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The relationship between politicians and senior officials has been on the reform agenda in many countries, often on the premise that balance between technical, nonpartisan appointments and ensuring the responsiveness of public servants to the policies of the current government could be improved...
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Governments are resource and bandwidth constrained, and hence need to prioritize productivity-enhancing policies. To do so requires information on the nature and magnitude of market failures on the one hand, and government's capacity to redress them successfully on the other. The paper reviews...
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of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …
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public schools in urban Peru. ¡Expande tu Mente! is a 90-minute school session aimed at instilling the notion that a person …
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-driven public policy objectives. This paper analyzes the experience of Peru with power markets, including market design …
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result of legal reforms that strengthened the mandate of Peru's competition authority. Legislative changes in 2013 …
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Using highly disaggregated firm-level customs transaction data for imports and exports in Peru over the 2000 …
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This paper examines the effect of air pollution on labor supply in Lima, Peru. It focuses on fine particulate matter …
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market outcomes. This paper tests this hypothesis in a developing country by using an individual-level data set from Peru … of labor market outcomes in Peru. In particular, cognitive skills positively correlate with wages and the probability of …
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This paper examines whether labor productivity converged across Peru?s regions (?departments?) during 2002-12. Given … the large differences in labor productivity across the regions of Peru, such convergence has the potential to raise … departments. But because services and agriculture continue to employ the majority of workers in Peru, aggregate convergence is …
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