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Enforcing competition and firm productivity : evidence from 1,800 Peruvian municipalities
Schiffbauer, Marc; Sampi, James - 2019
result of legal reforms that strengthened the mandate of Peru's competition authority. Legislative changes in 2013 …
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The power of believing you can get smarter : th impact of a growth-mindset intervention on academic achievement in Peru
Outes-León, Ingo; Sanchez, Alan; Vakis, Renos - 2020
public schools in urban Peru. Expande tu Mente is a 90-minute school session aimed at instilling the notion that a person …
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Obesity and food away from home : what drives the socioeconomic gradient in excess body weight?
Strupat, Christoph; Farfán, Gabriela; Moritz, Laura; … - 2019
Rising obesity rates are one of the most challenging public health issues in many emerging economies. The extent to which the nutritional composition of food consumed away from home is behind this rise, and the links with socioeconomic status, is not yet well understood. This paper explores this...
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Free riding in loan approvals : evidence from SME lending in Peru
Arraiz, Irani; Bruhn, Miriam; Roth, Benjamin N.; … - 2019
This paper provides evidence that commercial lenders in Peru free ride off their peers' screening efforts. Leveraging a …
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Learning from developing country power market experiences : the case of Peru
Rudnick, Hugh; Velásquez, Constantin - 2019
-driven public policy objectives. This paper analyzes the experience of Peru with power markets, including market design …
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Evaluating the accuracy of homeowners' self-assessed rent in metropolitan Lima
Ceriani, Lidia; Olivieri, Sergio; Ranzani, Marco - 2019
Attributing a rental value to homeowners' dwellings is essential in different contexts, including poverty and inequality analysis, the compilation of national accounts, consumer price indexes, and estimation of purchasing power parity indexes. The proposed solution is often to use homeowners'...
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Identifying catch-up trajectories in child growth : new methods with evidence from young lives
Jones, Sam; Behrman, Jere R.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Anand, Paul - 2018
of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …
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Opening Press Conference, World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings, Lima, Peru, October 8, 2015
Kim, Jim Yong - 2015
This is the transcript of the remarks delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group. He discusses on the period of slow growth, the end of the commodity super-cycle, pending interest-rate hikes, and the continued flight of capital out of emerging markets in the world. He talks...
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Remarks at MENA Stakeholders Event, Lima, Peru, October 10, 2015
Kim, Jim Yong - 2015
Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group discusses conflicts that have caused a devastating amount of violence and destruction, severely affecting the livelihoods of millions of people, and creating destabilizing effects at the global level. He talks about the World Bank Group's new...
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Gaining Momentum in Peruvian Agriculture : Opportunities to Increase Productivity and Enhance Competitiveness
World Bank Group - 2017
What is the future for agriculture in Peru? Once the principal source of employment and income for much of the … population, Peru's agricultural sector has declined in importance as the national economy has grown and urbanized. Economic … decelerates, overall growth will suffer. Second, an expanding agricultural sector diversifies Peru's economy and reduces …
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