1.
Small and Medium Enterprises, Growth, and Poverty: Cross-Country Evidence
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3178
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Development Research Group, City University London - Sir John Cass Business School and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Direct Support to Private Firms: Evidence on Effectiveness
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3170
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN and World Bank
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388
3.
Banking in Developing Countries in the 1990s
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3168
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank
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372
4.
On the Measurement of Solvency of Insurance Companies: Recent Developments that Will Alter Methods Adopted in Emerging Markets
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3199
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN
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347
5.
Combining Insurance, Contingent Debt, and Self-Retention in an Optimal Corporate Risk Financing Strategy
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3167
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank and World Bank - Financial Sector Development
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218
6.
The Use of "Asset Swaps" by Institutional Investors in South Africa
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3175
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Financial Sector Development
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202
7.
The International Finance Corporation's MBA Survey: How Developing Country Firms Rate Local Business School Training
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3182
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Lahore School of Economics - Department of Economics
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159
8.
Production and Cost Functions and Their Application to the Port Sector: A Literature Survey
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3123
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Universidad de Chile and Departamento de Analisis Economico Aplicado
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234
9.
Regional Integration and Technology Diffusion: The Case of the North America Free Trade Agreement
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3132
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and Carleton University
There are 2 versions of this paper
Regional Integration and Technology Diffusion: The Case of the North America Free Trade Agreement
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3132
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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197
Regional Integration and Technology Diffusion: The Case of the North America Free Trade Agreement
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3132
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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22
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197
10.
A Multioutput Cost Function for Port Terminals: Some Guidelines for Regulation
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3151
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Universidad de Chile and Departamento de Analisis Economico Aplicado
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150
11.
The Role of Advocacy in Competition Policy: The Case of the Argentine Gasoline Market
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3130
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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124
12.
Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Attract Foreign Direct Investment? Only a Bit And They Could Bite
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3121
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Research Department
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2,133
13.
Ownership Structure and Initial Public Offerings
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3103
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Georgetown University - Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business and World Bank
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592
14.
The Emerging Project Bond Market: Covenant Provisions and Credit Spreads
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3095
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank and American University - Department of Finance and Real Estate
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531
15.
Designing Natural Gas Distribution Concessions in a Megacity: Tradeoffs between Scale Economies and Information Disclosure in Mexico City
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2538
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Georgetown University
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140
16.
Creating Partnerships for Capacity Building in Developing Countries: The Experience of the World Bank
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3099
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank, Government of the United States of America and World Bank
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122
17.
Do More Transparent Governments Govern Better?
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3077
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank
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491
18.
Survey Techniques to Measure and Explain Corruption
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3071
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
The World Bank and Stockholm University - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)
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299
19.
The Global Growth of Mutual Funds
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3055
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank, World Bank, World Bank - Research Department and World Bank - Financial Sector Development
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774
20.
Does a Country Need a Promotion Agency to Attract Foreign Direct Investment? A Small Analytical Model Applied to 58 Countries
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3028
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS)
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641
21.
The Insurance Industry in Mauritius
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3034
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Financial Sector Development
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503
22.
Strategic Approaches to Science and Technology in Development
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3026
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank, World Bank and World Bank
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464
23.
Regulation and Private Sector Investment in Infrastructure: Evidence from Latin America
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3037
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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300
24.
The Role of Occupational Pension Funds in Mauritius
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3033
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Financial Sector Development
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222
25.
Telecommunications Reform in Malawi
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3036
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Texas A&M International University - A.R. Sanchez Jr., School of Business, World Bank and World Bank
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121
26.
Information Diffusion in International Markets
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3032
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Research Department, University of Geneva and World Bank - Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS)
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Information Diffusion in International Markets
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3032
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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91
Information Diffusion in International Markets
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3872
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 10 Jun 2003
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14
Information Diffusion in International Markets
IDB Working Paper No. 410
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 25 Apr 2011
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13
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91
27.
Tenure Security and Land-Related Investment: Evidence from Ethiopia
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2991
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Development Economics Group (DEC), Michigan State University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, World Bank and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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447
28.
An Introduction to Financial and Economic Modeling for Utility Regulators
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3001
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), MacroConsulting S.A., World Bank and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba y Macroenergía S.A.
