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Do Labor Statistics Depend on How and to Whom the Questions are Asked? Results from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania

Bardasi, Elena - 2017

survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent …. Significant differences are observed across survey designs with respect to different labor statistics. Labor force participation … rates, for example, vary by as much as 10 percentage points across the four survey assignments. Using a short labor module …

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Economic Growth and Crime Against Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Developing Economies

Islam, Asif - 2017

Several studies have explored the relationship between economy-level crime rates or individual-level crime and economic growth. However, few studies have examined the relationship between economic growth and crime against firms. This study uses data for about 12,000 firms in 27 developing...

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Health and Development : What Can Research Contribute?

Schiff, Maurice - 2017

This survey of the state of research on relations between health and economic development discusses first research on …

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Notes on Patents, Distortions, and Development

Wodon, Quentin T. - 2017

The idea behind patent policies is to increase the output of commercially useful innovations by creating a transitory propertyy right that allows the inventor to appropriate part of the returns from his invention. In developing countries, two types of considerations need to be addressed. First,...

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Is the New Political Economy Relevant to Developing Countries?

Lachler, Ulrich - 2017

Protectionism and industrial regulation are two topics in which the interplay of politics and economics is so strong that one wonders why the intellectual merger between the two approaches in the New Political Economy has taken so long. After describing the emergence of the state in Western...

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How Might Climate Change Affect Economic Growth in Developing Countries? A Review of the Growth Literature With a Climate Lens

Lecocq, Franck - 2016

This paper reviews the empirical and theoretical literature on economic growth to examine how the four components of the climate change bill, namely mitigation, proactive (ex ante) adaptation, reactive (ex post) adaptation, and ultimate damages of climate change affect growth, especially in...

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Finance and Economic Development : Policy Choices for Developing Countries

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2016

The empirical literature on finance and development suggests that countries with better developed financial systems experience faster economic growth. Financial development - as captured by size, depth, efficiency, and reach of financial systems - varies sharply around the world, with large...

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Linking Public Investment Programs and SPAHD Macro Models : Methodology and Application to Aid Requirements

Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2016

The authors propose a bottom up approach to link public investment programs with a class of macro models recently developed to quantify Strategy Papers for Human Development (SPAHD) in low-income countries. The methodology involves establishing constant-price projections of investment outlays...

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Policy Challenges for Emerging and Developing Economies : Lessons from the Past Decade

Ruch, Franz Ulrich - 2020

The 2009 global recession demonstrated, once again, the importance of crisis prevention as well as the critical need for preserving policy room so that emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) can act when their economies are hit by shocks. And now, with the global growth outlook still...

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"Small Miracles"-- Behavioral Insights to Improve Development Policy : World Development Report 2015

Demeritt, Allison - 2017

One of the most fruitful advances in modern economics has been the introduction of psychological realism into the model of "economic man." The World Development Report 2015 organizes the evidence about how humans actually think and make decisions into a coherent framework useful for designing...

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