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  • 1
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137440976
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (125 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Vieten, U Revisiting Iris Marion Young on Normalisation, Inclusion and Democracy
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Politics and culture ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Keeping Young's Legacy Alive: Why Does Understanding Normalisation Matter to Difference, Democracy and Inclusion? -- Contextualising Iris Marion Young's legacy -- Thinking about the matter of societal crisis: de-normalising normative structures and habits -- Sketch of the following five chapters -- 1 Why Should We Think of Structural Injustice when Speaking about Culture? -- 2 Communicative Democracy and Solidarity Across Racial and Sexual Differences -- 3 Routed Connections in Late Modern Times -- 4 Just Causes, Unruly Social Relations. Universalist-Inclusive Ideals and Dutch Political Realities -- 5 Diversity Politics and the Politics of Difference -- Index
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781137348593
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (131 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Relaño Pastor, Ana Maria Shame and Pride in Narrative : Mexican Women's Language Experiences at the U.S.-Mexico Border
    DDC: 305.48687207644
    Keywords: Migration ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book analyzes personal experiences of language through the voices of Mexican immigrant women, in relation to the racialization discourses that frame the social life of Mexican immigrant communities in the United States. It reveals the power of narrative, understood as a social practice, to validate and give meaning to people's lives.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Transcription Conventions -- 1 Mexicalifornia: Mexican Immigrant Women at the Tijuana-San Diego Border -- 1.1 Crossing language boundaries -- 1.2 Language ideologies and linguistic settlement -- 1.3 Doing fieldwork so far from and so close to the border -- 1.4 Synopsis of chapters -- 2 Narrating Language Experiences -- 2. 1 Making sense: narrative as social practice -- 2.2 Performance in narrative -- 2.3 Narratives in interactive interviews -- 2.4 Narrative multidimensionality -- 2.5 Moral agency in narrative -- 3 Mexicanas at La Clase Mágica -- 3.1 La Clase Mágica: building and empowering communities of practice -- 3.2 Interviewing Mexican women -- 3.3 Eliciting and transcribing narratives -- 3.4 Data selection -- 4 Racialization in Narratives of Language Experiences -- 4.1 Racial categorization and racializing discourses -- 4.2 Racialization as language conflict(s) -- 4.3 The emotional map of racialization -- 5 Shame and Pride: Defendiéndose in Narrative -- 5.1 Constructed dialogues of language experiences -- 5.2 Emotional devices -- 5.3 Moral stances: resistance and resolution -- 5.4 Doing shame and pride -- 6 Conclusions: Narrative Revelations -- 6.1 Revealing emotional experience -- 6.2 Multirevelations in narrative dimensions -- 6.3 Moral lessons revealed -- 6.4 Remaining revelations -- Appendix I: Interview Log -- References -- Index.
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137403759
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (107 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Yar, M Crime, Deviance and Doping : Fallen Sports Stars, Autobiography and the Management of Stigma
    DDC: 306.4830922
    Keywords: Communication ; Electronic books ; Sportler ; Doping ; Biografie
    Abstract: Yar examines the autobiographies of fallen sports stars, exploring their fall from grace and the stigma it entails. Drawing upon sociological and criminological perspectives, it illuminates how fallen stars use confessional acts of story-telling to seek forgiveness, vindication and redemption.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on the Author -- 1 Introduction - Sports Celebrities, Doping and Narratives of Deviance -- 2 Framing Narratives of Doping and Disgrace -- 3 Beginnings -- 4 Initiation -- 5 Commitment -- 6 Exposure -- 7 Resolution -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137394224
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (147 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Sunier, Thijl Transnational Turkish Islam
    DDC: 297.09561
    Keywords: History, Modern ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Transnational Turkish Islam provides an overview of Turkish organized Islam in seven European countries. It shows how Turkish Islamic organizations have developed from typical migrant associations in the 1970s and 1980s into present-day European Islamic associations with their own cultural and religious specificities and agendas.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Islam and Politics in Turkey -- Introduction -- Stage 1 (1923-1945) -- Stage 2 (1946-1979) -- Stage 3 (1980-2002) -- Stage 4 (2003-present) -- 2 Turkish Organized Islam in Europe -- Introduction -- Turkish migration to Europe -- Political culture, legal arrangements, and the Islamization of migrants -- Organizational development: Turkish Islam -- 3 Diyanet -- Introduction -- Origins -- To Europe -- Organizational dimensions -- Worldviews, goals, and agendas -- 4 Süleymanlıs -- Introduction -- Origins -- To Europe -- Organizational dimensions -- Worldviews, goals, and agendas -- 5 Milli Görüş -- Introduction -- Origins -- To Europe -- Organizational dimensions -- Worldviews, goals, and agendas -- 6 Gülen-movement (Hizmet) -- Introduction -- Origins -- To Europe -- Organizational dimensions -- Worldviews, goals, and agendas -- 7 Alevis -- Introduction -- Origins -- To Europe -- Organizational dimensions -- Worldviews, goals, and agendas -- 8 Other Movements and Organizations -- Nationalism and Islam -- Islamic radicalism: the Kaplan movement -- Conclusions, Dynamics, and Tendencies -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137399762
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (133 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Lenskyj, H Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics : No More Rainbows
    DDC: 306.4830947
    Keywords: Service industries ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction and Background -- 2 Russia: Sex, Demographics and LGBT Activism -- 3 Sex, Gender, Sport, Politics: Russia and the West -- 4 Nationalism, Boycotts and the Olympic Industry -- 5 Conclusion: The Olympic Industry and Putin's Russia -- Bibliography -- Index
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9781137384997
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (97 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Demography ; Demography ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book proposes a historical-conceptual journey into the cluttered social formations that have remained outside of mainstream sociology. In particular, it reviews urban crowds, mediated publics, global masses, population, the sovereign people and the multitude and addresses the question: 'What is the building block of the social?'.
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9781137392442
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (159 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version A. El-Desouky, Ayman The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture : Am?ra and the 2011 Revolution
    DDC: 306.20962
    Keywords: Solidarity--Political aspects--Egypt ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture uses the notion of amra - the Egyptian concept of collective and connective agency - to explore the relationship between the Egyptian intellectual and 'the people' in contemporary Egyptian literature and culture.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Intellectuals, Representation, Connective Agency -- Part I The Intellectual and the Quest for Amara -- 1 Amara: Concept, Cultural Practice and Aesthetic -- 2 Signature or Cartouche? Dilemmas of the Egyptian Intellectual -- Part II The People and the Amara of Connective Agency -- 3 The People Already Know: Positionality of the Intellectual, Connective Agency and Cultural Memory -- 4 The Amara on the Square: Some Reflections Post 25 January 2011 -- Postscript: Ih. na al-mas.riyyin and al-sha'b: The Untranslatabilities of Conceptual Languages -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137397362
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (158 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Maclean, K Social Urbanism and the Politics of Violence : The Medellín Miracle
    DDC: 303.6
    Keywords: Violence--Political aspects--Colombia--Medellâin ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Medellín Miracle -- 1 The Politics of Violence and Urbanism -- 2 Medellín: The Most Violent City in the World -- 3 The Miracle? Social Urbanism -- 4 Behind the Miracle -- 5 New Political Spaces -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137445933
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (157 pages)
    Series Statement: Mobility & Politics
    Series Statement: Mobility and Politics Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Pécoud, A Depoliticising Migration : Global Governance and International Migration Narratives
    DDC: 325
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration--Government policy ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editors' Foreword -- List of Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 At UNESCO -- 3 'Global Migration Governance' and the Need for Shared Narratives -- 4 Introducing International Migration Narratives -- 5 Why Read IMN? -- 6 Constructing a Federating Discourse -- 7 Ordering Migration -- 8 Depoliticising Migration -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- Index
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9781137405081
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (121 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Dixon, K The Impact of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games : Diminishing Contrasts, Increasing Varieties
    DDC: 306.48309421090512
    Keywords: Sports ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The 2012 Paralympics and Perceptions of Disability in the UK -- 3 The GB Football Team for London 2012: What's All the Fuss About? -- 4 London 2012: The Women's Games? Examining the Photographic Evidence -- 5 A Critical Examination of the London 2012 Legacy -- 6 Conclusion: Diminishing Contrasts, Increasing Varieties -- Index
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9781137316547
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (253 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in Childhood and Youth Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.14
    Keywords: Social participation.. ; Young adults.. ; Children ; Social participation.. ; Young adults.. ; Children ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and young people's participation to be transformative.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Children and Young People's Participation in Collective Decision-making -- Origins of the cross-country network -- Children and young people's participation -- Subsequent chapters -- Note on terminology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Reflections on Participation and Its Link with Transformative Processes -- Introduction -- The power of language -- A brief history of participation -- Exploring connections between participation, transformation and learning -- Exploring indigenous cosmologies and ways of knowing -- Transformative processes and social movements -- Drawing together and moving forward -- Bibliography -- 3 Decolonizing the Notion of Participation of Children and Young People -- Historical origins and cultural roots of 'participation' -- Power and participation -- Appreciating the pluralistic possibilities of participation -- Listening to children and young people -- Decolonizing theorizing itself -- Questions to ponder -- Bibliography -- 4 Children and Young People's Participation in Public Action in Brazil: Genealogies and Recent Innovations -- Introduction -- Part I: Struggle and political repression, the difficult construction of democracy -- Part II: The building of a democratic state and the key spaces of public action -- Part III: Deepening democratic participation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 5 Brazil's Landless Movement and Children and Young People's Participation -- Introduction -- The development of the MST -- Children and young people in the MST -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 6 Children and Young People's Participation in India: Framing Law, Policy and the Media -- Introduction.
