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Yokohama Development Knowledge Sourcebook
World Bank Group - 2018
The City of Yokohama offers useful lessons for other cities seeking to achieve sustainable urban development. It simultaneously managed rapid economic growth and a sharp rise in population through a series of thoughtfully conceived and well" integrated development projects and regulative...
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Credit Reporting Knowledge Guide 2019
World Bank Group - 2019
Access to finance is an essential component of economic development and job creation. A host of studies have shown a positive correlation between financial development and economic growth. Access to finance is also critical for larger corporations and conglomerates, which, given their size,...
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Design Matters : CBNRM and Democratic Innovation
Smith, Graham - 2019
Community-based natural resource management (CBRNM) aims to realize sustainable management of resources and improvements in livelihood. A central focus is the empowerment of indigenous and local communities through customary or devolved rights to common pool resources. Less attention is given to...
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Can the Knowledge Capital Model Explain Foreign Investment in Services? : The Case of Singapore
Chellaraj, Gnanaraj - 2015
Singapore's investment using the Knowledge-Capital Model and compares the impact of skill endowments on manufacturing and …
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How Much Teachers Know and How Much It Matters in Class : Analyzing Three Rounds of Subject-Specific Test Score Data of Indonesian Students and Teachers
De Ree, Joppe - 2016
matter knowledge of primary school teachers in Indonesia is low on average and that a 1.0, but also a 2.0 standard deviation … increase in teachers' subject matter knowledge seem to be achievable medium-term goals for education policy making in Indonesia … deviation increase in teachers' subject matter knowledge across-the-board can yield increases in student achievement by 0 …
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Impact of Counseling on Knowledge, Feelings and Actions of Over-Indebted Borrowers in Tajikistan
World Bank Group - 2016
opportunities for savings. In order to assess the impact of counseling campaigns on consumers' knowledge about their financial …
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Tackling the global profitarchy : gender and the choice of business sector
Goldstein, Markus P.; Gonzalez Martinez, Paula; … - 2019
Sectoral segregation is often used to explain a large part of a well-documented gender earnings gap in business profits. Women tend to sort into different sectors than men, and the sectors dominated by women tend to be less profitable. This paper investigates the horizontal dimension of sectoral...
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Full esteem ahead? : mindset-oriented business training in Ethiopia
Alibhai, Salman; Buehren, Niklas; Frese, Michael; … - 2019
Is there a mindset gap holding women back in business? Can entrepreneurship training instill a set of attitudes, behaviors, and strategies that are thought to underpin success in business such as motivation, perseverance, and self-confidence? This study conducted two randomized controlled trials...
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Learning to grow from peers : experimental evidence from small retailers in Indonesia
Dalton, Patricio S.; Rüschenpöhler, Julius; Uras, Burak; … - 2019
Business practices and performance vary widely among local peers. This paper identifies key determinants of such heterogeneity among a sample of small urban retail shops in Indonesia, and experimentally tests whether learning about the best practices of local peers is valuable for business...
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Making global value chains work for development
Taglioni, Daria; Winkler, Deborah - 2016 - Online-Ausg.
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