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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...

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Welfare effects of introducing competition in the telecom sector in Djibouti

Decoster, Xavier; Ibarra, Gabriel Lara; Mendiratta, Vibhuti - 2019

Djibouti is very well placed, as a landing site of undersea fiber optic cables, to benefit from the digital economy. However, the prevalence of a single national telecom operator in the country has stifled service delivery and innovation in the telecom sector. Mobile broadband coverage and...

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The Telecommunication Sector in the Palestinian Territories : A Missed Opportunity for Economic Development

World Bank Group - 2016

The Telecommunications Sector Assessment Note in the Palestinian territories is a knowledge product prepared by the … World Bank in response to a specific request from the Palestinian Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology … (MTIT) to assess the performance of the telecommunications sector, identify specific issues and make recommendations for …

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Balancing control and flexibility in public expenditure management : using banking sector innovations for improved expenditure control and effective service delivery

Piatti-Fünfkirchen, Moritz; Hashim, Ali; Farooq, Khuram - 2019

The control protocols that underlie public expenditure management have direct implications for a government's ability to pursue fiscal discipline and service delivery objectives. The literature recognizes the inherent challenge in balancing control with flexibility and that these two objectives...

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Cabinet size and governance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Wehner, Joachim; Mills, Linnea - 2020

measures of governance. The associations are robust in a regression framework that exploits within-country variation over time … simplistic policy prescriptions, a sizable increase in the number of ministers is likely bad news for governance …

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Trade facilitation in services : a conceptual and empirical analysis

Gillson, Ian; Molinuevo, Martín; Sáez, Sebastián - 2020

, transparency), and (iii) boosting the efficiency of governance structures for regulators that set policies affecting trade in …

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Trade facilitation in services : concepts and empirical importance

Van der Marel, Erik; Shepherd, Ben - 2020

focuses on the role of governance structures, institutions, and transparency in shaping the environment for trading in … gravity model, the analysis finds that the ad valorem equivalents of common measures of institutional quality, governance, and … - specifically those stemming from areas where improvement is needed in governance, institutions, and transparency - could …

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Elite capture of foreign aid : evidence from offshore bank accounts

Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Johannesen, Niels; Rijkers, Bob - 2020

Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank secrecy and private wealth management, but not in other financial centers. The estimates are...

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How mass immigration affects countries with weak economic institutions : a natural experiment in Jordan

Nowrasteh, Alex; Forrester, Andrew C.; Blondin, Cole - 2019

To what extent does immigration affect the economic institutions in destination countries? While there is much evidence that economic institutions in developed nations are either unaffected or improved after immigration, there is little evidence of how immigration affects the economic...

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South Asia Economic Focus : Rethinking Decentralization

2020

The South Asia Economic Focus is a biannual economic update presenting recent economic developments and a near term economic outlook for South Asia. It includes a Focus section presenting more in depth analysis of an economic topic of relevance for stability, growth and prosperity in the region...

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