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Spatial Development and Agglomeration Economies in Services -- Lessons from India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
from India, this paper helps narrow this gap by comparing and contrasting the spatial development of services with that in …
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Does Local Financial Development Matter for Firm Lifecycle in India?
Ayyagari, Meghana - 2017
The differences in financial development across Indian states, while seeming substantial, have a minor effect on firm lifecycle and growth. These results hold controlling for differences in labor regulations across states, capital intensity, and for firms born before and after the major reforms....
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The Spatial Development of India
Desmet, Klaus - 2017
benefits accruing to them. India's mega-cities have continued to grow. This situation raises a number of important policy … questions. Should India aim to spread development more equally across space? Are India's cities becoming too large? Should the … is India?s experience compared with China and USA? …
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Effects of the Internet on Participation : Study of a Public Policy Referendum in Brazil
Spada, Paolo - 2017
Does online voting mobilize citizens who otherwise would not participate? During the annual participatory budgeting vote in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil -- the world's largest -- Internet voters were asked whether they would have participated had there not been an online...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972098
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Improving Access to Banking : Evidence from Kenya
Allen, Franklin - 2017
Using household surveys and bank penetration data at the district-level in 2006 and 2009, this paper examines the impact of Equity Bank -- a leading private commercial bank focusing on microfinance -- on access to banking in Kenya. Unlike other commercial banks in Kenya, Equity Bank pursues...
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Mobilization Effects of Multilateral Development Banks
Broccolini, Chiara - 2020
This study uses loan-level data on syndicated lending to a large sample of developing countries between 1993 and 2017 to estimate the mobilization effects of multilateral development banks (MDBs), that is, their ability to crowd-in capital from private creditors. Controlling for a large set of...
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Pioneering Firms in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States : Why and How Development Finance Institutions Should Support Them
Collier, Paul - 2019
The role of' first movers' in fragile states is critical: they grow and diversify markets in ways that no other firms do, generating disproportionate impact in terms of development and stability. But pioneer firms are rare in fragile states. This study documents their profile, their challenges,...
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Developing Public-Private Partnership Initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa : From Public Debt to Maximizing Finance for Development
Arezki, Rabah - 2019
This paper argues for a novel approach to financing infrastructure needs in Arab countries. It first describes the context of rising public debt in the region, contrasting it with the vast infrastructure needs. It then discusses the challenges in meeting these needs with traditional financing....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869701
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Poverty and Policy Selectivity of World Bank Trust Funds
Eichenauer, Vera Z. - 2017
Over the past decade, donors of foreign aid quadrupled their annual contributions to trust funds at the World Bank. This earmarking of contributions to donors' preferred recipient countries and issues has raised concerns about the alignment of trust funds with the performance-based allocations...
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High-Powered Incentives and Communication Failure
Mishra, Ajit Kumar - 2017
This paper uses a donor-provider-agent framework to study the role of provider incentives for the delivery of developmental goods like aid, credit, or technology transfer to the poor. The paper considers a situation where credible communication by the provider is the key to successful delivery....
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