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Women's Legal Rights Over 50 Years : What is the Impact of Reform?

Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2017

This study uses a newly compiled database of women's property rights and legal capacity covering 100 countries over 50 years to test for the impact of legal reforms on employment, health, and education outcomes for women and girls. The database demonstrates gender gaps in the ability to access...

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Women's Legal Rights Over 50 Years : Progress, Stagnation or Regression?

Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2017

Using a newly compiled database of women's property rights and legal capacity covering 100 countries over 50 years, this paper analyzes the triggers and barriers to reform. The database documents gender gaps in the ability to access and own assets, to sign legal documents in one's own name, and...

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What Drives the Global"Land Rush"?

Arezki, Rabah - 2017

The 2007-2008 upsurge in agricultural commodity prices gave rise to widespread concern about investors causing a "global land rush" . Large land deals can provide opportunities for better access to capital, transfer of technology, and advances in productivity and employment generation. But they...

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The State of Economics, the State of the World

Basu, Kaushik - 2017

the World," is an idiosyncratic stocktaking of the trajectory of economics from Adam Smith to contemporary times, with … the nature of knowledge engagement the World Bank Group is expected to have with the world …

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World Bank Lending and the Quality of Economic Policy

Smets, Lodewijk - 2017

This study investigates the impact of World Bank development policy lending on the quality of economic policy. It finds … using the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessments of macro, debt, fiscal and structural policies, and … previous studies based on earlier loans are consistent with claims by the World Bank that it has learned from its mistakes with …

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Developing Countries and Monitoring WTO Commitments in Response to the Global Economic Crisis

Bown, Chad P. - 2017

the World Bank in response to the global economic crisis of 2008-2009. Given trends in the imposition of new crisis …

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Rethinking Multipliers in a Globalized World

Nallari, Raj - 2017

This paper uses the central tool of an investment-savings and monetary-policy model with an augmented Philips curve and presents a few extensions of that model to analyze the multiplier effects of macroeconomic policies in the United States. In doing so, the authors incorporate realistic...

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Financial Channels, Property Rights, and Poverty : A Sub-Saharan African Perspective

Singh, Raju Jan - 2017

Studies on the link between financial development and poverty have been inconclusive. Some claim that deeper financial sectors should improve the allocation of capital by allowing entrepreneurs greater access to finance, which should particularly favor the poor. Others argue that improvements in...

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Urbanization and Property Rights

Cai, Yongyang - 2017

Since the industrial revolution, the economic development of Western Europe and North America was characterized by continuous urbanization accompanied by a gradual phasing-in of urban land property rights over time. Today, however, the evidence in many fast urbanizing low-income countries points...

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Impact of Property Rights Reform to Support China?S Rural-Urban Integration : Village-Level Evidence from the Chengdu National Experiment

Deininger, Klaus W. - 2017

As part of a national experiment, in 2008 Chengdu prefecture implemented ambitious property rights reforms, including complete registration of all land together with measures to ease transferability and eliminate labor market restrictions. This study uses a discontinuity design with spatial...

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