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  • 12
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137435026
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (297 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.77508664
    Keywords: Feminist theory ; Feminist theory ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Based on an extensive interview study with lesbian, transgender and queer BDSM practitioners, this book sheds new light on sexuality and current theoretical debates in gender and queer studies. It critically discusses practices of establishing consent, pushing boundaries, playing with gender and creating new kinds of intimacies and embodiments.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Culture of Dyke+Queer BDSM -- 3 Renegotiating Dyke+Queer BDSM -- 4 Negotiating Critical Consent -- 5 Exploring Exuberant Intimacies -- 6 Exploring and Pushing Boundaries -- 7 Exploring Intimate Power Dynamics -- 8 Exploring Intimate Difference Through Gender -- 9 The Sexual Politics of Exuberant Intimacy -- Conclusion -- Annex: Alphabetical List of Interview Partners -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9781137428455
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (155 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.231
    Keywords: Ethics ; Ethics ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This edited volume documents the current reflections on the 'Right to be Forgotten' and the interplay between the value of memory and citizen rights about memory. It provides a comprehensive analysis of problems associated with persistence of memory, the definition of identities (legal and social) and the issues arising for data management.
    Abstract: "Cover" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "List of Illustrations" -- "Notes on Contributors" -- "List of Abbreviation andAcronyms" -- "Introduction: Interrogating the Right to be Forgotten" -- "1 The Ethics of Forgetting and Remembering in the Digital World through the Eye of the Media" -- "Digital memory: a âRight to be Forgottenâ?" -- "The Right to be Forgotten in the online media" -- "Ethics discourses about the Right to be Forgotten" -- "Final reflections" -- "2 The Right to be Forgotten and the New Archival Paradigm" -- "Memory-preserving institutions" -- "The changing role of archives" -- "RtbF and the new archival paradigm" -- "The place of RtbF in the legal system" -- "Will there be radical changes for the archives?" -- "Conclusions and suggestions" -- "3 The Right to be Forgotten in Post-Scarcity Culture" -- "Introduction to post-scarcity culture" -- "The past made present" -- "The past on trial" -- "Erasure and the Jimmy Savile scandal" -- "Contagion" -- "4 Oblivion: The Right to be Different ... from Oneself: Reâproposing the Right to be Forgotten" -- "Introduction" -- "The resurgence of the debate and the convergence towards the adoption of a âright to be forgottenâ" -- "Data protection â privacy â identity" -- "Data protection vs. privacy /identity" -- "Privacy vs. identity" -- "The Right to be Forgotten: an identity perspective" -- "The wider scope of application: public facts" -- "De-contextualised information" -- "Household exemption and the infallible prevalence of the right to freedom of expression" -- "Identity as the normative root for the right to oblivion" -- "Conclusion" -- "5 The Right to be Forgotten and Informational Autonomy in the Digital Environment" -- "Introduction" -- "The definition and context of the âRight to be Forgottenâ" -- "What is meant by the âRight to be Forgottenâ?".
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  • 14
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137308269
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (322 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Ebrary online
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.23/1
    Keywords: Computer science ; Democracy ; Digital media Political aspects ; Case studies ; Digital media Political aspects ; Information society Political aspects ; Information technology Political aspects ; Case studies ; Information technology Political aspects ; Political participation Technological innovations ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This study is about new media, the crisis of democracy and political renewal. It asks: What is the political? How can we understand politics in a network age? Can we talk sensibly about generational change? Analysing four international case studies, this book gives an optimistic assessment of how digital media supports new forms of politics.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Politics in the Age of the Digital -- 2 How the Light Gets in: Change and Continuity -- 3 Change and Generation -- 4 Coming of Age in a Digital Neoliberal World: Generation and Politics -- 5 A Heuristic, or a Guiding Framework -- 6 Democratic Renewal, Pussy Riot and Flash Gigs in the Kremlin -- 7 The Graduate's Future and Neoliberal Education: New Generation Politics on the Campus -- 8 The Stop Online Piracy Act Case -- 9 The Digital, Indigenous Art and Politics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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  • 15
    ISBN: 9781137337849
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (298 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.23094
    Keywords: Culture-Study and teaching ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Evangelia Psychogiopoulou brings together distinguished scholars across a range of academic disciplines to investigate the media's freedom and independence, and the media policy processes, institutional spaces, regulatory practices and instruments that can support the development of free and independent media in Europe.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Emerging Governance Pattern in Media and Communications -- 2 Media Freedom and Independence in Contemporary Democratic Societies -- Part I Media Policy Processes and Regulatory Patterns -- 3 Media Policy and New Regulatory Systems in Denmark -- 4 Multi-level and Interrelated Media Policy Processes in Germany: An Enabling or Constraining Factor for Free and Independent Media? -- 5 The 'Piranha' Model: Power Plays and Dynamics of Policy-making Addressing Free and Independent Media in Romania -- 6 The National versus the European: The Croatian Roadmap to Media Freedom and Independence -- Part II Courts -- 7 The Role of Courts in Protecting the Freedom of Expression in Italy -- 8 The Freedom of Expression in the Media and the Slovak Judiciary -- 9 Protecting the Public Interest in a Free Press: The Role of Courts and Regulators in the United Kingdom -- Part III Media Finance and Business Models -- 10 Changing Conditions of Competition for Public Service and Commercial Media in Belgium: Implications for Media Independence -- 11 New Business Models for the Media: The Spanish Case -- 12 The Media in Bulgaria: Business Enterprises or PR Divisions of Business Groups? -- Part IV The Journalistic Profession -- 13 The State of the Journalistic Profession in Turkey -- 14 The Role of Professional Journalism in the 'Small' Estonian Democracy -- 15 Journalists' Self-regulation in Greece -- 16 Ethical Demands and Responsibilities in Online Publishing: The Finnish Experience -- Conclusion: Towards Media Freedom and Independence -- References -- Index.
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137343758
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (178 pages)
    Series Statement: Political Corruption and Governance Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.2
    Keywords: Great Britain-Politics and gover ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Through detailed analyses of major and newly available datasets, this study examines the utility of a public probity-focused approach to understanding citizen disaffection with politicians. It shows that perceptions of public probity are coherent, substantively meaningful, responsive, and, most importantly, that they do matter.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Tables and Figures -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Foundations -- 2 Latent Variables: Measures and Implications -- 3 Process Performance and Political Trust: Structural Models -- Part II Causes of Perceptions of Public Probity -- 4 Partisan Co-alignment and Perceptions of Public Probity -- 5 'Why We Hate Politics'? The Impact of Negative Political Events upon Political Perceptions of Public Probity -- 6 Perceptions of Public Probity after 'MPs' Expenses': The Impact of the Local MP's Performance -- 7 Conclusion: Public Probity -- Notes for Policymakers -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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  • 17
    ISBN: 9781137348951
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (247 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.31094109033
    Keywords: Australia--Discovery and exploration--British ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Robinson Crusoe's call to adventure and do-it-yourself settlement resonated with British explorers. In tracing the links in a discursive chain through which a particular male subjectivity was forged, Karen Downing reveals how such men took their tensions with them to Australia, so that the colonies never were a solution to restless men's anxieties.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Crusoe's Chains -- 1 Confined by the Gout - Perceptions of Men's Physical Health -- Every man his own physician -- The natural result of wealth, luxury and indulgence -- No man can completely act up to it -- Relief from the restraint of civilized life -- The new world regenerates the old? -- 2 The Ecstasies and Transports of the Soul - Emotional Journeys of Self-discovery -- Signs of rapture, floods of tears -- Maintaining our state as men -- Relief, or the discharge of a necessary duty? -- For mine's true, every word -- The last link is about to be snapped? -- 3 My Head Filled Early with Rambling Thoughts - Raising Boys and Making Men -- A thing to be managed with great discretion -- A plain, English education? -- Thousands of impressions are made upon us -- Careful and wary conduct in the use of books -- I had read Robinson Crusoe many times over, and longed to be at sea -- 4 Satisfied with Nothing but Going to Sea - Seafaring Lives and Island Hopes -- Arrive at the state of manhood with honour and credit -- I am in hell -- Become good, and even opulent men -- Ploughing the land, ploughing the deep -- 5 To Think that This Was All My Own - Land, Independence and Emigration -- Come and till me, come and reap me! -- I felt I was going to be a sort of Robinson Crusoe -- Sole dominion over a morsel of land -- Strong minds and tough sinews -- If I can't do well in one place, I go to another -- Advantages of civilization without its evils? -- 6 The Middle Station of Life - The Anxieties of Social Mobility -- A thousand nameless little things -- Keep up a certain degree of appearances -- A necessity of social life -- Unkind gossipings, petty jealousies, difficulties of greater magnitude -- The world is too small.
