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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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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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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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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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Water When it Counts : Reducing Scarcity Through Irrigation Monitoring in Central Mozambique
Christian, Paul - 2018
Management of common-pool resources in the absence of individual pricing can lead to suboptimal allocation. In the context of irrigation schemes, this can create water scarcity even when there is sufficient water to meet the total requirements. High-frequency data from three irrigation schemes...
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Survival of Firms During Economic Crisis
Bosio, Erica - 2020
corroborated in the data, as potential exit is not predicated on the size of firms, their age, or their productivity …
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Gender Differences in Agricultural Productivity in Cote D'Ivoire : Changes in Determinants and Distributional Composition Over the Past Decade
Donald, Aletheia Amalia - 2020
This paper analyzes changes in agricultural productivity gender gaps in C?te d'Ivoire between 2008 and 2016 using …, but it is particularly remarkable for export crop productivity, likely due to increased adoption of fertilizer and …
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Firms Far Up : Productivity, Agglomeration, and High-Growth Firms in Ethiopia
Goswami, Arti Grover - 2020
tight link between exemplary performance and initial plant productivity, which is robust to many controls, including plant … associated with subsequent growth in firm productivity …
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Mexico : Human Capital Effects on Wages and Productivity
Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys - 2006
The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity … differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …
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