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Jobs' amenability to working from home : evidence from skills surveys for 53 countries
Hatayama, Maho; Viollaz, Mariana; Winkler, Hernan - 2020
The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of … development to estimate jobs' amenability to working from home. The paper considers jobs' characteristics and uses internet access … more intensive in physical/manual tasks, using less information and communications technology, and having poorer internet …
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What determines the size of public employment? : an empirical investigation
Herrera Aguilera, Santiago; Muñoz S., Ercio - 2019
This paper explores the determinants of public employment across the world and finds that it is negatively associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113855
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Securing development : public finance and the security sector ; a guide to public expenditure reviews in the security and criminal justice sectors
Bisca, Paul M. (ed.); Dorotinsky, William (ed.);  … - 2017 - Online-Ausg.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245378
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Entrepreneurship and the Allocation of Government Spending under Imperfect Markets
Islam, Asif - 2014
Previous studies have established a negative relationship between total government spending and entrepreneurship activity. However, the relationship between the composition of government spending and entrepreneurial activity has been woefully un
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246533
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Education Public Expenditure Review Guidelines
World Bank Group - 2017
Public expenditure reviews are one of the World Bank's core diagnostic tools for informing various stakeholders about … the World Bank's twin goals of poverty reduction and shared prosperity in the education sector implies the need to use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247565
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Stages of development of payment systems : leapfrogging across countries and MENA's place in the world
Gévaudan, Clément; Lederman, Daniel - 2020
This paper studies the relationship between the level of economic development and the incidence of three forms of payments across countries, namely the incidence of bank accounts, digital payments, and mobile money accounts among the adult populations across countries. It presents simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228183
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The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2015
2015 - Online-Ausg.
This Little Data Book on Information and Communications Technology 2015 presents tables for over 213 economies showing the most recent national data on key indicators of information and communications technology (ICT), including access, quality, affordability, efficiency,sustainability, and...
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The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2017
2017 - Online-Ausg.
simple voice and text services to diversified innovative applications and mobile broadband Internet. In 2016, there were more … than 7.3 billion mobile-cellular subscriptions worldwide. Globally, 3.5 billion people were using the Internet, of which 2 … Information and Communication Technology 2017 Illustrates the progress of this revolution for 217 economies around the world. It …
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Building and Sustaining National ICT Education Agencies : Lessons from International Experiences
Trucano, Michael - 2016
National ICT/education agencies (and their functional equivalents) play important roles in the implementation and oversight of large scale initiatives related to the use of information and communication technologies in education in many countries. That said, little is known at a global level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248351
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A new economy for the Middle East and North Africa
Arezki, Rabah - 2019
After a sharp fall in 2017, economic growth in MENA is projected to rebound to 3.1 percent in 2018, thanksto the positive global outlook, oil prices stabilizing at relatively higher levels, stabilization policies andreforms, and recovery and reconstruction as conflicts recede. The outlook for...
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