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Institutional Obstacles to Doing Business : Region-by-Region Results from a Worldwide Survey of the Private Sector
BRUNETTI, AYMO AART OLIVER - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971048
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Public Enterprise Reform : A Challenge for the World Bank
Ruppert, Elizabeth - 2017
Public enterprises (PEs) earn an average 10 percent of GDP in developing countries. Many governments are reexamining the role of the state, so questions about whether to divest PEs or make them more efficient are likely to intensify. The Bank will increasingly be called upon for advice and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746944
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Estimating Real Production and Expenditures Across Nations : A Proposal for Improving the Penn World Tables
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2016
From its inception, the Penn World Tables (PWT), building on the International Comparisons Program (ICP)of the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747809
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Global Poverty Goals and Prices : How Purchasing Power Parity Matters
Jolliffe, Dean - 2020
With the recent release of the 2011 purchasing power parity (PPP) data from the International Comparison Program (ICP … previous round of PPP data from 2005 led to a large increase in the estimated number of poor in the world. The 2011 price data … world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012856238
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Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases : An Introduction
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2017
the Caribbean. Two are based on secondary sources: All the Ginis and the World Income Inequality Database; and one is … generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database. Although there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970655
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Comparing Cash and Voucher Transfers in a Humanitarian Context : Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Aker, Jenny C. - 2017
Despite recent calls in support of cash transfers, there is little rigorous evidence of the relative impacts of cash versus in-kind transfers, especially in humanitarian contexts, where a majority of such programs take place. This paper uses data from a randomized experiment in the Democratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970734
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Comparable Estimates of Returns to Schooling Around the World
Montenegro, Claudio E. - 2017
Rates of return to investments in schooling have been estimated since the late 1950s. In the 60-plus year history of such estimates, there have been several attempts to synthesize the empirical results to ascertain patterns. This paper presents comparable estimates, as well as a database, that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972785
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Corporate Governance and Bank Insolvency Risk : International Evidence
Anginer, Deniz - 2017
This paper finds that shareholder-friendly corporate governance is positively associated with bank insolvency risk, as proxied by the Z-score and the Merton's distance to default measure, for an international sample of banks over the 2004-08 period. Banks are special in that "good" corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972797
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Growth, Inequality, and Social Welfare : Cross-Country Evidence
Dollar, David - 2017
Social welfare functions that assign weights to individuals based on their income levels can be used to document the relative importance of growth and inequality changes for changes in social welfare. In a large panel of industrial and developing countries over the past 40 years, most of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973293
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Financial Development in Asia : Beyond Aggregate Indicators
Didier, Tatiana - 2017
This paper documents the major trends in financial development in Asia since the early 1990s and the spillovers to firms. It compares Asia with advanced and emerging countries and uses both aggregate and disaggregate indicators. Financial systems in Asia remain less developed than in advanced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973555