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The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers--Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan … corporatization. Korea's experience with a narrow benefit package shows the danger of providers shifting demand from insured services …. Experiences with diagnosis-related groups in Korea and Taiwan (China) point to cost-savings but also to possible knock-on effects …
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This paper presents early evidence from the first large-scale randomized-controlled trial of a land formalization program. The study examines the links between land demarcation and investment in rural Benin in light of a model of agricultural production under insecure tenure. The demarcation...
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This paper reports on a randomized field experiment that uses price incentives to address economic and gender inequality in land tenure formalization. During the 1990s and 2000s, nearly two dozen African countries proposed de jure land reforms extending access to formal, freehold land tenure to...
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Although transfer of agricultural land ownership through land reform had positive impacts on productivity, investment, and political empowerment in many cases, institutional arrangements in West Bengal -- which made tenancy heritable and imposed a prohibition on subleasing -- imply that early...
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This paper uses a rural household survey dataset collected in 2006 and 2008 to investigate the impact of a market-based land resettlement project in southern Malawi. The program provided a conditional cash and land transfer to poor families to relocate to larger plots of farm land. The average...
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Republic of Korea since the National Tax Service was established as an independent agency in 1966. This paper examines the Tax … economy into a cashless economy over the past decade and a half. Card payments as a ratio of Korea's gross domestic product …
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This paper reviews the Republic of Korea's experience with electronic tax invoices for its value-added tax regime from … the perspectives of tax policy makers and administrators. The paper evaluates Korea's implementation of electronic tax … mandatory. According to a survey of taxpayers and tax practitioners in Korea that was conducted as part of this research study …
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different environments. For this purpose, two countries were selected, the Republic of Korea and Uganda. From these study cases …
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of 700 firms from four emerging (or newly-emerged) economies: Brazil, India, the Republic of Korea, and South Africa. The …
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for the Republic of Korea's small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs. Their report draws on a survey of …-automation products (40 firms). Although Korea has a dense network of public technology-support institutions, Korean SMEs tend to turn to …
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