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Financing Businesses in Africa : The Role of Microfinance
Aggarwal, Shilpa - 2017
This paper evaluates how microfinance performed in providing business financing in 27 Sub-Saharan African countries. It …
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Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets : Evidence from Firm Surveys in 88 Developing Countries
Knack, Stephen - 2017
There is relatively little systematic evidence on the links between procurement systems and outcomes such as competition and corruption levels. This paper adds to the evidence base, using data on almost 34,000 firms from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, in 88 countries that also have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954322
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Governance of Securities Regulators : A Framework
Pratt, Richard - 2017
This paper reviews the published work on the governance of regulatory authorities in order to identify the basic governance standards that apply and some of the factors that affect the implementation of good governance. There are four pillars of good regulatory governance: independence,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973431
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Governance in Health Care Delivery : Raising Performance
Lewis, Maureen - 2016
The impacts of health care investments in developing and transition countries are typically measured by inputs and general health outcomes. Missing from the health agenda are measures of performance that reflect whether health systems are meeting their objectives; public resources are being used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009094
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What Does Debt Relief Do for Development? Evidence from India's Bailout Program for Highly-Indebted Rural Households
Kanz, Martin - 2017
This paper studies the impact of a large debt relief program, intended to attenuate investment constraints among highly-indebted households in rural India. It isolates the causal effect of bankruptcy-like debt relief settlements using a natural experiment arising from India's Debt Relief Program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974842
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Productivity Shocks and Repayment Behavior in Rural Credit Markets : A Framed Field Experiment
Adjognon, Guigonan Serge - 2018
Improving rural credit markets requires a good understanding of the root causes of market failures and taking necessary steps to address them. This paper investigates the role of productivity shocks in borrowers' repayment choices. Using a framed field experiment that simulated a repeated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912302
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A New Tail-Based Correlation Measure and its Application in Global Equity Markets
Liu, Jinjing - 2019
The co-dependence between assets tends to increase when the market declines. This paper develops a correlation measure … focusing on market declines using the expected shortfall (ES), referred to as the ES-implied correlation, to improve the … existing value at risk (VaR)-implied correlation. Simulations which define period-by-period true correlations show that the ES …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894654
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Strategic Information Revelation and Capital Allocation
Pedraza, Alvaro - 2017
positive correlation between the quality of managerial information and stock price informativeness. Contrary to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972929
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The Quality of Budget Execution and its Correlates
Addison, Douglas M. - 2017
What determines the quality of budget execution around the world, measured in terms of a government's ability to accurately hit its own revenue and expenditure targets? The answers could be relevant to the topics of macroeconomic stability, national development, public service delivery, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973871
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New Rural Access Index : Main Determinants and Correlation to Poverty
Iimi, Atsushi - 2017
, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. It was found that for the countries in Africa, road density …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967482