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK | Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781137476661 , 9781349995394
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (120 p)
    DDC: 302.23
    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Communication ; Industries ; Children's literature ; Social sciences ; Personality ; Social psychology
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137449467
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (149 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Ralph, D Work, Family and Commuting in Europe : The Lives of Euro-commuters
    DDC: 304.2094
    Keywords: Migrant labor--European Union countries ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1 Framing Commuter Couples -- 2 Euro-commuting Motives, Decision-Making, and Gender -- 3 Weekdays -- 4 Weekends -- 5 Conclusion and Future Directions -- Epilogue -- References -- Index
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781349672844
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXIII, 1049 p, online resource)
    Edition: 2nd Edition
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Business ; Management science ; Corporate governance ; Political science ; Politics and war ; Criminology ; Organized crime ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Business ; Management science ; Corporate governance ; Political science ; Politics and war ; Criminology ; Organized crime
    Abstract: The substantially revised second edition of the Handbook of Security provides the most comprehensive analysis of scholarly security debates and issues to date. Including contributions from some of the world's leading scholars it critiques the way security is provided and managed
    Abstract: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures and Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introducing The Handbook of Security -- Part I Disciplines and Security -- 2 The History of Private Security and Its Impact on the Modern Security Sector -- 3 Environmental Studies and the Influence of Culture: Security Consulting Experiences in Korea, Japan and Malaysia -- 4 What Have Criminologists Done for Us Lately? -- 5 Politics, Economics and Security -- 6 Engineering Principles in the Protection of Assets -- 7 Design and Security -- Part II Offences
    Abstract: 8 From 'Old' to 'New' Terrorism: History, Current Trends and Future Prospects -- 9 The Violent Vortex: Appraising Risk from Workers Who Kill On-the-Job -- 10 The Extent, Nature and Responses to Workplace Violence Globally: Issues and Findings -- 11 Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships -- 12 Fighting Organized Crime and the Threats to Business -- 13 Commercial Burglary -- 14 Identity Theft -- 15 Cybercrime and Establishing a Secure Cyberworld -- 16 Counterfeiting: The Challenges for Governments, Companies and Consumers -- Part III Crime and Security in Sectors
    Abstract: 17 Understanding Loss in the Retail Sector -- 18 Crime and Disorder, Security and the Tourism Industry -- 19 Food Security -- 20 Criminal Activity in the Financial Sector -- Part IV Researching Security -- 21 Influences of Investigations and Scholarly Studies on the Evolution of American Private Policing: Healthy Distrust, Watchful Eyes -- 22 Securing the Knowledge -- 23 A View from the Street: Active Offenders, the Life-course, Technology and Implications for Security -- 24 The Ethnographic Approach and Security: The Case of Airports
    Abstract: 25 Crime Mapping as a Tool for Security and Crime Prevention -- 26 Improving the Evidence Base in Security: Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis -- 27 Developing, Improving and Evaluating Loss Prevention Initiatives Using Randomized Controlled Trials -- Part V Security Products and Services -- 28 Signing Security -- 29 Security Technology in the Protection of Assets -- 30 Intrusion Detection Systems in the Protection of Assets -- 31 CCTV: Reflections on Its Use, Abuse and Effectiveness -- 32 The Security Officer
    Abstract: 33 Private Military and Security Companies: Armed, Global, Regulated and Professional? -- Part VI Security and Its Management -- 34 The Role of Partnerships in Security Management -- 35 Security and Risk Management -- 36 Disaster and Crisis Management -- 37 Managing Intelligence and Responding to Emerging Threats: The Case of Biosecurity -- 38 Regulation -- Part VII Critiquing Security -- 39 Critiques of Corporate Security: Cost, Camouflage and Creep -- 40 Securitization, Infopolitics and the Suppression of Liberty -- 41 Where Next for the Professionalization of Security?
    Abstract: 42 Trading in Security: Issues in the Commodification of Public Security
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    ISBN: 9781137351340
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (152 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Westall, C The Public on the Public : The British Public as Trust, Reflexivity and Political Foreclosure
    DDC: 306.20941
    Keywords: Political theory ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: We Are Not 'the Public' -- 2 The Public as Financial Trust -- 3 The Public as Cultural Commonwealth -- 4 Public Participation as Debt Demand -- 5 Public Reflexivity as Political Foreclosure -- 6 The Arts of Public Value -- 7 Coda: On Not Saving 'the Public' -- Bibliography -- Index
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    ISBN: 9781137374103
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (212 pages)
    Parallel Title: Preserving the sixties
    DDC: 941.0856072
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    Keywords: Great Britain-History ; Great Britain-History ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Großbritannien ; Radikalismus ; Protestbewegung ; Konservativismus ; Geschichte 1960-1970
    Abstract: Re-examining the long-held belief that the Sixties in Britain were dominated mainly by 'youth' and 'protest', the authors in the collection argue that innovation was everywhere shadowed by conservatism. A decade fascinated by itself and, especially, by the future, it also was tormented by self-doubt and accompanied by a fear of losing the past.
    Abstract: "Cover" -- "Contents" -- "List of Tables and Figures" -- "Notes on Contributors" -- "Foreword" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Introduction" -- "1 Sixties Britain: The cultural politics of historiography" -- "Part I: Politics" -- "2 The 1960s: Days of innocence" -- "3 The Abortion Act 1967: A fundamental change?" -- "4 Industrial relations in the 1960s: The end of voluntarism?" -- "5 The radical left and popular music in the 1960s" -- "Part II: Culture" -- "6 Civil Rights in Northern Ireland and Frielâs The Freedom of the City" -- "7 Pulp diction: Stereotypes in 1960s British literature" -- "8 Sketchy counter-culture" -- "9 Psychic liberation in Sgt. Pepperâs Lonely Hearts Club Band" -- "10 Preservation Society" -- "Conclusion".
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    ISBN: 9781137356154
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (117 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Hate Studies
    Parallel Title: Zempi, Irene, 1984 - Islamophobia, victimisation and the veil
    DDC: 305.6/97
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    Keywords: Criminology ; Criminology ; Electronic books ; Islam ; Frau ; Schleier ; Geschlechterrolle ; Islamfeindlichkeit
    Abstract: This book examines the experiences of veiled Muslim women as victims of Islamophobia, and the impact of this victimisation upon women, their families and wider Muslim communities. It proposes a more effective approach to engaging with these victims; one which recognises their multiple vulnerabilities and their distinct cultural and religious needs.
    Abstract: "Cover" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Dedication" -- "Contents" -- "About the Authors" -- "Introduction" -- "1 Constructions of Islam,Gender and the Veil" -- "2 Unveiling IslamophobicVictimisation" -- "3 Researching Islamophobiaand the Veil" -- "4 Uncovering IslamophobicVictimisation" -- "5 Impact of IslamophobicVictimisation" -- "6 Conclusions and Reflections" -- "References".
