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Revisiting the National Innovation System in Developing Countries
Maloney, William F. - 2017
The paper argues that there is a greater commonality of approach between the National Innovation Systems approach and mainstream economic analysis than is often asserted, and that a better dialogue between the two could strengthen both perspectives. To this end, the paper uses an off-the-shelf...
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Do Poor Countries Really Need More it? The Role of Relative Prices and Industrial Composition
Eden, Maya - 2017
Conventional wisdom suggests too little information and communication technologies (ICT) in poor countries. Indeed, within 70 countries at various levels of development, there is a positive relationship between income per capita and the capital share of ICT. While this regularity is consistent...
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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
reliable electricity service) and have had a chance to become familiar with both computer use and the Internet …
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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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Who Uses Bottled Gas? Evidence from Households in Developing Countries
Kojima, Masami - 2017
Household surveys in Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka were analyzed using a two …
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