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The Role of Technological Change in Green Growth
Popp, David - 2017
By reducing the costs of environmental protection, technological change is important for promoting green growth. This entails both the creation of new technologies and more widespread deployment of existing green technologies. This paper reviews the literature on environmentally friendly...
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Public Procurement and the Private Business Sector : Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Ghossein, Tania M. - 2018
The quality of the public procurement system of an economy can have far-reaching effects on the private sector. This paper empirically explores several of these effects using two rich data sets. An overall indicator of public procurement quality is created from the World Bank?s Benchmarking...
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Public Sectors in the Pacific Islands : Are They'Too Big'And Do They'Crowd Out'The Private Sector?
Horscroft, Virginia - 2017
Public sectors in the Pacific Islands are frequently described as being' too big' and as' crowding out' private sector economic activity. Reducing their size, it follows, would provide much-needed space for private sector expansion and result in higher levels of economic growth. This paper...
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State Ownership - A Residual Role?
Perotti, Enrico C. - 2017
to avoid regulatory capture, and the capture of the privatization process itself. In addition, the speed of transfer …
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Governance in State-Owned Enterprises Revisited : The Cases of Water and Electricity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Andres, Luis Alberto - 2017
This paper studies the governance structure of state-owned enterprises in the water and electricity sectors of Latin America and the Caribbean. Through a unique dataset, the paper compares 44 leading state companies of the region based on an aggregate measure of corporate governance and six...
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Utilities Reforms and Corruption in Developing Countries
Estache, Antonio - 2016
This paper shows empirically that privatization in the energy, telecommunications, and water sectors, and the … privatization and the introduction of independent regulators have, at best, only partial effects on the consequences of corruption …
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Infrastructure and Public Utilities Privatization in Developing Countries
Auriol, Emmanuelle - 2016
The paper analyzes governments' tradeoff between fiscal benefits and consumer surplus in privatization reforms of … noncompetitive industries in developing countries. Under privatization, the control rights are transferred to private interests so … developing countries, tight budget constraints imply that privatization may be optimal for low profitability segments. For highly …
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The Dynamics of Development : Innovation and Reallocation
Buera, Francisco J. - 2019
This paper proposes a quantitative model of firm dynamics with endogenous innovation to study growth acceleration episodes triggered by reforms. The authors find that reforms removing barriers to firm entry lead to persistent growth in TFP and declining average firm size, as in the experience of...
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Will Digital Technologies Transform Agriculture in Developing Countries?
Deichmann, Uwe - 2017
Mobile phones and the internet have significantly affected practically all sectors of the economy, and agriculture is no exception. Building on a recent World Bank flagship report, this paper introduces a concise framework for describing the main benefits from new information and communications...
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Why are Developing Countries so Slow in Adopting New Technologies? The Aggregate and Complementary Impact of Micro Distortions
Bergoeing, Raphael - 2017
This paper explores how developmental and regulatory impediments to resource reallocation limit the ability of developing countries to adopt new technologies. An efficient economy innovates quickly; but when the economy is unable to redeploy resources away from inefficient uses, technological...
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