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137507846
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (168 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Palgrave pivot
    Parallel Title: Print version Kamusella, T Creating Languages in Central Europe During the Last Millennium
    DDC: 306.440943
    Keywords: Europe, Central-Languages-History ; Europe, Central-Languages-Political aspects-History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: After 1918 Central Europe's multiethnic empires were replaced by nation-states, which gave rise to an unusual ethnolinguistic kind of nationalism. This book provides a detailed history and linguistic analysis of how the many languages of Central Europe have developed from the 10th century to the present day
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: (Central) Europe and the World -- 1 Preliminaries -- Language or languages? -- The dichotomy of 'a language' (Einzelsprache) and dialect -- Writing and ideology -- Standard languages and nations -- 2 Setting the Stage in Europe -- Holy Latin in the West -- Vernaculars into languages in the West -- Holy languages in the East -- 3 The Question of the Middle -- Plurality or homogeneity? -- What is in the name? -- Politics of script -- E unum pluribus
    Abstract: 4 From Nationalism to the Internet -- Ethnolinguistic nationalism: the beginnings -- Central Europe of nation-states -- The internet changes the rules of the game -- European ethnolinguistic commonality? -- Conclusion -- E-Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137300249
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (266 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture : Tiger's Tales
    DDC: 305.3109417
    Keywords: Masculinity-Ireland ; Masculinity in popular culture-Ireland ; Men-Ireland-Identity ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 〈p 〉〈span style=""font-style:italic;"" 〉Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture: Tiger's Tales〈/span〉 is an interdisciplinary collection of essays by established and emerging scholars, analysing the shifting representations of Irish men across a range of popular culture forms in the period of the Celtic Tiger and beyond
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    ISBN: 9781137444554
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (331 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Anthony, A SMEs in Indian Textiles : The Impact of Globalization in a Developing Market
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Ethnology-Asia ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Evolving Patterns of Expanding Trade -- 1 Firms Adapting to Global Marketplaces: Introduction -- 2 The Phenomenon of Globalization in Trade -- 3 Theorizations of Economic Geography -- Part II The Indian Textile Policy and SMEs -- 4 The Indian Textile Industry: Some Observations -- 5 Small and Medium Enterprises in Indian Textiles -- 6 Kannur: History, Background and Trade Linkages -- Part III Analytical Framework and Study Design
    Abstract: 7 Global Value Chain Analysis Framework -- 8 The Study of Linkages Using Mixed Methods -- 9 Presenting the Analysis of Qualitative Data -- Part IV Reflexive Records of Evidence -- 10 Examining Emergent Codes through Constant Comparison -- 11 Examining Apriori Codes through Cross Case Analysis of Case Reports -- 12 Analyses of Buyer Perceptions and Buying Functions -- Part V Impacts, Outcomes and Future Directions -- 13 Analyzing the Collective Perception by Survey of SMEs -- 14 Developing Meta Inferences from Case Studies and Surveys
    Abstract: 15 Conclusion: Possible Strategies against Self-Limiting Growth -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781137409775
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (346 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Onuch, O. Mapping Mass Mobilization
    DDC: 303.48/409477
    Keywords: Protest movements -- Argentina -- History ; Protest movements -- Ukraine -- History ; Social movements -- Argentina -- History ; Social movements -- Ukraine -- History ; Electronic books.
    Abstract: Through a paired comparison of two moments of mass mobilization, in Ukraine and Argentina, focusing on the role of different actors involved, this text maps out a multi‐layered sequence of events leading up to mass mobilization
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables, and Maps -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- List of Abbreviations -- Maps -- Part I -- 1 Introduction: The Shock and Awe of Moments of Mass Mobilization -- 2 Theoretical Framework for Comparative Analysis of Mass Mobilization -- Part II -- 3 Mapping Moments and Movements in Ukraine and Eastern Europe 1920-2004 -- 4 Mapping Moments and Movements in Argentina and Latin America 1920-2001 -- Part III -- 5 Setting Precedents: Medium-term Structural Factors in the Mobilization Process -- 6 Context Is Only Part of the Puzzle: Short-term Structural Factors in the Mass Mobilization Process -- Part IV -- 7 The Activist and Elite Interaction and Information Exchange Game -- 8 The Duty to Protest: Participation of 'Ordinary' People in Mass Mobilization -- 9 Conclusions: Understanding Revolutionary Moments and Movements -- Epilogue: It Happened Again - The 2014 EuroMaidan Mass Mobilization in Ukraine -- Appendices -- Notes -- References -- Index
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781137476661
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (110 pages)
    DDC: 305
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This book is open access under a CC BY license. Selfies, blogs and lifelogging devices help us understand ourselves, building on long histories of written, visual and quantitative modes of self-representations. This book uses examples to explore the balance between using technology to see ourselves and allowing our machines to tell us who we are.
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781137403605
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (249 pages)
    DDC: 305.80095
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This book is open access under a CC BY license. This edited collection focuses on theories, language and migration in relation to multiculturalism in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. Each chapter aims to provide alternative understandings to current conflicts that have arisen due to immigration and policies related to education, politics, language, work, citizenship and identity.
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (40 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: van der Weide, Roy Inequality is Bad for Growth of the Poor (But Not for That of the Rich)
    Abstract: The paper assesses the impact of overall inequality, as well as inequality among the poor and among the rich, on the growth rates along various percentiles of the income distribution. The analysis uses micro-census data from U.S. states covering the period from 1960 to 2010. The paper finds evidence that high levels of inequality reduce the income growth of the poor and, if anything, help the growth of the rich. When inequality is deconstructed into bottom and top inequality, the analysis finds that it is mostly top inequality that is holding back growth at the bottom
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (41 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Dillon, Andrew Agricultural Production, Dietary Diversity, and Climate Variability
    Abstract: Nonseparable household models outline the links between agricultural production and household consumption, yet empirical extensions to investigate the effect of production on dietary diversity and diet composition are limited. Although a significant literature has investigated the calorie-income elasticity abstracting from production, this paper provides an empirical application of the nonseparable household model linking the effect of exogenous variation in planting season production decisions via climate variability on household dietary diversity. Using exogenous variation in degree days, rainfall, and agricultural capital stocks as instruments, the effect of production on household dietary diversity at harvest is estimated. The empirical specifications estimate production effects on dietary diversity using both agricultural revenue and crop production diversity. Significant effects of agricultural revenue and crop production diversity on dietary diversity are estimated. The dietary diversity-production elasticities imply that a 10 percent increase in agricultural revenue or crop diversity results in a 1.8 percent or 2.4 percent increase in dietary diversity, respectively. These results illustrate that agricultural income growth or increased crop diversity may not be sufficient to ensure improved dietary diversity. Increases in agricultural revenue do change diet composition. Estimates of the effect of agricultural income on share of calories by food groups indicate relatively large changes in diet composition. On average, a 10 percent increase in agricultural revenue makes households 7.2 percent more likely to consume vegetables and 3.5 percent more likely to consume fish, and increases the share of tubers consumed by 5.2 percent
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (27 p)
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    Parallel Title: Dabalen, Andrew Estimating Poverty in the Absence of Consumption Data
    Abstract: In much of the developing world, the demand for high frequency quality household data for poverty monitoring and program design far outstrips the capacity of the statistics bureau to provide such data. In these environments, all available data sources must be leveraged. Most surveys, however, do not collect the detailed consumption data necessary to construct aggregates and poverty lines to measure poverty directly. This paper benefits from a shared listing exercise for two large-scale national household surveys conducted in Liberia in 2007 to explore alternative methodologies to estimate poverty indirectly. The first is an asset-based model that is commonly used in Demographic and Health Surveys. The second is a survey-to-survey imputation that makes use of small area estimation techniques. In addition to a standard base model, separate models are estimated for urban and rural areas and an expanded model that includes climatic variables. Special attention is paid to the inclusion of cell phones, with implications for other assets whose cost and availability may be changing rapidly. The results demonstrate substantial limitations with asset-based indexes, but also leave questions as to the accuracy and stability of imputation models
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    Parallel Title: Evans, David K Cost-Effectiveness Measurement in Development
    Abstract: As evidence from rigorous impact evaluations grows in development, there have been more calls to complement impact evaluation analysis with cost analysis, so that policy makers can make investment decisions based on costs as well as impacts. This paper discusses important considerations for implementing cost-effectiveness analysis in the policy making process. The analysis is applied in the context of education interventions, although the findings generalize to other areas. First, the paper demonstrates a systematic method for characterizing the sensitivity of impact estimates. Second, the concept of context-specificity is applied to cost measurement: program costs vary greatly across contexts-both within and across countries-and with program complexity. The paper shows how adapting a single cost ingredient across settings dramatically shifts cost-effectiveness measures. Third, the paper provides evidence that interventions with fewer beneficiaries tend to have higher per-beneficiary costs, resulting in potential cost overestimates when extrapolating to large-scale applications. At the same time, recall bias may result in cost underestimates. The paper also discusses other challenges in measuring and extrapolating cost-effectiveness measures. For cost-effectiveness analysis to be useful, policy makers will require detailed, comparable, and timely cost reporting, as well as significant effort to ensure costs are relevant to the local environment
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    Parallel Title: van der Weide, Roy GLS Estimation and Empirical Bayes Prediction for Linear Mixed Models with Heteroskedasticity and Sampling Weights
    Abstract: This note adapts results by Huang and Hidiroglou (2003) on Generalized Least Squares estimation and Empirical Bayes prediction for linear mixed models with sampling weights. The objective is to incorporate these results into the poverty mapping approach put forward by Elbers et al. (2003). The estimators presented here have been implemented in version 2.5 of POVMAP, the custom-made poverty mapping software developed by the World Bank
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    Parallel Title: Stein, Daniel Dynamics of Demand for Rainfall Index Insurance
