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Compensation, Diversity and Inclusion at the World Bank Group

Das, Jishnu; Joubert, Clément; Tordoir, Sander Florian - 2017

This paper examines salary gaps by gender and nationality at the World Bank Group between 1987 and 2015 using a unique … three main findings. First, 76 percent of the $27,400 salary gap across the average male and female staff at the World Bank … Group can be attributed to composition effects, whereby men entered the World Bank Group at higher paid positions …

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Export Promotion Agencies : What Works and What Doesn???t

Lederman, Daniel; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Payton, Lucy - 2012

The number of national export promotion agencies (EPAs) has tripled over the past two decades. While more countries have made them part of their national export strategy, studies have criticized their efficiency in developing countries (Hogan, Keesing, and Singer 1991). Partly in reaction to...

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Corporate Governance, Investor Protection, and Performance in Emerging Markets

Klapper, Leora; Love, Inessa - 2013

Recent research studying the link between law, and finance has concentrated on country-level investor protection measures, and focused on differences in legal systems across countries, and legal families. The authors extend this literature, and provide a study of firm-level corporate governance...

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Institutions, Trade, and Growth : Revisiting the Evidence

Dollar, David; Kraay, Aart - 2003

Several recent papers have attempted to identify the partial effects of trade integration and institutional quality on long-run growth using the geographical determinants of trade and the historical determinants of institutions as instruments. The authors show that many of the specifications in...

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Financing Patterns around the World : The Role of Institutions

Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Maksimovic, Vojislav - 2002

Using a firm-level survey database covering 48 countries, the authors investigate whether differences in financial and legal development affect the way firms finance their investments. The results indicate that external financing of investments is not a function of institutions, although the...

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Public Officials and Their Institutional Environment : An Analytical Model for Assessing the Impact of Institutional Change on Public Sector Performance

Gokcekus, Omer; Manning, Nick P.; Mukherjee, Ranjana - 2000

To perform well, public officials must be confident enough about the future, to be able to see a relationship between their efforts, and an eventual outcome. Their expectations are shaped by their institutional environment. If the rules are not credible, or are unlikely to be enforced, of if...

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On "Good" Politicians and "Bad" Policies : Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth

Easterly, William; Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Woolcock, Michael - 2000

, supported by new econometric evidence, is that pro-development policies are comparatively rare in the developing world less …

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The Implications of Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the 21st Century'

Lakner, Christoph - 2016

In the 2000s, global inequality fell for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, driven by a decline in the dispersion of average incomes across countries. Between 1988 and 2008, a period of rapidly increasing global integration, income growth was largest for the global top 1 percent and...

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If Politics Is the Problem, How Can External Actors Be Part of the Solution?

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Khemani, Stuti - 2016

Despite a large body of research and evidence on the policies and institutions needed to generate growth and reduce poverty, many governments fail to adopt these policies or establish the institutions. Research advances since the 1990s have explained this syndrome, which this paper generically...

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Are Large Firms Born or Made? : Evidence from Developing Countries

Ayyagari, Meghana; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Maksimovic, Vojislav - 2015

This paper uses survey data from 120 developing countries to compare the role of institutions with firm characteristics at the time of creation of the firm in explaining the size, growth, and productivity of firms over their lifecycle. The study finds that firm-level characteristics have...

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