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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.

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Attracting private solutions and participation in the power sector in Sub-Saharan Africa : findings from a survey of investors and financiers

Probst, Benedict; Holcroft, Richard; Huenteler, Joern; … - 2020

fill the investment gap. It finds that the average investor assigns more weight to power sector policy and regulatory …

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Sustainable Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa : Investment Practitioner Views of Sustainable Investment in Private Equity and Asset Management in South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya

International Finance Corporation - 2011

Sustainable investment (SI) has a strong niche foothold in Sub-Saharan Africa, anchored in the region's largest … investment market, South Africa. Yet more work is needed, at policy and portfolio levels, to grow this investment theme. This … considerable growth of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations applied to investment in South Africa, Kenya, and …

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Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? : Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea

Carneiro, Pedro - 2015

It is often argued that engaging in indoor residual spraying in areas with high coverage of mosquito bed nets may discourage net ownership and use. This is just a case of a public program having perverse incentives. This paper analyzes new data from a randomized control trial conducted in...

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Does Oil Revenue Crowd Out Other Tax Revenues? Policy Lessons for Uganda

Belinga, Vincent - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon revenues using a probabilistic panel model with data covering 30 resource-rich countries over 1992-2012. It also discusses policy implications for Uganda, a country with recently discovered oil reserves. The findings...

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Preschool Education in Brazil : Does Public Supply Crowd Out Private Enrollment?

Bastos, Paulo - 2016

This paper examines whether an expansion in the supply of public preschool crowds out private enrollment. The paper uses rich data for municipalities in Brazil from 2000 to 2006, where federal transfers to local governments change discontinuously with given population thresholds. The results...

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Property rights, political connections, and corporate investment

Miao, Meng; Tang, Dragon Yongjun; Xu, Lixin Colin - 2019

studies the impact of an urban land titling program on firm investment. It finds that the program leads to increased … investment rate for titling firms, and the positive effect holds only for politically connected firms. The effects are likely …

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Capital allocation in developing countries

David, Joel M.; Cusolito, Ana Paula; Venkateswaran, Venky; … - 2019

set of moments describing firm-level investment dynamics and detailed parameter estimates on a country-by-country basis …

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Sharing the benefits of innovation-digitization : a summary of market processes and policy suggestions

Islam, Roumeen - 2018

Governments play a very important role in supporting innovation, managing the disruptive effects of innovation, and ensuring that the benefits of innovation are broadly shared in the long run. This paper reviews the literature on market mechanisms that translate innovation into jobs and policies...

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The impact of positive agricultural income shocks on rural Chinese households

Leight, Jessica - 2018

evidence of decreased agricultural investment, increased investment in non-agricultural businesses, and increased migration as …

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