Author: Philip Musgrove
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Category : Consumption (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Author: Philip Musgrove
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Category : Consumption (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Author: George Psacharopoulos
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821338315
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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"Highly empirical analysis documents increase in poverty and worsening of income distribution during 1980s. Demonstrates that low levels of education increase incidence of poverty and income inequality. Data provided for individual countries. Valuable data reference source"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Author: Lee R. Martin
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816619429
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1080

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Author: Steven Howes
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821338629
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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World Bank Discussion Paper No. 356. The World Bank has become the world's largest lender in the health, nutrition, and population (HNP) sectors, requiring the institution to seek ever greater evidence that its work is effective on the ground. This paper reviews the literature on the causes of observed changes in health and fertility levels, on the evaluation of policies, and on programs designed to accelerate these changes. It presents a framework that delineates the relationships between Bank activities in the HNP sectors, the characteristics of a health care system, household behavior, and changes in health outcomes. The paper also describes a strategy for assessing the development effectiveness of the Bank's work in these sectors. The underlying thesis is that changes in health policy and improved outcomes depend on the the demand for health services and on institutional incentives that drive health care system performance.

Author: Raylynn Oliver
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821339343
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Living Standards Measurement Survey Working Paper No. 130.This document presents a set of Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) questionnaires that have been developed for use in the Russian-speaking countries of the former Soviet Union. The questionnaires are available in English and Russian, as well as in an electronic format. The document describes in detail how to modify the questionnaires for use in any specific country. The author guides the questionnaire writer through the modification process, illustrating the important aspects of LSMS surveys, the translation and field-testing procedures, and a section-by-section description of the types of modification that are likely to be required to suit particular goals and circumstances.Also available in Russian : (ISBN 0-8213-3935-4) / Stock No. 13935

Author: Angus Deaton
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821349908
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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In September 2001, staff from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund met with the objective of strengthening collaboration between the two organizations in projects of civil service reform. This strengthened collaboration will have key benefits in ensuring consistency between the conflicting goals of the two organizations, establishing realistic objectives within the reform process, and maintaining a core set of wage and employment data. The principal conclusion arrived at was that World Bank and IMF staff should be engaging in collaboration earlier in the reform process. To guide the collaboration, six foundations were identified. These include: develop a medium-term fiscal framework; foster national ownership by making reforms politically feasible; focus and streamline conditionality; agree on sequencing and timing of reforms; and strengthen data collection. These principals will be tested for effectiveness in several focus countries.

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Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Author: Hiroshi Sato
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134303068
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Although the Chinese economy is growing at a very high rate, there are massive social dislocations arising as a result of economic restructuring. Though the scale of the problem is huge, very few studies have examined the changes in income inequality in the late 1990s due to a lack of data on household incomes. Based on extensive original research, this book redresses this imbalance, examining the issue of unemployment and the problems it has brought for the people of China. Investigating the market outcomes in post-reform urban China, the book focuses on the relationships between unemployment, inequality, and poverty. In addition, the authors provide an analysis on the emerging urban labour market and its stratified structure, job mobility, profit sharing, and the role of social capital. Empirical analysis is supported by rich data from nationally representative urban household and rural migrant surveys, providing the latest picture of the widening inequality in Chinese urban society.

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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 888

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An interdisciplinary journal that publishes original research and surveys of current research on Latin America and the Caribbean.