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Patient Satisfaction, Doctor Effort, and Interview Location : Evidence from Paraguay
Das, Jishnu - 2016
To examine the relationship between patient satisfaction and doctor performance, the authors observed 2,271 interactions between 292 doctors and their patients in 98 clinics and hospitals in Paraguay and conducted an exit-survey with the same patients as they left the clinic. For a subsample of...
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Sweetening the Carrot : Motivating Public Physicians for Better Performance
Garcia-Prado, Ariadna - 2006
It is widely observed that many physicians working in public health facilities do not put in the required effort and … time in their jobs. At the same time, many public physicians remain highly motivated, working long hours for little … improve the inoptimal performance of some physicians without compromising the effort of those already motivated. This paper …
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Assessing the Effect of Public Capital on Growth : An Extension of the World Bank Long-Term Growth Model
Devadas, Sharmila - 2018
To analyze the effect of an increase in the quantity or quality of public investment on growth, this paper extends the World Bank?s Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM), by separating the total capital stock into public and private portions, with the former adjusted for its quality. The paper presents...
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Understanding Economic Growth in Ghana in Comparative Perspective
Geiger, Michael Tobias - 2019
Ghana has experienced a decade of solid and exceptionally high growth. Between 2005 and 2015, income nearly doubled. This paper analyzes the factors driving this impressive growth performance, using tools such as structural change decompositions and growth regressions. For the comparative...
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Korea's Growth Experience and Long-Term Growth Model
Jeong, Hyeok - 2017
This paper analyzes the Republic of Korea's rapid and sustained growth experience for the past six decades from the perspective of the neoclassical growth model (the workhorse model of the World Bank?s Long Term Growth Model (LTGM) project). Overall, the sources of Korea's growth were balanced...
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Ethiopia?S Growth Acceleration and How to Sustain It?Insights from a Cross-Country Regression Model
Moller, Lars Christian - 2017
Ethiopia has experienced a growth acceleration over the past decade on the back of an economic strategy emphasizing public infrastructure investment and supported by heterodox macro-financial policies. To analyze the country?s growth performance during 2000?13, the paper employs a neoclassical...
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Green Growth -- Lessons from Growth Theory
Smulders, Sjak - 2017
This paper reviews dynamic general equilibrium models in order to collect insights on the interaction between economic growth and environmental issues. The authors discuss the Ramsey model and extend it for natural resource inputs and pollution, as well as for endogenous technical change. Green...
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Agriculture, Aid and Economic Growth in Africa
McArthur, John - 2018
How can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically-indexed applied general equilibrium model that considers pathways through which aid might affect growth and structural transformation of labor markets in the context of soil nutrient...
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Love the Job... Or the Patient? Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care
Banuri, Sheheryar - 2018
A booming literature has argued that mission-based motives are a central feature of mission-oriented labor markets. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission-based motivation. Moreover, in the presence of significant task...
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Money for Nothing : The Dire Straits of Medical Practice in Delhi, India
Das, Jishnu; Hammer, Jeffrey S. - 2006
The quality of medical care received by patients varies for two reasons: Differences in doctors' competence or differences in doctors' incentives. Using medical vignettes, we evaluated competence for a sample of doctors in Delhi. One month later, we observed the same doctors in their practice....
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