"Single-Shift" schools (Turno Unico), extends the time students spend in municipal schools and seeks to improve the quality of … education provision by creating a diverse curriculum for the use of the extra time in school. Unlike the model prevalent in most … provide education in a format in which students attend a seven-hour daily shift. A subset of Single-Shift schools was …

, a significant share of students in low- and middle-income countries are still not able to read, write, or do basic …

This study investigates how government ideology matters for the success of World Bank economic policy loans, which … orientation. This result is robust to changes in the sample, alternative measures of ideology, different estimation techniques and …

This paper takes a first look at the trade effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative, also referred to as the New …

development in China, as it has in countries with higher levels of private sector development …

This paper assesses the impact of the rise of China on the trade of Latin American and Caribbean economies. The study …, Honduras, Mexico, and Paraguay. The paper uses the index and a model of labor mobility, to calculate the impact of China …'s growth on labor markets in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. The resulting evidence suggests that the rise of China has had …

This study analyzes the potential impacts of a national emission trading scheme on provincial economies in China of … meeting China's emission reduction pledges, the Nationally Determined Contributions announced under the Paris Agreement. The … with the latest provincial-level social accounting matrices (2012). The study shows that meeting China's Nationally …

-down model with a bottom-up engineering model for the energy sector. The study uses meeting China's pledges under the Paris …

This paper examines China?s rural minimum living standard guarantee (dibao) program, one of the largest minimum income …

China's government economic stimulus package in 2008-09 appears to have worked well. It seems to have been about the … built into subnational fiscal mechanisms in federal countries. Moreover, China's massive fiscal stimulus played an important … particular relevance today for China, as well as other countries, in formulating policy response to another global economic …