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Fink, Guenther; Kandpal, Eeshani; Shapira, Gil - 2019

deviation increase in wealth being associated with an increase of 4 percentage points in protocol compliance. This increase in … compliance represents 8 percent of the average quality of care received by women in the lowest wealth quintile. Over half of the …

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Do Poor Countries Really Need More IT? The Role of Relative Prices and Industrial Composition

Eden, Maya - 2015

Conventional wisdom suggests too little information and communication technologies (ICT) in poor countries. Indeed, within 70 countries at various levels of development, there is a positive relationship between income per capita and the capital share of ICT. While this regularity is consistent...

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How Is the Internet Changing Labor Market Arrangements? Evidence from Telecommunications Reforms in Europe

Vazquez, Emmanuel - 2017

This paper exploits variations in the timing of telecommunications reforms across Europe to analyze the relationship between the rise of alternative work arrangements and the emergence of the Internet. The paper evaluates whether sectors that are technologically more dependent on information and...

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Motivating bureaucrats through social recognition : evidence from simultaneous field experiments

Gauri, Varun; Jamison, Julian C.; Mažar, Nina; Ozier, Owen - 2018

Bureaucratic performance is a crucial determinant of economic growth. Little is known about how to improve it in resource-constrained settings. This study describes a field trial of a social recognition intervention to improve record keeping in clinics in two Nigerian states, replicating the...

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Transport connectivity, medical supplies, and people’s health care access : evidence from Madagascar

Iimi, Atsushi; Rajoela, Voahirana Hanitriniala - 2018

Health care access is a challenge in rural areas in Africa. On the demand side, rural people are often poor, and transport connectivity is typically bad in rural and remote areas. Because of limited transport connectivity, the quality of health care services provided is also often compromised....

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Firm compliance and public disclosure in Vietnam

Hollweg, Claire H. - 2019

relationship between transparency on working conditions and firm compliance in the apparel sector in Vietnam between 2010 and 2018 … public disclosure program that would see factories' names made publicly available along with their compliance (or lack … noncompliance rates over time, and then examines the impact of the public disclosure policy on compliance rates and firm dropout …

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Romania Regional Hospital Analysis Study : Regional Referral Networks in Romania

World Bank Group - 2018

Romania lags behind other European Union (EU) countries in many health outcomes. The government of Romania plans to build three new regional hospitals in the North-West (NW), North-East (NE), and South-West (SW) regions. These are envisaged to be tertiary referral hospitals providing highly...

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Fixing the Public Hospital System in China

World Bank - 2010

In recent years, Chinese health care has improved rapidly, especially in the areas of equity and accessibility of services, as well as the movement toward universal coverage. A new round of health care reform, which was announced in April 2009, began implementation in 2010, with reform pilots in...

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Lessons for Hospital Autonomy : Implementation in Vietnam from International Experience

World Bank (contributor); … - Vietnam Ministry of Health - 2011

The Government of Vietnam sees hospital autonomy policy as important and consistent with current development trends in Vietnam. It is based on government policies as laid out in government Decree on financial autonomy of revenue-generating public service entities; and to 2006, it is replaced by...

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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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