, and using health workforce data (1990-2013) for 165 countries from the World Health Organization's Global Health … estimated by the World Health Organization to achieve essential health coverage. The model predicts that by 2030 global demand …

As the world approaches the target year of the Millennium Development Goals and passes into the new, post-2015 era, the … feasible is that? For most of the developing world, the goal seems ambitious, yet achievable -- but what about the prospects … scenario produces a forecast of a 20 percent extreme poverty rate for this group of countries. The paper then explores the …

relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the …

Gender disparities in small and medium-size enterprise lending exist around the world and impede the growth of millions … bias is measured through a novel loan application experiment conducted with 77 loan officers in Turkish banks. The analysis …,000 lower on average compared with men. Experience in the banking sector can attenuate this bias, with each year of experience …

coefficient, the most widely used measure, is severely biased downward in coresident samples. But the bias in intergenerational …

This study analyzes the extent of downward bias in the calculation of inequality of opportunity for continuous outcomes … such as income. A typically recognized source of bias is the unobserved circumstances as there is a limited set of … levels, the study presents three key findings. First, the omission of a relevant circumstance can bias the inequality of …

corruption complementing the corruption perception index by Transparency International. The paper explores this using the World … relate them to measures of bureaucratic complexity from the World Bank's Doing Business data, finding that more red tape is …

evidence shows that rank-based measures are less affected by measurement error and life-cycle bias compared with other standard … average bias in rank correlation is less than half of that in intergenerational regression coefficient, and comparable to that … in intergenerational correlation in magnitude. The intercept estimates are biased upward, with the largest bias found in …