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Compensation, Diversity and Inclusion at the World Bank Group

Das, Jishnu - 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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Institutional Obstacles to Doing Business : Region-by-Region Results from a Worldwide Survey of the Private Sector

BRUNETTI, AYMO AART OLIVER - 2017

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Export Promotion Agencies : What Works and What Doesn't

Lederman, Daniel - 2016

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. Partly in reaction to these critiques, EPAs have been...

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Institutional and Structural Determinants of Investment Worldwide

Lim, Jamus Jerome - 2017

This paper considers institutional and structural factors associated with investment activity in a panel of up to 129 developed and developing countries. It introduces these factors to a standard neoclassical investment function for open economies, and find that financial development and...

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Are Natural Resources Cursed? An Investigation of the Dynamic Effects of Resource Dependence on Institutional Quality

De Rosa, Donato - 2017

This paper examines whether natural resource dependence has a negative influence on various indicators of institutional quality when controlling for the potential effects of other geographic, economic and cultural initial conditions. Analysis of a panel of countries from 1996 to 2010 indicates...

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'Red Flags of Corruption'In World Bank Projects : An Analysis of Infrastructure Contracts

Kenny, Charles - 2017

failure. The paper examines project documentation from a small sample of World Bank water and sanitation projects in an …

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Beyond Capital : Monitoring Development Outcomes of Multinational Enterprises

Lejarraga, Iza - 2018

and 10 areas that matter for development. Building on decade-long data collection by the World Bank Enterprise Surveys …

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

Devarajan, Shantayanan - 2017

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 - 2017

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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Unbundling Institutions for External Finance : Worldwide Firm-Level Evidence

Knack, Stephen F. - 2017

The empirical literature on institutions and development has been challenged on grounds of reverse causality, measurement error in institutional indicators, and heterogeneity. This paper uses firm-level data across countries to confront these challenges. Instead of analyzing ultimate outcomes,...

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