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financial institutions (IFIs). For multilateral development banks like the World Bank, their central mission, the promotion of … growth and the reduction of poverty, is clear. The steps toward fulfilling this mission in a changing world are also … our thinking both on why we have IFIs in the first place, and the role that they should play in a changing world. …
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on education, age, income, and in particular, on some variables typically discussed when globalization issues come up …
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This paper revisits the effects of a country's institutional framework on individual firms' behavior, in particular focusing on their propensity to comply with legal rules. The theoretical model presented here suggests that these effects may be of paramount significance-contrary to the recently...
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establish better retrenchment programs. Using new data from arandom sample of 400 companies in the world, we test competing …
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This paper fills a void in the issue of determinants of privatization prices by concentrating in one industry across many countries. This has not been done before, as the literature has only focused on (i) many industries in one country, (ii) a single industry in one country, and (iii) many...
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around the world. Our empirical cross-country analysis for 91 countries during the period 1960-2000 shows that compulsory …
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to aid support through the elasticity of substitution. An empirical analysis of individual attitudes, based on the World …
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establish better retrenchment programs. Using new data from a random sample of 400 companies in the world, we test competing …
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The aim of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the link between foreign aid and income inequality for the period 1973-2002. Since simple cross-country regressions cannot be taken as `true` time series findings, we also focus on dynamic panel data techniques, which allow accounting for...
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We provide evidence on the link between infrastructure development and the distribution of income for the period 1960-1995. To do this, we use several proxies such as roads, railways, telecommunications and energy measures. The approach is comprehensive as cross-country and panel methods are...
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