    Abstract: This paper analyzes the dynamic nature of rainfall insurance purchasing decisions, specifically looking at whether and why receiving an insurance payout induces a greater chance of purchasing insurance again the next year. This analysis uses customer data from the Indian micro-finance institution BASIX, and finds that receiving an insurance payout is associated with a 9 to 22 percentage points increased probability of purchasing insurance the following year. This affect appears to be driven by behavioral effects of receiving a payout, and cannot be explained by trust, learning, or direct effects of weather. Overall, low repurchasing rates even after payouts suggest that current rainfall index insurance products are likely to continue struggling to achieve significant sales at market prices
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    Parallel Title: Gaarder, Marie M The Second Wave of Independence
    Abstract: In the 21st century, many developing countries will become emerging markets and will no longer be in need of the carrot-and-stick approach to development assistance most prevalent today: development financing made available conditional on certain policies and interventions. This paper suggests that interactions between development agencies and recipient governments are mostly about inputs deemed (but not known) to contribute to improvements in living standards in recipient countries, rather than outcomes. The paper argues that the development marketplace is beset by market imperfections because of externalities, principal-agent problems, and decision making under uncertainty, which not only make it difficult to achieve the right outcomes, but also take away incentives to learn about outcomes. A fundamental rethink of responsibilities and accountabilities in the development business would make sure that development outcomes are traded in the development marketplace. It would put recipient countries in charge of contracting development agencies to provide these outcomes. Development agencies would commit to and be held financially accountable for outcomes, that is, real improvements in welfare indicators. The paper describes the role of the evaluation function in aligning incentives with the ultimate goal of improving lives and provides examples of emerging solutions
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (46 p)
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    Parallel Title: Peria, Maria Soledad Martinez The Impact of Credit Information Sharing Reforms on Firm Financing
    Abstract: This paper analyzes the impact of introducing credit information-sharing systems on firms' access to finance. The analysis uses multi-year, firm-level surveys for 63 countries covering more than 75,000 firms over the period 2002-13. The results reveal that credit bureau reforms, but not credit registry reforms, have a significant and robust effect on firm financing. After the introduction of a credit bureau, the likelihood that a firm has access to finance increases, interest rates drop, maturity lengthens, and the share of working capital financed by banks increases. The effects of credit bureau reforms are more pronounced the greater the coverage of the credit bureau and the scope and accessibility of the credit information-sharing scheme. Credit bureau reforms also have a greater impact on firms' access to finance in countries where contract enforcement is weaker. Finally, there is some evidence that the effects of credit bureau reform are more pronounced for smaller, less experienced, and more opaque firms
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    Parallel Title: Arcia, Gustavo School Autonomy and Accountability in Thailand
    Abstract: There is a consensus on the need for Thailand to reform its education system to be able to compete with other high performing countries in the region. In terms of learning outcomes, the most recent evidence from the Programme for International Student Assessment shows little improvement over time. This paper uses the World Bank's Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) approach in Thailand to contrast policy intent and policy implementation in school autonomy and accountability. The policy implementation data were obtained from a survey of school principals of the schools that participated in the Programme for International Student Assessment and merged the data sets. First, the study analyzes the gap between policy intent and policy implementation. Then it examines the effect of the gaps on various schooling outcomes while controlling for covariates. The analysis finds significant differences between the Systems Approach for Better Education Results indicators of policy intent and policy implementation in all areas assessed by the indicators. Schools in Thailand exercise more flexibility in their personnel management in practice than what is intended by policy; student assessments need to address issues of content, reliability, and validity and school accountability needs to improve the interpretation of student assessments to make schools more accountable. There is a positive association between the Programme for International Student Assessment scores and school autonomy and accountability
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (38 p)
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    Parallel Title: Bulman, David Transitioning from Low-Income Growth to High-Income Growth
    Keywords: Wachstumspolitik ; Wirkungsanalyse
    Abstract: Is there a "middle income trap"? Theory suggests that the determinants of growth at low and high income levels may be different. If countries struggle to transition from growth strategies that are effective at low income levels to growth strategies that are effective at high income levels, they may stagnate at some middle income level; this phenomenon can be thought of as a "middle income trap." This paper does not find evidence for (unusual) stagnation at any particular middle income level. However, it does find evidence that the determinants of growth at low and high income levels differ. These findings suggest a mixed conclusion: middle-income countries may need to change growth strategies to transition smoothly to high-income growth strategies, but this can be done smoothly and does not imply the existence of a middle income trap
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    Parallel Title: Qureshi, Zia The Post-Crisis Growth Slowdown in Emerging Economies and the Role of Structural Reforms
    Abstract: This paper constructs indicators of structural bottlenecks arising from barriers to open markets, obstacles to business operations, and constraints to access to finance. Empirical evidence from a sample of 30 emerging economies indicates that barriers to open markets and access to finance are significantly associated with differences in total factor productivity growth in the post-global financial crisis period compared with the pre-crisis period-with countries with fewer barriers showing stronger recovery and resilience. Barriers to access to finance are also associated with differences in the performance of private investment. Reforms to improve the policy framework in these areas, up to the level of the best-ranking countries, could offset the recently observed growth slowdown in emerging economies. These reforms would revitalize potential growth and mitigate the risks from external shocks associated with the global environment in the transition from the global financial crisis
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (51 p)
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    Parallel Title: Kostka, Genia Barriers to the Implementation of Environmental Policies at the Local Level in China
    Abstract: China's national leaders have recently made a priority of changing lanes from a pollution-intensive, growth-at-any-cost model to a resource-efficient and sustainable one. The immense challenges of rapid urbanization are one aspect of the problem. Central-local government relations are another source of challenges, since the central government's green agenda does not always find willing followers at lower levels. This paper identifies barriers to a more comprehensive implementation of environmental policies at the local level in China's urban areas and suggests ways to reduce or remove them. The research focuses particularly on the reasons for the gap between national plans and policy outcomes. Although environmental goals and policies at the national level are quite ambitious and comprehensive, insufficient and inconsistent local level implementation can hold back significant improvements in urban environmental quality. By analyzing local institutional and behavioral obstacles and by highlighting best-practice examples from China and elsewhere, the paper outlines options that can be used at the national and local levels to close the local "environmental implementation gap." The findings emphasize the need to create additional incentives and increase local implementation capacities
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    Parallel Title: Beck, Thorsten SME Finance in Africa
    Abstract: This paper uses cross-country firm-level surveys to gauge access to financial services and the importance of financing constraints for African enterprises. The paper compares access to finance in Africa and other developing regions of the world, within Africa across countries, and across different groups of firms. It relates firms' access to finance to firm and banking system characteristics and discusses policy challenges
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    Parallel Title: Ersado, Lire Egypt
    Abstract: The paper examines the levels and trends in access to education and educational outcomes across generations of Egyptian youth. Examination of three cohorts of individuals aged 21 to 24 (born between 1964 and 1967, 1974 and 1977, and 1982 and 1985) shows that access to education has substantially improved during the last three decades. Completion rates increased by more than 60 percent at the preparatory level and 70 percent at the secondary level and the college completion rate more than doubled. However, significant inequities remain in access to education and educational outcomes. The fraction of never enrolled among the cohorts is still large, affecting more girls than boys, more rural than urban areas, and more children of parents with lower level of education and in elementary occupations, such as subsistence agriculture. The analysis of test-scores from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and national examinations shows that more than a quarter of learning outcome inequality is attributable to circumstances beyond the control of a student, such as parental education, socioeconomic background and place of birth. In Egypt, inequality of opportunity in learning outcomes emerges early and builds up progressively throughout the education levels. Access to higher education continues to remain significantly lower for children from rural areas and for those whose parents have a low level of education or are engaged in elementary occupations. Tracking into vocational and general secondary schools, which depends on a high-stakes national examination, and high and unequal levels of household expenditures in private tutoring substantially contribute to unequal learning outcomes
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (23 p)
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    Parallel Title: Herrera, Santiago Long-Run Growth in Ghana
    Abstract: Ghana' economic growth picked up in the early 2000s and has been exceptionally strong over the past few years, with price booms of its main commodity exports, gold and cocoa, and the initiation of commercial oil production in 2011. This paper examines recent econometric evidence on Ghana' long-term growth and evaluates its sustainability. The empirical evidence surveyed finds that Ghana' main growth drivers were investment, oil, and mineral rents, while government consumption acted as a growth retardant. Based on various scenarios for its determinants, per capita GDP growth rates are predicted to be between 3.5 and 4.5 percent for 2014-34. Nevertheless, the predictions are subject to considerable uncertainty associated with the expected trends and volatility of the drivers of growth, particularly to sustaining investment levels and external factors such as commodity prices and international capital flows. A growth decomposition exercise shows that Ghana' past growth was led by capital accumulation, which will be difficult to sustain given the high current account deficits and the volatility of capital flows. Hence, a switch toward a productivity-based growth strategy, instead of the investment-led growth strategy of the past, is the only viable alternative to sustain the recent high growth rates. For that, Ghana needs focus on policies that enhance government effectiveness and public spending efficiency. To mitigate the risk of falling into the so-called growth traps like many other countries, Ghana must resolve its macroeconomic imbalances and resume the institutional reform to enhance the quality of institutions and make growth more inclusive
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (49 p)
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    Parallel Title: Ferré, Céline Can Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Education and Nutrition Outcomes for Poor Children in Bangladesh?
