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Measuring Human Capital in Europe and Central Asia
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Torre, Iván - 2020
This paper outlines an extension of the Human Capital Index that addresses the specific challenges in education and health faced by countries in Europe and Central Asia. Good basic education will not be enough, as job markets today demand higher levels of human capital than in the past. As the...
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The Use of Willingness to Pay Experiments : Estimating Demand for Piped Water Connections in Sri Lanka
Pattanayak, Subhrendu K.; van den Berg, Caroline; Yang, … - 2014
The authors show how willingness to pay surveys can be used to gauge household demand for improved network water and sanitation services. They do this by presenting a case-study from Sri Lanka, where they surveyed approximately 1,800 households in 2003. Using multivariate regression, they show...
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The Creation of the Rule of Law and the Legitimacy of Property Rights : The Political and Economic Consequences of a Corrupt Privatization
Hoff, Karla; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2006
How does the lack of legitimacy of property rights affect the dynamics of the creation of the rule of law? The authors investigate the demand for the rule of law in post-communist economies after privatization under the assumption that theft is possible, that those who have stolen assets cannot...
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Determinants of Value-Added Tax Revenues
Bogetic, Zeljko - 2011
An early cross-country, empirical analysis of value-added tax revenues on a sample of 34 countries estimates a model that can be used to predict revenues in countries contemplating the introduction of the VAT. It also confirms conventional wisdom from theoretical and case studies. The key...
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Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment : China Versus the Rest of the World
Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2013
Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China's institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China's paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that...
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Income Diversification in Zimbabwe : Welfare Implications from Urban and Rural Areas
Ersado, Lire - 2016
diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national …
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Zimbabwe's Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective
Pushak, Nataliya - 2017
less than half a percentage point to Zimbabwe's improved per capita growth performance in recent years. Raising the country …. Zimbabwe made significant progress in infrastructure in its early period as an independent state, building a national … political turmoil in the late 1990s. Zimbabwe now faces a number of important infrastructure challenges, the most pressing of …
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Reforming Village-Level Governance Via Horizontal Pressure : Evidence from an Experiment in Zimbabwe
Baldwin, Kate - 2017
effectively. The study analyzes an experimental intervention in Zimbabwe intended to reduce abuse of power by village heads …
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Informality, Harassment, and Corruption : Evidence from Informal Enterprise Data from Harare, Zimbabwe
Francis, David C. - 2019
New representative survey data for Harare, Zimbabwe are used to analyze the conditions under which informal businesses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865461
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Institutions and Labor Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Fox, Louise - 2016
The authors use firm-level survey data from the manufacturing sector in 20 Sub-Saharan African countries to explore the links between labor market regulations and net job creation. A first look at firm characteristics, perceptions, and the dynamics of employment at the firm level suggests that...
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