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Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, in the development community, the interaction of energy, environment, and … doing business. It is also affecting school attendance, particularly among girls. Inefficient energy sources can also pose … energy-efficient technology to cut greenhouse gas emissions. At the G8 summit in Gleneagles, the World Bank Group was asked …
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India has achieved much in the last 25 years. Since the early 1990s, when reforms began, growthrates have been higher … the last few quarters has generated worried commentaries about India's growth potential. The questions being raised are …" for India's growth potential? What sets of policies, structural or cyclical, might be needed to revive growth? In this …
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The pandemic has afflicted India at a time when its economy had already been decelerating. Defying a long …
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development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries-Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …
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Total energy expenditures for the Indian population between 1983 and 2012 are estimated to shed light on the debate … employment surveys are used to estimate the separate components of total energy expenditure related to metabolism and physical … activity levels. Despite a significant drop in adult physical activity levels, total energy expenditures are flat overall …
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This paper presents estimates of time-varying income elasticities of demand for energy and metal commodities. The …, estimates for aggregate metals and energy differ by an order of magnitude throughout the income spectrum: from a low of 0.2 for …
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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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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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This paper reviews the determinants of Latin America's uneven growth based on an accounting decomposition that breaks down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction exerted by the country's exports, (ii) an external...
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