    Abstract: There is an increasing recognition that investment in human development at an earlier age can have a significant impact on the lifetime earnings capacity of an individual. This notion is the basis for the popularity of conditional cash transfer programs to help boost child health and education outcomes. The evidence on the impact of conditional cash transfers on health and education outcomes, however, is mixed. This paper uses panel data from a pilot project and evaluates the impact of conditional cash transfers on consumption, education, and nutrition outcomes among poor rural families in Bangladesh. Given implementation challenges the intervention was not able to improve school attendance. However the analysis shows that the pilot had a significant impact on the incidence of wasting among children who were 10-22 months old when the program started, reducing the share of children with weight-for-height below two standard deviations from the World Health Organization benchmark by 40 percent. The pilot was also able to improve nutrition knowledge: there was a significant increase in the proportion of beneficiary mothers who knew about the importance of exclusively breastfeeding infants until the age of six months. The results also suggest a significant positive impact on food consumption, especially consumption of food with high protein content
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (52 p)
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    Parallel Title: Rijkers, Bob Which Firms Create the Most Jobs in Developing Countries?
    Abstract: This paper examines private sector job creation in Tunisia over the period 1996-2010 using a unique database containing information on all registered private enterprises, including self-employment. In spite of stable growth of gross domestic product, overall net job creation was disappointing and firm dynamics were sluggish. The firm size distribution has remained skewed toward small firms, because of stagnation of incumbents and entrants starting small, typically as one-person firms (self-employment). Churning is limited, especially among large firms, and few firms manage to grow. Post-entry, small firms are the worst performers for job creation, even if they survive. Moreover, the association between productivity, profitability, and job creation is feeble, pointing towards weaknesses in the re-allocative process. Weak net job creation thus appears to be due to insufficient firm dynamism rather than excessive job destruction
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (39 p)
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    Parallel Title: Maimbo, Samuel Munzele Interest Rate Caps around the World
    Abstract: Among other common forms of government financial control, caps on interest rates have been declining over the past several decades as most industrialized countries and a rising number of developing countries continue liberalizing their financial policies. However, in several countries the last financial crisis reopened the debate on interest rate controls as a tool for consumer protection. This paper undertakes a stock-taking exercise to determine the number of countries currently capping interest rates on loans. The paper looks at the main characteristics of the regimes countries have used, including the source of rate-setting authority, the methodology, and the criteria for establishing the cap. The paper finds at least 76 countries around the world currently use some form of interest rate caps on loans - all with varying degrees of effects, including the withdrawal of financial institutions from the poor or from specific segments of the market, an increase in the total cost of the loan through additional fees and commissions, among others. The paper concludes that there are more effective ways of reducing interest rates on loans over the long run and of improving access to finance: measures that enhance competition and product innovation, improve financial consumer protection frameworks, increase financial literacy, promote credit bureaus, enforce disclosure of interest rates, and promote microcredit products. Such measures should be implemented in an integrated manner. However, if caps are still considered a useful policy tool for reducing interest rates on loans and increasing access to finance, they should be implemented in accord with the caveats described in the paper
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  • 48
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (32 p)
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    Parallel Title: Geginat, Carolin Transparent Government and Business Regulation
    Abstract: This paper presents new indicators for 185 economies measuring the accessibility of business regulatory information. The paper shows that the new data can serve as meaningful proxies for the overall transparency of governments and the new data have explanatory power for the quality of business regulation. The paper finds the regulatory environment to be most opaque in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa, where businesses can often only access basic regulatory information by meeting a government official. By contrast, in countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, access is more direct via websites, public billboards, and brochures. Moreover, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development economies are more consistent in their transparency efforts across government agencies. The paper also finds that while resources as proxied by income levels play some role in explaining why some economies make more information easily accessible than others, those resources are not the only determining factor; regardless of income, more democratic governments tend to make greater transparency efforts. Finally, easier access to basic regulatory information is associated with greater regulatory quality and less corruption
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  • 49
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (31 p)
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    Parallel Title: Deininger, Klaus Inheritance Law Reform, Empowerment, and Human Capital Accumulation
    Abstract: This paper uses evidence from three Indian states, one of which amended inheritance legislation in 1994, to assess first- and second-generation effects of inheritance reform using a triple-difference strategy. Second-generation effects on education, time use, and health are larger and more significant than first-generation effects even controlling for mothers' endowments. Improved access to bank accounts and sanitation as well as lower fertility in the parent generation suggest that inheritance reform empowered females in a sustainable way, a notion supported by significantly higher female survival rates
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  • 50
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (31 p)
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    Parallel Title: Yamauchi, Futoshi Roads, Labor Markets, and Human Capital
    Abstract: This paper uses household panel data from rural Indonesia to examine the impact of road quality on labor supply and wages. First, road projects are found to increase transportation speed. Second, the empirical results from intra-village variations of household endowments and labor market behavior show that an increase in transportation speed raised wages in nonagricultural and agricultural employment, and was associated with a decline in working time in agricultural employment, for households whose members are relatively educated. The findings support potential complementarity between road quality and education
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  • 51
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (26 p)
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    Parallel Title: Dobronogov, Anton Containing Volatility
    Abstract: An abundance of natural resources is both an opportunity and a challenge for developing countries. Several resource-rich, low-income countries receive amounts of foreign aid that are similar to or larger than their actual or potential revenues from natural resources. In such countries, the donors may have an opportunity to help a government to use its resource revenues productively and minimize the magnitude of risks created by resource rents. Development of aid instruments tailored for such purposes might be helped by model-based analysis of the effects of foreign aid on resource-rich, low-income economies and its interactions with the flows of natural resource revenues. This paper develops a growth model a la Barro in which the government receives windfalls (from natural resources and foreign aid) and rent-seeking agents contest for public funds. The key conclusion is that making aid countercyclical helps to achieve higher economic growth, and so does conditioning disbursements on enhancement of public capital. Introducing elements of insurance in the design of both aid products financing investments in infrastructure and social services and supporting policy and institutional reforms may help to achieve both of these objectives
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  • 52
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (152 p)
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    Parallel Title: Böhringer, Christoph The Environmental Implications of Russia's Accession to the World Trade Organization
    Abstract: This report investigates the environmental impacts of Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization. A 10-region, 30-sector model of the Russian economy is developed. The model is innovative and more accurate empirically in that it contains foreign direct investment, imperfectly competitive sectors, and endogenous productivity effects triggered by World Trade Organization accession along with environmental emissions data in Russia for seven pollutants that are tracked for all 30 sectors in each of the 10 regions. The decomposition analysis shows that despite the fact that World Trade Organization accession allows Russia to import better technologies and reduce pollution from the “technique effect,” on balance World Trade Organization accession alone will increase environmental pollution in Russia through a shift toward dirty industries (the “composition effect”) and the expansion of output with its associated increase in pollution (“scale effect”). The paper assesses the costs of three types of environmental regulations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent. The paper simultaneously implements a central case scenario with each of the carbon dioxide emission reduction policy initiatives. The analysis finds that the welfare gains of World Trade Organization accession are large enough to pay for the costs of any of the three environmental abatement policies, while leaving a net welfare gain. But the political economy implications are that the non-market-based policies are more costly and the command and control policy, which is not well targeted, is very costly. Based on a constant returns to scale model, the estimated welfare gains are insufficient to finance the costs of environmental regulation
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  • 53
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (36 p)
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    Parallel Title: Ananthpur, Kripa The Anatomy of Failure
    Abstract: Programs that induce citizen participation to improve the quality of government at the local level are the subjects of large amounts of funding and intense debate. This paper combines a randomized control trial of a citizenship training and facilitation program in rural India, with an in-depth, four-year ethnography of the intervention to understand the underlying mechanisms of change. The quantitative data show no impact from the intervention. Household and village survey data from 100 treatment and 100 control villages show considerable improvement across a wide variety of governance and participation indicators over time, but the differences in the changes between treatment and control villages are not statistically significant. The detailed qualitative data from a 10 percent subsample allow us to unpack the reasons why the intervention “failed,” highlighting the role of variations in the quality of facilitation, lack of top-down support, and difficulties with confronting the stubborn challenge of persistent inequality. However, the qualitative investigation also uncovered subtle treatment effects that are difficult to observe in structured surveys. The paper thus demonstrates that a concerted effort to use “thick description” to uncover the process of change using careful and detailed qualitative work can add value to standard impact evaluations
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  • 54
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (69 p)
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    Parallel Title: Giné, Xavier Money or Ideas?
