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Debt in Low-Income Countries : Evolution, Implications, and Remedies
Essl, Sebastian Michael - 2019
Debt vulnerabilities in low-income countries have increased substantially in recent years. Since 2013, median government debt has risen by about 20 percentage points of gross domestic product and increasingly comes from non-concessional and private sources. As a result, in most low-income...
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Issues in Adjustment Lending
Thomas, Vinod - 2017
Reaping the full benefit of adjustment packages depends on a government's commitment to reform as well as a variety of complementary factors, many of which have not been duly considered because of the lack of time, resources, and skills. It is becoming increasingly clear that if these packages...
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Channels of Transmission of the 2007/09 Global Crisis to International Bank Lending in Developing Countries
Adams-Kane, Jonathon - 2017
During a financial crisis, credit provision by international banks may be stymied by three distinct, but related, channels: changes in lending standards as a result of increased economic uncertainty, changes in funding availability from interbank liquidity markets, and changes in solvency due to...
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Charting the Diffusion of Power Sector Reforms Across the Developing World
Foster, Vivien - 2019
Some 25 years have elapsed since international financial institutions espoused a package of power sector reform measures that became known as the Washington Consensus. This package encompassed the establishment of autonomous regulatory entities, the vertical and horizontal unbundling of...
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When Measure Matters : Coresidency, Truncation Bias, and Intergenerational Mobility in Developing Countries
Emran, M. Shahe - 2017
Biases from truncation caused by coresidency restriction have been a challenge for research on intergenerational mobility. Estimates of intergenerational schooling persistence from two data sets show that the intergenerational regression coefficient, the most widely used measure, is severely...
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Quality and Accountability in Healthcare Delivery : Audit Evidence from Primary Care Providers in India
Das, Jishnu - 2017
This paper presents direct evidence on the quality of health care in low-income settings using a unique and original set of audit studies, where standardized patients were presented to a nearly representative sample of rural public and private primary care providers in the Indian state of Madhya...
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A Quarter Century Effort Yet to Come of Age : A Survey of Power Sector Reforms in Developing Countries
Jamasb, Tooraj - 2017
It has been more than two decades since the widespread initiation of global power sector reforms and restructuring. However, empirical evidence on the intended microeconomic, macroeconomic, and quality-related impacts of reforms across developing countries is lacking. This paper comprehensively...
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Size and Age of Establishments : Evidence from Developing Countries
Ayyagari, Meghana - 2017
years old or younger. The analysis finds consistent evidence when it looks within a large country, India, based on detailed …
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Can E-Filing Reduce Tax Compliance Costs in Developing Countries?
Yilmaz, Fatih - 2017
The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between electronic filing (e-filing) and the total tax compliance costs incurred by small and medium size businesses in developing countries, based on survey data from South Africa, Ukraine, and Nepal. A priori, most observers expect...
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Subnational Fiscal Policy in Large Developing Countries : Some Lessons from the 2008-09 Crisis for Brazil, China and India
Fardoust, Shahrokh - 2017
expenditures, as in China and India, the impact was magnified. Increases in recurrent expenditure, which were made in Brazil and … India, acted as short-term stimulants; additional public investment, as in China, appears to have had a more lasting impact … integration, resulting in differential magnitude and timing of the crisis impact. For example, coastal states in India were …
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