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Investment climate and international integration
Taye Mengistae - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523011
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Migration, school attainment, and child labor : evidence from rural Pakistan
Mansuri, Ghazala - 2006
"Inequalities in access to education pose a significant barrier to development. It has been argued that this reflects, in part, borrowing constraints that inhibit private investment in human capital by the poor. One promise of the recent proposals to open international labor markets to allow for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522117
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Fertility response to natural disasters : the case of three high mortality earthquakes
Finlay, Jocelyn E. - 2009
earthquakes: Gujarat, India, in 2001; North-West Frontier, Pakistan, in 2005; and Izmit, Turkey, in 1999. There is evidence of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394177
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Half a world : regional inequality in five great federations
Milanovic, Branko - 2005
"The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in the five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the …/provinces in China and India. The United States, where regional inequality is the least, shows further convergence. Brazil, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522501
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The effect of male migration for work on employment patterns of females in Nepal
Lokshin, Michael - 2008
"This paper assesses the impact of work-related migration by males on the labor market behavior of females in Nepal …. Using data from the 2004 Nepal household survey, the authors apply the Instrumental Variable Full Information Maximum … argue that strategies for economic development in Nepal should take into account such gender aspects of the migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521002
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Innovative firms or innovative owners? : determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises
De Mel, Suresh J. - 2009
"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394228
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Are women more credit constrained? : experimental evidence on gender and microenterprise returns
De Mel, Suresh J. - 2008
"This paper analyzes data from a randomized experiment on mean returns to capital in Sri Lankan micro-enterprises. The findings show greater returns among men than among women; indeed, returns were not different from zero for women. The authors explore different explanations for the lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521013
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Water markets, demand, and cost recovery for piped water supply services : evidence from southwest Sri Lanka
Nauges, Celine - 2006
"In many countries water supply is a service that is seriously underpriced, especially for residential consumers. This has led to a call for setting cost recovery policies to ensure that the tariffs charged for water supply cover the full cost of providing for the service. Yet, the question...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522121
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The use of willingness to pay experiments : estimating demand for piped water connections in Sri Lanka
Van Houtven, George (contributor) - 2006
"The authors show how willingness to pay surveys can be used to gauge household demand for improved network water and sanitation services. They do this by presenting a case-study from Sri Lanka, where they surveyed approximately 1,800 households in 2003. Using multivariate regression, they show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522242
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Unpackaging demand for water service quality : evidence from conjoint surveys in Sri Lanka
Jones, Kelly (contributor) - 2006
"In the early 2000s, the Government of Sri Lanka considered engaging private sector operators to manage water and sewerage services in two separate service areas: one in the town of Negombo (north of Colombo), and one stretching along the coastal strip (south from Colombo) from the towns of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522243