    Abstract: This paper identifies the relative importance of human and physical capital for entrepreneurship. A subset of rural microfinance clients were offered eight full time days of business training and the opportunity to participate in a loan lottery of up to Rs. 100,000 (USD 1,700), about seven times the average loan size. The study finds that business training increased business knowledge, reduced business failure, improved business practices and increased household expenditures by about
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  • 55
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (22 p)
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    Parallel Title: Battaile, Bill Services, Inequality, and the Dutch Disease
    Abstract: This paper shows how Dutch disease effects may arise solely from a shift in demand following a natural resource discovery. The natural resource wealth increases the demand for non-tradable luxury services due to non-homothetic preferences. Labor that could be used to develop other non-resource tradable sectors is pulled into these service sectors. As a result, manufactures and other tradable goods are more likely to be imported, and learning and productivity improvements accrue to the foreign exporters. However, once the natural resources diminish, there is less income to purchase the services and non-resource tradable goods. Thus, the temporary gain in purchasing power translates into long-term stagnation. As opposed to conventional models where income distribution has no effect on economic outcomes, an unequal distribution of the rents from resource wealth further intensifies the Dutch disease dynamics within this framework
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  • 56
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (15 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Basu, Kaushik Ponzis
    Abstract: Ponzis are among the most ubiquitous and least understood phenomena of economic life. They acquired a certain salience with the global financial crisis of 2008 and the crash of Bernie Madoff's celebrated Ponzi scheme. This paper explains the structure of Ponzi schemes and goes on to argue that what makes this such a troubling phenomenon is its ability to be camouflaged amidst legitimate practices. It is shown, for instance, that the common practice of giving stock options to employees could be a potential Ponzi that allows corporations to flourish for a while by borrowing from its own future. The paper goes on to discuss the need for intelligent regulation to incise harmful Ponzis (not all Ponzis are harmful) while taking care not to damage other legitimate activities that surround them
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  • 57
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (62 p)
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    Parallel Title: Bown, Chad P Trade Flows and Trade Disputes
    Abstract: This paper introduces a new data set and establishes a set of basic facts and patterns regarding the trade that countries fight about under World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement. The paper characterizes the scope of products, as well as the levels of and changes to the trade values, market shares, volumes, and prices for those goods that eventually become subject to WTO litigation. The first result is striking heterogeneity in the level of market access at stake across disputes: for example, 14 percent of cases over disputed import products feature bilateral trade that is less than
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  • 58
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (30 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Messina, Julián Evolving Wage Cyclicality in Latin America
    Abstract: A vector autoregression model with time-varying coefficients is used to examine the evolution of wage cyclicality in four Latin American economies: Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro-cyclical in all countries up to the mid-1990s except in Chile. Wage cyclicality declines thereafter, especially in Brazil and Colombia. This decline in wage cyclicality is in accordance with declining real-wage flexibility in a low-inflation environment. Controlling for compositional effects caused by changes in labor force participation along the business cycle does not alter these results
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  • 59
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (20 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Kanbur, Ravi How Useful is Inequality of Opportunity as a Policy Construct?
    Keywords: Bildungschancen ; Einkommensverteilung ; Sozialer Indikator ; Ethik
    Abstract: The academic literature on equality of opportunity has burgeoned. The concepts and measures have begun to be used by policy institutions, including in specific sectors such as health and education. It is argued that one advantage of focusing on equality of opportunity is that policy makers are more responsive to that discourse than to equality of outcomes per se. This paper presents a critique of equality of opportunity in the policy context. Although the empirical analysis to which the literature has given rise is useful and is to be welcomed, current methods for quantifying and implementing the concept with a view to informing the policy discourse face a series of fundamental questions that remain unanswered. Without a full appreciation of these difficulties, the methods may prove to be misleading in the policy context
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (24 p)
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    Parallel Title: Kojo, Naoko C Demystifying Dutch Disease
    Abstract: This paper examines the theory of Dutch disease and its implications for practical policy questions. Dutch disease is a term that is well-known to economists and development practitioners. But it is also a concept that is often conflated with "resource curse" and misinterpreted as a "disease" that necessarily causes adverse impacts on the economy. The paper points out that many of the seemingly well-established arguments in this field are not necessarily grounded in theory or empirical evidence. Great care is needed in diagnosing Dutch disease and formulating policy prescriptions based on the theoretical framework, given the restrictive assumptions that may not be fully applicable and the limited relevance to today's inextricably intertwined trade flows. Countries facing large inflows of foreign currency should focus on safeguarding the domestic economy from the volatility of international commodity and capital markets, and building robust institutions to reduce adjustment costs and boost broader competitiveness. A policy package needs to be comprehensive, covering macroeconomic and structural policy measures, and should be calibrated to target country specific concerns. Policies may need to be adjusted continuously in view of the evolving dynamics of the global and domestic economic environment
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  • 61
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (44 p)
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    Parallel Title: Scheierling, Susanne M How to Assess Agricultural Water Productivity?
    Abstract: Given population and income growth, it is widely expected that the agricultural sector will have to expand the use of water for irrigation to meet rising food demand; at the same time, the competition for water resources is growing in many regions. As a response, it is increasingly recommended that efforts should focus on improving water productivity in agriculture, and significant public and private investments are being made with this goal in mind. Yet most public communications are vague on the meaning of agricultural water productivity, and on what should be done to improve it. They also tend to emphasize water as if it were the only input that mattered. This paper presents findings from a first attempt to survey the agricultural productivity and efficiency literature with regard to the explicit inclusion of water aspects in productivity and efficiency measurements, with the aim of contributing to the discussion on how to assess and possibly improve agricultural water productivity. The focus is on studies applying single-factor productivity measures, total factor productivity indices, frontier models, and deductive models that incorporate water. A key finding is that most studies either incorporate field- and basin-level aspects but focus only on a single input (water), or they apply a multi-factor approach but do not tackle the basin level. It seems that no study on agricultural water productivity has yet presented an approach that accounts for multiple inputs and basin-level issues. However, deductive methods do provide the flexibility to overcome many of the limitations of the other methods
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  • 62
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (43 p)
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    Parallel Title: Dutz, Mark A Public and Private Investments in Innovation Capabilities
    Abstract: This paper assembles novel data on the Chilean wine industry to investigate the role of investments in knowledge capital on sales growth in domestic and international markets. The study uses archival data collected from the Government of Chile to compile and categorize public expenditures and programs supporting the Chilean wine industry over the period of 1990-2012 into investment in different types of knowledge capital. These spending categories are related to industry-level sales growth. The paper finds that the most important correlate is spending on research and development. The study also uses data from a new survey of Chilean wine firms to capture information on firm-specific investments in knowledge capital. The findings show that investments in collaboration capital, in particular hiring foreign consultants, as well as participation in international wine fairs are the strongest correlates of growth in export sales, while spending on aspects of branding (local advertising and brand design) are the strongest correlates of domestic market sales growth
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  • 63
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (41 p)
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    Parallel Title: Devarajan, Shantayanan Budget Rules and Resource Booms
    Abstract: This paper develops a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to analyze and derive simple budget rules in the face of volatile public revenue from natural resources in a low-income country like Niger. The simulation results suggest three policy lessons or rules of thumb. When a resource price change is positive and temporary, the best strategy is to save the revenue windfall in a sovereign fund, and use the interest income from the fund to raise citizens' consumption over time. This strategy is preferred to investing in public capital domestically, even when private investment benefits from an enhanced public capital stock. Domestic investment raises the prices of domestic goods, leaving less money for government to transfer to households; public investment is not 100 percent effective in raising output. In the presence of a negative temporary resource price change, however, the best strategy is to cut public investment. This strategy dominates other methods, such as trimming government transfers to households, which reduces consumption directly, or borrowing, which incurs an interest premium as debt rises. In the presence of persistent (positive and negative) shocks, the best strategy is a mix of public investment and saving abroad in a balanced regime that provides a natural insurance against both types of price shocks. The combination of interest income from the sovereign fund, transfers to households, and output growth brought about by public investment provides the best protective mechanism to smooth consumption over time in response to changing resource prices
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  • 64
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (29 p)
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    Parallel Title: Lecuyer, Oskar Optimal Transition from Coal to Gas and Renewable Power under Capacity Constraints and Adjustment Costs
    Abstract: This paper studies the optimal transition from existing coal power plants to gas and renewable power under a carbon budget. It solves a model of polluting, exhaustible resources with capacity constraints and adjustment costs (to build coal, gas, and renewable power plants). It finds that optimal investment in renewable energy may start before coal power has been phased out and even before investment in gas has started, because doing so allows for smoothing investment over time and reduces adjustment costs. Gas plants may be used to reduce short-term investment in renewable power and associated costs, but must eventually be phased out to allow room for carbon-free power. One risk for myopic agents comparing gas and renewable investment is thus to overestimate the lifetime of gas plants-e.g., when computing the levelized cost of electricity-and be biased against renewable power. These analytical results are quantified with numerical simulations of the European Commission's 2050 energy roadmap
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  • 65
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (45 p)
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    Parallel Title: Aker, Jenny C Mobile Phone Coverage and Producer Markets
    Keywords: Telefonnetz ; Agrarmarkt ; Effizienzmarkthypothese ; Agrarpreis ; Westafrika
    Abstract: Mobile phone coverage has expanded considerably throughout the developing world, particularly within sub-Saharan Africa. Existing evidence suggests that increased access to information technology has improved agricultural market efficiency for consumer markets and certain commodities, but there is less evidence of its impact on producer markets. Building on the work of Aker (2010), this paper estimates the impact of mobile phone coverage on producer price dispersion for three commodities in Niger. The results suggest that mobile phone coverage reduces spatial producer price dispersion by 6 percent for cowpea, a semi-perishable commodity. These effects are strongest for remote markets and during certain periods of the year. The introduction of mobile phone coverage has no effect on producer price dispersion for millet and sorghum, two staple grains that are less perishable and are commonly stored by farmers. There are no impacts of mobile phone coverage on traders' gross margins or producer price levels, but mobile phone coverage is associated with a reduction in the intra-annual price variation for cowpea. These results are potentially explained by the fact that farmers engage in greater storage for storable commodities such as millet and sorghum
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  • 66
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (41 p)
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    Parallel Title: Calì, Massimiliano Integrating Border Regions
    Abstract: Deeper regional integration can be beneficial especially for regions along international borders. It can open up new markets on opposite sides of borders and give consumers wider access to cheaper goods. This paper uses data from five contiguous districts of India, Nepal, and Bangladesh in the northeast of the subcontinent to measure the degrees of trade complementarity between districts. The paper illustrates that the regions are underexploiting the potential of intraregional commerce. Price wedges of up to 90 percent in some important consumption products along with measures of complementarity between households' production and consumption suggest the potential for relatively large gains from deeper trade integration. Furthermore, an examination of a specific supply chain of tea highlights factors that help industries scale up, aided by institutions such as an organized auction and decent physical and legal infrastructure. However, districts alike in geography but located across international boundaries face different development prospects, suggesting that gains from reduced "thickness of borders" would not accrue automatically. Much rests on developing intrinsic industry competitiveness at home, including the reform of regulatory and business practices and infrastructural bottlenecks that prevent agglomeration of local economies
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (58 p)
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    Parallel Title: Awasthi, Rajul Can Tax Simplification Help Lower Tax Corruption?
