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  • 1
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    Can Donor Coordination Solve the Aid Proliferation Problem ? (2010)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (12 p)
    Edition: 2010 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Rahman, Aminur Can Donor Coordination Solve the Aid Proliferation Problem ?
    Abstract: The paper augments Holmstrom’s (1982) team production model in the context of aid effectiveness. The analysis shows how donor proliferation leads to inefficient supply of aid in the recipient country because of the free-riding problem faced by the donors. The empirical findings support the theoretical prediction with regard to donor proliferation. However, this raises the question whether the current efforts in the international aid community with regard to donor coordination can in fact solve the aid proliferation problem
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-5251
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    Does a Wife's Bargaining Power Provide More Micronutrients to Females : Evidence from Rural Bangladesh (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (48 p)
    Edition: 2013 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Rahman, Aminur Does a Wife's Bargaining Power Provide More Micronutrients to Females
    Abstract: Using calories in a unitary framework, previous literature has claimed lack of gender inequality in intrahousehold food distribution. This paper finds that while there is lack of gender disparity in the calorie adequacy ratio, the disparity is prominent among children, adolescents, and adults for a number of critical nutrients. Pregnant and lactating women also receive much less of most of these nutrients compared with their requirements. A wife's bargaining power (proxied by assets at marriage), as opposed to her husband's, significantly and positively affects the nutrient allocations of children and adolescents and of adult females. The bargaining effects remain significant after controlling for unobserved household characteristics and the potential nutrition-health-labor market linkage. The findings, which have important policy implications for the growing problem of micronutrient malnutrition in the developing world, also imply that perhaps the nutrition-health-labor market linkage as a key explanation for intrahousehold food distribution has been overemphasized in the previous literature
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6363
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    Investment Climate Reforms and Job Creation in Developing Countries : What Do We Know and What Should We Do? (2014)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (41 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Rahman, Aminur Investment Climate Reforms and Job Creation in Developing Countries
    Abstract: This paper reviews the literature on the role of the investment climate reforms in job creation. It finds that the current landscape of employment and private sector activity in developing countries indicates a number of potential channels through which investment climate reforms can positively affect job creation. However, rigorous empirical evidence is scarce and most of the relevant studies focus on business entry reforms with a few focusing on business taxation and investment promotion activities. Overall, there is evidence of job creation through business entry, tax reforms, and investment promotion activity in developing countries. Almost all of these evidences are from quasi-experimental studies that are significant improvements over conventional cross-country or cross-section panel data analysis. Still, various endogeneity concerns in these studies cannot be ruled out completely. In assessing job effects, future research should provide deeper insights on the gross versus net and short-run versus long-run job effects and general equilibrium effects of various investment climate reforms related to jobs, productivity, competition, and other developmental outcomes. Another critical agenda for future research is to shed light on which investment climate reforms matter most for spurring the employment and productivity growth of firms in developing countries. The World Bank Group, in partnership with development partners and client government countries, can play a significant role in bridging the current knowledge gap by integrating rigorous evaluation as an integral part of project design and implementation, and improving data quality, particularly through its information and communication technologies-led private sector development reform initiatives
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7025
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    Small Firms' Formalization: The Stick Treatment (2015)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (35 p)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als De Giorgi, Giacomo Small Firms' Formalization: The Stick Treatment
    Abstract: Finance and Financial Sector Development
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7318
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    The Private Sector amid Conflict : The Case of Libya (2020)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (90 pages)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: International Development in Focus
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    Abstract: Libya's economic stability should be a priority for the international community. Although the private sector is an integral part of the Libyan economy, limited systematic information is available on how the prolonged conflict in Libya affected the private sector and the implications for a postconflict recovery. Using original survey data, The Private Sector amid Conflict aims to fill this gap by analyzing how the private sector has coped with the conflict and examining resilience and postconflict optimism. The conflict has profoundly affected the Libyan private sector. The conflict-induced macroeconomic crisis has generated a liquidity crisis, weakening the banking sector. Firms' revenues, jobs,and production have been reduced and value chains have been disrupted. The conflict has distorted the business environment, undermining the rule of law, reducing accountability, and affecting service delivery. Not all fi rms have been negatively affected, however. The conflict-induced changes to competition, access to inputs and markets, innovations, and informal activities tend to affect different types of fi rms differently. Overall, the private sector shows signs of resilience and optimism for a postconflict recovery. The analysis in the book draws on novel data and other conflict experiences. The results presented offer suggestions for policy actions to address private sector constraints amid conflict and in the postconflict era
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1644-4
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    Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients (2004)
    Washington, D.C : World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive Also available in print
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3186
    Parallel Title: Knack, Stephen F Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients
    Keywords: Altruism ; Bureaucracy ; Civil service ; Economic assistance ; Altruism ; Bureaucracy ; Civil service ; Economic assistance
    Note: "January 15, 2004 , Includes bibliographical references , Title from title screen as viewed on January 16, 2004 , Also available in print.
