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Quantifying International Migration : A Database of Bilateral Migrant Stocks

Parsons, Christopher Robert - 2016

This paper introduces four versions of an international bilateral migration stock database for 226 by 226 countries and territories. The first three versions each consist of two matrices, the first containing migrants defined by country of birth, that is, the foreign-born population; the second,...

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Export Promotion Agencies : What Works and What Doesn't

Lederman, Daniel - 2016

The number of national export promotion agencies (EPAs) has tripled over the past two decades. While more countries have made them part of their national export strategy, studies have criticized their efficiency in developing countries. Partly in reaction to these critiques, EPAs have been...

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Estimation of Climate Change Damage Functions for 140 Regions in the Gtap9 Database

Roson, Roberto - 2017

Climate change damage (or, more correctly, impact) functions relate variations in temperature (or other climate variables) to economic impacts in various dimensions, and are at the basis of quantitative modeling exercises for the assessment of climate change policies. This document provides a...

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Why are the Elderly More Averse to Immigration When They are More Likely to Benefit? Evidence Across Countries

Schotte, Simone - 2017

Using household surveys for 24 countries over a 10-year period, this paper investigates why the elderly are more averse to open immigration policies than their younger peers. The analysis finds that the negative correlation between age and pro-immigration attitudes is mostly explained by a...

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Citizen-Centric Governance Indicators : Measuring and Monitoring Governance by Listening to the People and Not the Interest Groups

Ivanyna, Maksym - 2017

Governance indicators are now widely used as tools for conducting development dialogue, allocating external assistance, and influencing foreign direct investment. This paper argues that available governance indicators are not suitable for these purposes as they do not conceptualize governance...

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A New Index of the Business Environment for Microfinance

Cull, Robert - 2017

This paper describes a new index of the quality of the business environment for microfinance institutions (the Global … Microscope on the Microfinance Business Environment). Regressions are used to validate the index by linking it and its … subcomponents to microfinance outcomes. The main findings are that the components of the index related to the supporting …

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A Global Urban Risk Index

Brecht, Henrike - 2017

major hazards change over the coming decades? This paper develops a global urban disaster risk index that evaluates the …, and landslides, single hazard risk indices are developed. In addition, a multi-hazard index gives a holistic picture of …

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Methodology for a World Bank Human Capital Index

Kraay, Aart - 2018

This paper describes the methodology for a new World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI). The HCI combines indicators of …

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Distribution-Sensitive Multidimensional Poverty Measures

Datt, Gaurav - 2018

This paper presents axiomatic arguments to make the case for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures. The commonly-used counting measures violate the strong transfer axiom which requires regressive transfers to be unambiguously poverty-increasing and they are also invariant to...

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A Socioeconomic Disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index

Dsouza, Ritika - 2019

This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital … disaggregated by quintiles of socioeconomic status (SES) for a sample 51 mostly low- and middle-income countries. The index measures … the expected future human capital of children born today, following the methodology of the World Bank Human Capital Index …

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