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Capacity Building in Economics : Education and Research in Transition Economies

Pleskovič, Boris; Åslund, Anders; Bader, William - 2013

The development of the institutional capacity to create and evaluate economic policies remains a critical need-and constraint-in most transition economies if they are to complete the successful passage to fully functioning market economies. To take an active role in the transition process,...

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Special Study on Benchmarking the Quality of Project Economic Analysis for the South Asia Region

Ezemenari, Kenechukwu Maria; Ye, Xiao - 2017

This paper benchmarks the quality of project economic analysis in South Asia against other World Bank regions, using data on project exits between 1975 and 2015. The results show that the South Asia region performs on par with the other regions, in that the share of project documents that report...

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Markets and Manipulation : Time for a Paradigm Shift?

Basu, Kaushik - 2016

There is a growing appreciation in economics that people have emotional vulnerabilities, commitments to social norms, and systematic irrationalities, which impact their decision making and choice in the marketplace. The flip side of this is that human beings are susceptible to being manipulated...

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Conducting Ethical Economic Research : Complications from the Field

Alderman, Harold; Das, Jishnu; Rao, Vijayendra - 2013

This essay discusses practical issues confronted when conducting surveys as well as designing appropriate field trials. First, it looks at the challenge of ensuring transparency while maintaining confidentiality. Second, it explores the role of trust in light of asymmetric information held by...

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Businesses of the State in Brazil

Brolhato, Sara; Cirera, Xavier; Martins-Neto, Antonio - 2025

impacts on the economy. This paper uses a novel dataset that allows exploring the importance of BOS in Brazil, including … employment. The findings indicate that BOS firms pay a substantial wage premium in Brazil and that privatization events lead to a …

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Beyond Oaxaca-Blinder : Accounting for Differences in Household Income Distributions Across Countries

Bourguignon, François; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; … - 2013

Brazilian income distribution and those of Mexico and the United States, and find that most of Brazil's excess income inequality …

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The Dynamics of Poverty and its Determinants : The Case of the Northeast of Brazil and its States

Fiess, Norbert M.; Verner, Dorte - 2013

In the northeast region of Brazil, the poverty picture of the past two decades reveals large fluctuations in the …

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Making the Poor Count Takes More than Counting the Poor : A Quick Poverty Assessment of the State of Bahia, Brazil

Verner, Dorte - 2013

The state of Bahia, Brazil has made progress in reducing poverty and improving social indicators in the past decade …. Despite this progress, Bahia's poverty is among the highest and its social indicators are among the lowest in Brazil … living in Bahia does not by itself affect the probability of falling below the poverty line in Brazil. Hence, other …

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Youth at Risk, Social Exclusion, and Intergenerational Poverty Dynamics : A New Survey Instrument with Application to Brazil

Verner, Dorte; Alda, Erik - 2013

data gathered in three poor urban neighborhoods in Fortaleza in Northeast Brazil. Their main findings show that: (i) Poor …

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The Home as Factory Floor : Employment and Remuneration of Home-Based Workers

Cunningham, Wendy V.; Gomez, Carlos Ramos - 2013

, in their analysis and examine the home-based work sector in Brazil, Ecuador, and Mexico in 1999. Their results show that …

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