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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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Who Serves the Poor? Surveying Civil Servants in the Developing World
Rogger, Daniel - 2017
, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines, to highlight key aspects of their characteristics and experience of …
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What Does MFN Trade Mean for India and Pakistan? Can MFN Be a Panacea?
De, Prabir - 2017
India and Pakistan, the two largest economies in South Asia, share a common border, culture and history. Despite the … benefits of proximity, the two neighbors have barely traded with each other. In 2011, trade with Pakistan accounted for less … than half a percent of India's total trade, whereas Pakistan's trade with India was 5.4 percent of its total trade. However …
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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
Survey data from 120 developing countries are used to examine the relation between establishment size and age in the formal sector. Existing research suggests that manufacturing establishments in developing countries do not grow over time, most likely because of market imperfections and...
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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
In response to the Great Recession of 2008, many national governments implemented fiscal stimuli packages in 2009 and 2010 to prevent further declines in aggregate demand and to jump start their economic recovery. Where subnational governments responded with fiscal contraction, as in the United...
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Eliciting Probabilistic Expectations with Visual Aids in Developing Countries : How Sensitive are Answers to Variations in Elicitation Design?
Delavande, Adeline - 2017
Eliciting subjective probability distributions in developing countries is often based on visual aids such as beans to represent probabilities and intervals on a sheet of paper to represent the support. The authors conducted an experiment in India that tested the sensitivity of elicited...
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The Offshore Services Value Chain : Developing Countries and the Crisis
Gereffi, G. - 2017
This paper analyzes the recent evolution and impact of the global economic crisis on the offshore services industry. Using a global value chains framework, the authors classify the offshore services sector in a comprehensive set of general and industry-specific activities that correspond to...
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