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Prioritizing Infrastructure Investment : A Framework for Government Decision Making

Marcelo, Darwin - 2017

Governments must decide how to allocate limited resources for infrastructure development, particularly since financing gaps have been projected for the coming decades. Social cost-benefit analysis provides sound project appraisal and, when systematically applied, a basis for prioritization. In...

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One More Time : What are Institutions and How Do They Change?

Islam, Roumeen - 2018

This paper defines institutions, presents their basic characteristics, and discusses forces for institutional change. It draws on a wealth of research and study by scholars in different fields and follows from the flagship 2002 World Development Report on this topic, including relevant new...

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Sharing the Benefits of Innovation-Digitization : A Summary of Market Processes and Policy Suggestions

Islam, Roumeen - 2018

Governments play a very important role in supporting innovation, managing the disruptive effects of innovation, and ensuring that the benefits of innovation are broadly shared in the long run. This paper reviews the literature on market mechanisms that translate innovation into jobs and policies...

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Can Political Empowerment Help Economic Empowerment? Women Leaders and Female Labor Force Participation in India

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

This study examines whether political empowerment of women affects their economic participation. In the context of mandated political representation reform for women in India, the study finds that the length of exposure to women politicians affects overall female labor force participation. These...

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Collective Action, Political Parties and Pro-Development Public Policy

Keefer, Philip - 2017

Broad consensus exists that the ability of political actors to make credible commitments is key to development. An important and little-explored determinant of the credibility of political commitments is the existence of organizations that facilitate citizen collective action to sanction...

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The Microfinance Business Model : Enduring Subsidy and Modest Profit

Cull, Robert J. - 2017

Recent evidence suggests only modest social and economic impacts of microfinance. Favorable cost-benefit ratios then … depend on low costs. This paper uses proprietary data on 1,335 microfinance institutions between 2005 and 2009, jointly … serving 80.1 million borrowers, to calculate the costs of microfinance and other elements of the microfinance business model …

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Commercialization and Mission Drift : Evidence from a Large Chinese Microfinance Institution

Jia, Xiangping - 2017

Front-line loan officers of microfinance institutions are important in acquiring information on potential borrowers and … selecting them in accordance with the microfinance institution's mission. This study uses a unique data set on loan officers and … their loan portfolios from China's largest nongovernmental organization microfinance institution to test whether officers …

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Oral Democracy and Women?S Oratory Competency in Indian Village Assemblies : A Qualitative Analysis

Sanyal, Paromita - 2017

In democracies, innovative political institutions have opened up scope for direct public participation often in the form of talk: citizens talking to the state and mutual talk among citizens on matters concerning community development. A prominent example is the Indian gram sabha, or village...

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Public Good Provision in Indian Rural Areas : The Returns to Collective Action by Microfinance Groups

Casini, Paolo - 2017

Self-help groups (SHGs) are the most common form of microfinance in India. The authors provide evidence that SHGs …

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Estimating the Long-Run Impact of Microcredit Programs on Household Income and Net Worth

Woutersen, Tiemen - 2017

This paper investigates whether the utilization of microcredit programs has a significant impact on the income and net worth of the participants. Several micro finance institutes are optimistic on the beneficial effects of microcredit programs. Others describe microcredit with interest rates in...

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