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Trading off the income gains and the inequality costs of trade policy
Artuc, Erhan; Rijkers, Bob; Porto, Guido G. - 2019
This paper characterizes the trade-off between the income gains and the inequality costs of trade using survey data for 54 developing countries. Tariff data on agricultural and manufacturing goods are combined with household survey data on detailed income and expenditure patterns to estimate the...
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Beyond the S-curve : insurance penetration, institutional quality and financial market development
Giné, Xavier; Ribeiro, Bernardo; Wrede, Peter - 2019
insurance markets. Based on 20 years of insurance premium data from 180 countries, and a similar wealth of data on institutions … and financial market development, the paper presents important correlates of insurance market development. Although the … analysis cannot identify which factors directly cause insurance market growth, the results suggest that interventions aimed at …
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Essential surgery
Debas, Haile T. (ed.) - 2015 - Online-Ausg.
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Long-Run Effects of Temporary Incentives on Medical Care Productivity
Celhay, Pablo - 2015
The adoption of new clinical practice patterns by medical care providers is often challenging, even when the patterns are believed to be efficacious and profitable. This paper uses a randomized field experiment to examine the effects of temporary financial incentives paid to medical care clinics...
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South Caucasus and Central Asia - The Belt and Road Initiative : Georgia Country Case Study
World Bank Group - 2020
Georgia is the only country in the CAC region that can access markets around the world through its own seaports and thus less dependent on China's BRI overland corridors for trade, investment and growth. Nevertheless, the Georgian government is investing in the one BRI corridor China, Europe...
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South Caucasus and Central Asia - The Belt and Road Initiative : Armenia Country Case Study
World Bank Group - 2020
Armenia is a small land-locked mountainous country with relatively difficult access to regional and global markets. The borders with Azerbaijan in the east and with Turkey in the southwest and west are closed. Only the borders with Georgia in the north and Iran in the south are open for trade...
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South Caucasus and Central Asia - The Belt and Road Initiative : Uzbekistan Country Case Study
World Bank Group - 2020
Uzbekistan is a resource-rich country with a relatively young population of 33 million, the largest in Central Asia. It is also a geographic pivot for the region, bordering all other Central Asian countries and Afghanistan, with transit connections in all directions. As a double landlocked...
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South Caucasus and Central Asia - The Belt and Road Initiative : Tajikistan Country Case Study
World Bank Group - 2020
Tajikistan is the poorest country in the region despite strong growth for nearly two decades; sustaining growth in future will need substantially higher growth in private investment and exports. Its per capita income (GNI) is close to USD 1,000 but nearly a third of its population, of around 9...
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South Caucasus and Central Asia - The Belt and Road Initiative : Kazakhstan Country Case Study
World Bank Group - 2020
Kazakhstan is an upper-middle income, resource rich country. Its ascent to upper-middle income status was propelled by rising oil production and booming oil prices which pushed the average annual rate to above 7 percent during 2000-2013. The halving of world oil prices and lower export demand...
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Index insurance : a viable solution for irrigated farming?
Arandara, Rathnija; Gunasekera, Shanuki; Mookerjee, Agrotosh - 2019
This paper documents the practical experience of deploying index insurance in a tropical country whose agriculture is … dependent on dual sources of water: rainfall and irrigation. The paper introduces an innovative hybrid index insurance product … Index Insurance Facility. The findings indicate that the new hybrid product performs better than the single trigger …
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