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    Heard Melodies Are Sweet, But Those Unheard Are Sweeter : Understanding Corruption Using Cross-National Firm-Level Surveys (2007)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (32 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Jensen, Nathan M Heard Melodies Are Sweet, But Those Unheard Are Sweeter
    Keywords: Bribery ; Corruption ; Embezzlement ; Environment ; Environmental Economics and Policies ; Government Officials ; Kickbacks ; Microfinance ; Nepotism ; Poverty Monitoring and Analysis ; Poverty Reduction ; Private Gains ; Procurement ; Public Officials ; Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures ; Social Accountability ; Social Development ; Transparency ; Bribery ; Corruption ; Embezzlement ; Environment ; Environmental Economics and Policies ; Government Officials ; Kickbacks ; Microfinance ; Nepotism ; Poverty Monitoring and Analysis ; Poverty Reduction ; Private Gains ; Procurement ; Public Officials ; Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures ; Social Accountability ; Social Development ; Transparency ; Bribery ; Corruption ; Embezzlement ; Environment ; Environmental Economics and Policies ; Government Officials ; Kickbacks ; Microfinance ; Nepotism ; Poverty Monitoring and Analysis ; Poverty Reduction ; Private Gains ; Procurement ; Public Officials ; Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures ; Social Accountability ; Social Development ; Transparency
    Abstract: Since the early 1990s, a large number of studies have been undertaken to understand the causes and consequences of corruption. Many of these studies have employed firm-level survey data from various countries. While insightful, these analyses based on firm-level surveys have largely ignored two important potential problems: nonresponse and false response by the firms. Treating firms' responses on a sensitive issue like corruption at their face value could produce incorrect inferences and erroneous policy recommendations. We argue that the data generation of nonresponse and false response is a function of the political environment in which the firms operate. In a politically repressive environment, firms use nonresponse and false response as self-protection mechanisms. Corruption is understated as a result. We test our arguments using the World Bank enterprise survey data of more than 44,000 firms in 72 countries for the period 2000-2005 and find that firms in countries with less press freedom are more likely to provide nonresponse or false response on the issue of corruption. Therefore, ignoring this systematic bias in firms' responses could result in underestimation of the severity of corruption in politically repressive countries. More important, this bias is a rich and underutilized source of information on the political constraints faced by the firms. Nonresponse and false response, like unheard melodies, could be more informative than the heard melodies in the available truthful responses in firm surveys
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    The Silence of Corruption : Identifying Underreporting of Business Corruption through Randomized Response Techniques (2011)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (36 p)
    Edition: 2011 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Jensen, Nathan M The Silence of Corruption
    Abstract: Research on the economic consequences of corruption has been hampered by the inability to directly measure corruption. Using an innovative methodology that allows respondents to report individual experiences with corruption while minimizing self-incrimination and an objective diagnostic to evaluate lying (false responses), this paper explores the extent of business corruption in Bangladesh. The analysis shows that traditional measures of corruption underreport the extent of business corruption in Bangladesh and existing strategies to evaluate and elicit truthful responses have limited effectiveness. The authors identify the types of firms that are associated with false responses and nonresponses to survey questions on corruption
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-5696
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    Estimating the effects of corruption : implications for Bangladesh (2000)
    Washington, DC : World Bank, South Asia Region, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector Unit
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive Also available in print
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 2479
    Parallel Title: Rahman, Aminur Estimating the effects of corruption
    Keywords: Investments ; Investments, Foreign ; Political corruption ; Investments ; Investments, Foreign ; Political corruption
    Abstract: Countries that are serious about reducing corruption tend to attract more investment, both domestic and foreign, and to accelerate economic growth and poverty reduction
    Note: "November 2000"--Cover , Includes bibliographical references (p. 24-25) , Title from title screen as viewed on Oct. 03, 2002 , Also available in print.
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    SME Registration Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (14 p)
    Edition: 2013 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: De Giorgi, Giacomo SME Registration Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh
    Abstract: Informality is pervasive in developing countries. In Bangladesh, the majority of firms are informal and as such they might not have access to prime markets, while lowering the tax base. The authors implemented an information campaign on registration, including both the step-by-step procedures and the potential benefits from registration. They find that the treatment made firms more aware of the procedures, but had no impact on actual registration. The results point toward potentially low benefits and high indirect costs of registration as the main barriers to formality (e.g. access to markets, taxation, labor and product regulations)
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6382
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