FY02-12

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State-Building, Economic Development, and Democracy : The Japanese Experience

Tsunekawa, Keiichi - 2010

The remolding of the state from an autocratic to a democratic one in postwar Japan is sometimes regarded as a … successful case of external intervention for state-building. When Americans landed in Japan two weeks after Japan's acceptance of … occupation in Japan, this paper will argue that American policies were only partially helpful in the democratic remolding and …

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Can we rely on VIIRS nightlights to estimate the short-term impacts of natural disasters? : evidence from five Southeast Asian countries

Skoufias, Emmanuel; Strobl, Eric; Tveit, Thomas - 2019

Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) nightlights are used to model damage caused by earthquakes, floods, and typhoons in five Southeast Asian countries (Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam). The data are used to examine the extent to which for each type of...

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International benchmarking for country economic diagnostics : a stochastic frontier approach

Kumbhakar, Subal; Loayza, Norman; Norambuena, Vivian - 2020

This paper discusses and illustrates the analytical foundations of international comparisons (or benchmarking) for assessing a country's potential for improvement along various dimensions of social and economic development. By providing a methodology for international benchmarking, discussing...

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From Ghana to America : the skill content of jobs and economic development

Bello, Salvatore Lo; Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura; … - 2019

There is a growing body of literature exploring the skill content of jobs. This paper contributes to this research by using data on the task content of occupations in developing countries, instead of U.S. data, as most existing studies do. The paper finds that indexes based on U.S. data do not...

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