Author: Liesbet SteerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A Little Engine that Could
Author: Liesbet SteerLittle Engine that Could
Author: Liesbet SteerPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Vietnam's young private sector is growing fast. Crucial to this growth has been a policy environment that increasingly recognizes the importance of private entrepreneurship-particularly its potential to help address the country1s pressing need for significantly increased wage employment creation. Expanding the benefits of private sector growth beyond urban centers out into the rural areas where most Vietnamese live-and where poverty and underemployment are heaviest-will require significantly increased information flows on what is working and what is not. This paper presents an objective picture of Vietnam's emerging private sector, two years after initial implementation of the country's much praised Enterprise Law. The country's private companies are significantly better off than they were just a couple years earlier, when regional economic recession and stagnation on domestic policy reforms had brought development of the formal private sector to a near standstill. At the same time, the sector's small base means that its impressive rates of job creation still fall far short of matching the booming growth of the overall work force. Information for this paper is based on data collected from Vietnam's General Office of Statistics, a small number of individual company case studies, and a national firm-level survey designed and implemented by the authors. Research for the paper revealed significant gaps in available private sector data and flaws in current data gathering methodologies-calling into question the ability of policy makers and advisors to understand rapid, ongoing economic developments and make appropriate and timely policy decisions. The authors hope that this paper can serve as a starting point and an impetus for more targeted research aimed at identifying and addressing specific obstacles to sustainable and broad based job and wealth creation.
Environmental Performance Rating and Disclosure China's Green-watch Program
Author: Hua WangPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0210030410
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
This paper describes a new incentive-based pollution control program in China in which the environmental performance of firms is rated and reported to the public. Firms are rated from best to worst using five colors-green, blue, yellow, red, and black-and the ratings are disseminated to the public through the media. The impact has been substantial, suggesting that public disclosure provides a significant incentive for firms to improve their environmental performance. The paper focuses on the experience of the first two disclosure programs, in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province and Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. Successful implementation of these programs at two very different levels of economic and institutional development suggests that public disclosure should be feasible in most of China. The Zhenjiang and Hohhot experiences have also shown that performance disclosure can significantly reduce pollution, even in settings where environmental nongovernmental organizations are not very active and there is no formal channel for public participation in environmental regulation.
Returns to Investment in Education
Author: George PsacharopoulosPublisher:
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Category : Capital humano
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Assessing the Distributional Impact of Public Policy
Author: Boniface Essama-NssahPublisher:
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Category : Bienestar social
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Productivity Or Endowments?
Author: Hiau Looi KeePublisher:
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Category : Asia oriental
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Banking on Foreigners
Author: Maria Soledad Martinez PeriaPublisher:
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Category : Bancos extranjeros
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Policy Research Working Papers
Author: Does Liberté Equal Égalité?
Author: Mark GradsteinPublisher:
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Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Hidden Costs of Ethnic Conflict
Author: Soumya AlvaPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The authors examine the impact of ethnic segmentation in education on educational outcomes. Between 1991 and the late 1990s, the Albanian Kosovar population received education services in an informal system parallel to the official one. Using the 2000 Kosovo LSMS Survey data, the authors exploit cohort differences in exposure to the parallel system to estimate its effects among Albanian youth. The first (untreated) cohort includes individuals who entered secondary education before 1991 when the "parallel" education system was initiated. The second (treated) cohort includes individuals who entered secondary school in the last ten years under the ethnically segmented education system. To disentangle the effects of the changing system and economic environment, and the changes in the characteristics of the population, a Oaxaca-type decomposition is used. The results suggest that the past decade of ethnic tension has claimed a substantial toll on the educational outcomes of young male Albanian Kosovars. In addition to declines in enrollment rates in secondary education, those who are enrolled are expected to complete one less year of education. However, secondary school enrollment for girls increased during the parallel system, but with a sharp decline in the expected number of years completed.