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388
29.
Land Sales and Rental Markets in Transition: Evidence from Rural Vietnam
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3013
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Development Economics Group (DEC) and Michigan State University
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Land Sales and Rental Markets in Transition: Evidence from Rural Vietnam
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3013
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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352
Land Sales and Rental Markets in Transition: Evidence from Rural Vietnam
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 70, No. 1, pp. 67-101, February 2008
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 18 Jan 2008
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10
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352
30.
Market and Non-Market Transfers of Land in Ethiopia: Implications for Efficiency, Equity, and Non-Farm Development
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2992
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Development Economics Group (DEC), Michigan State University, Addis Ababa University, World Bank and World Bank
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318
31.
Evaluation of Financial Liberalization: A General Equilibrium Model with Constrained Occupation Choice
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3014
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and MIT - Department of Economics
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152
32.
Ways Out of Poverty: Diffusing Best Practices and Creating Capabilities - Perspectives on Policies for Poverty Reduction
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2990
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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137
33.
Options for Financing Lifelong Learning
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2994
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
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103
34.
Just-in-Case Inventories: A Cross-Country Analysis
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3012
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Finance, Private Sector and Infrastructure Sector (LCSFP) and Lehman Brothers, New York
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96
35.
Telecommunication Reform in Ghana
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2983
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN, The Ronald Coase Institute and Technology Policy Institute
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420
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From Knowledge to Wealth: Transforming Russian Science and Technology for a Modern Knowlege Economy
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2974
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Europe and Central Asia Region
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154
37.
Wage Differentials and State-Private Sector Employment Choice in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2959
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and CapAnalysis
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60
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Small- and Medium-Size Enterprise Financing in Eastern Europe
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2933
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank, IAE Business School - Universidad Austral and World Bank - Research Department
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2,655
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Industrial Ownership and Environmental Performance: Evidence from China
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2936
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Infrastructure and Environment Team and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics
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296
40.
Mexico: In-Firm Training for the Knowledge Economy
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2957
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Lead Economist and World Bank
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128
41.
Financing Patterns Around the World: The Role of Institutions
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2905
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Development Research Group, University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business and City University London - Sir John Cass Business School
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551
42.
Financial Regulatory Harmonization and the Globalization of Finance
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2919
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Melbourne Law School and World Bank
There are 2 versions of this paper
Financial Regulatory Harmonization and the Globalization of Finance
GLOBALIZATION AND NATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEMS, James A. Hanson, Patrick Honohan and Giovanni Majnoni, eds., International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank, 2002-2003, Copyright
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 29 Jan 2003
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788
Financial Regulatory Harmonization and the Globalization of Finance
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2919
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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389
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389
43.
The Wage Labor Market and Inequality in Vietnam in the 1990s
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2896
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Portland State University
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323
44.
Economic Structure, Productivity, and Infrastructure Quality in Southern Mexico
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2900
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), World Bank, Cleveland State University - Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs and World Bank
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166
45.
Macroeconomic Effects of Private Sector Participation in Latin America's Infrastructure
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2906
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Departamento de Analisis Economico Aplicado, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales - Dept. de Análisis Económico Aplicado, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) and University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Analisis Economico Aplicado
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139
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Telecommunications Reform in Cote D'Ivoire
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2895
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Southern California - Department of Economics (Deceased) and Université de Cocody
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127
47.
The Case for International Coordination of Electricity Regulation: Evidence from the Measurement of Efficiency in South America
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2907
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), University of San Andres and University of San Andres (UMSA) - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Case for International Coordination of Electricity Regulation: Evidence from the Measurement of Efficiency in South America
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2907
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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98
The Case for International Coordination of Electricity Regulation: Evidence from the Measurement of Efficiency in South America
Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2004
Posted: 19 Jan 2009
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98
48.
Sector Organization, Governance, and the Inefficiency of African Water Utilities
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2890
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) and University of Montreal - Department of Economics
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717
49.
The Demand for Commodity Insurance by Developing Country Agricultural Producers: Theory and an Application to Cocoa in Ghana
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2887
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Faculty of Economics
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289
50.
Trends in the Education Sector from 1993-98
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2891
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank
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153
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