    Abstract: This paper seeks to find empirical evidence of a link between tax simplification and corruption in tax administration. It attempts to do this by first defining "tax simplicity" as a measurable variable and exploring empirical relationships between simpler tax regimes and corruption in tax administration. Corruption in tax administration is calculated with data series from the World Bank's Enterprise Survey Database. The focus is on business taxes. The study includes 104 countries from different income groups and regions of the world. The time period is 2002-12. The empirical findings support the existence of a significant link between the measure of tax corruption and tax simplicity, so a less complex tax system is shown to be associated with lower corruption in tax administration. It is predicted that the combined effect of a 10 percent reduction in both the number of payments and the time to comply with tax requirements can lower tax corruption by 9.64 percent. Some interesting regional differences are observed in the results. Similarly, the income level of countries plays an important role in determining the impact of tax simplification on tax corruption; specifically, the link is stronger for lower-income level countries. The positive link between tax simplicity and lower tax corruption has useful policy implications
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  • 68
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (44 p)
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    Parallel Title: Bussolo, Maurizio Capital Will Not Become More Expensive as the World Ages
    Abstract: Aging of populations and convergence between developed and developing countries in per capita incomes are shaping the evolution of saving, investment, capital flows, and, in particular, the cost of capital. When considering these trends, the existing literature argues for either continued, low interest rates, or sharply rising ones. This paper presents an alternative view: modest rises in interest rates, which result from a combination of increases in the global weight of high-saving developing economies (limiting declines in global saving), and decelerations in the rate of growth in developing countries (constraining upward pressure in global investment). For the majority of countries, slowing capital demand resulting from decelerating growth, coupled with structural changes that influence its attractiveness as a destination for capital, moderate increases in interest rates. Changes in key assumptions do not alter this view. More specifically, the small rise in interest rates persists even in a scenario where growth in developing countries decelerates more slowly, or when elasticities governing the behavior of saving and investment are varied
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  • 69
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (34 p)
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    Parallel Title: Aga, Gemechu Ayana International Remittances and Financial Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Abstract: This paper uses World Bank survey data, including about 10,000 households in five countries-Burkina Faso, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and Uganda-to investigate the link between international remittances and households' financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper finds that receiving international remittances increases the probability that the household opens a bank account in all the five countries. This result is robust to controlling for the potential endogeneity of remittances, using as instruments indicators of the migrants' economic conditions in the destination countries
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (43 p)
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    Parallel Title: Iootty, Mariana Stylized Facts on Productivity Growth
    Abstract: Drawing on a representative sample of firms, this paper presents some microeconomic evidence on the productivity growth process in Croatia since the onset of recession (2008-12). Four types of results are highlighted. First, there is a persistent (and increasing) heterogeneity in the performance of Croatian firms along outcome measures. Second, Croatia lags behind regional peers in entrepreneurship measures, which suggests a comparatively lower economic dynamism. Third, the lack of dynamism displayed by the Croatian economy is confirmed when looking at the firm entry and exit process: the analytical results point to reduced firm dynamism compared with Croatia's peers in Europe and Central Asia. Fourth, the contribution of net entry to overall productivity growth in Croatia is surprisingly negative. This is contrary to what would be expected based on the literature and suggests that the process of "destructive creation" in Croatia has not been efficient, as the market might be eliminating firms that are potentially productive. Policies that foster market contestability should be pursued, especially policies aiming at better product market regulation (such as liberalization of entry into the service sector, particularly retail and infrastructure). Measures to help finance entrepreneurship (in promising sectors) should be used to support enhancements in firm productivity. In addition, appropriate bankruptcy rules play a key role by easing the exit process and allowing low-productive units to leave the market and free resources that can be better used by other, more efficient, firms
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  • 71
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (25 p)
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    Parallel Title: Morales, Alvaro Pedraza Strategic Interactions and Portfolio Choice in Money Management
    Abstract: This paper studies the portfolio choice of strategic fund managers in the presence of a peer-based underperformance penalty. Evidence is taken from the Colombian pension fund management industry, where six asset managers are in charge of portfolio allocation for the mandatory contributions of the working population. These managers are subject to a peer-based underperformance penalty, known as the Minimum Return Guarantee. The trading behavior by the managers is studied before and after a change in the strictness of the guarantee in June 2007. The evidence suggests that a tighter minimum return guarantee results in more trading in the direction of peers, a behavior that is more pronounced for underperforming managers. These managers rebalance their portfolios by buying securities in which they are underexposed relative to their peers, as opposed to selling assets in which they are overexposed. Overall, the results suggest that incentives for managers to be close to industry benchmarks play an important role in the portfolio allocation of these funds
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  • 72
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (27 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: van den Berg, Caroline The Drivers of Non-Revenue Water
    Abstract: To many, reducing water losses is seen as key to more sustainable water management. The arguments to reduce water losses are compelling, but reducing water losses has turned out to be challenging. This paper applies a panel data analysis with fixed effects to determine the major drivers of non-revenue water, which is define as the volume of water losses per kilometer of network per day. The analysis uses data from the International Benchmarking Network for Water and Sanitation Utilities, covering utilities in 68 countries between 2006 and 2011. The analysis finds that non-revenue water is driven by many factors. Some of the most important drivers are beyond the control of the utility, such as population density per kilometer of network, the type of distribution network, and the length of the network, which are largely the result of urbanization and settlement patterns in the localities that the utility serves. The opportunity costs of water losses are also key in explaining what drives non-revenue water. The paper finds that very low opportunity costs of water losses have an adverse effect on the reduction of non-revenue water. Country fixed effects turn out to be important, meaning that the environment in which the utility operates has an important impact on non-revenue water levels. An important conclusion is that the design of non-revenue water reduction programs should study the main drivers of non-revenue water to provide utility managers with a better understanding of what can be achieved in terms of non-revenue water reduction and whether the benefits of these reductions exceed their costs
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  • 73
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (36 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Artuc, Erhan Export Performance and Geography in Croatia
    Abstract: This paper uses the gravity model to analyze whether the varying export performance of Croatian counties can be explained by their proximity to border gates, ports, and other county-specific characteristics. The analysis finds that longer distances to border gates increase trade frictions significantly for many product categories, although these frictions have been decreasing between 2007 and 2012. The paper analyzes the county specific factors that are associated with variation in export performance, net of distance. Results show that exports are strongly and positively correlated with motorway and road density, the size of the labor force, low-skill ratio, and the number of patents. These variables are also associated with a greater diversity of exports in terms of products and destinations. Several general policy implications are highlighted. The significant association between motorway and road density and export volume, number of destinations, as well as the diversity of exported products may indicate that improvements in connectivity and facilitation of transport could still play a significant role in enhancing regional trade outcomes. Similarly, good performance in research and development may significantly help to spur competitiveness and allow local producers to enter new markets in products and destinations, which in turn can increase the level of diversification and boost resilience to global economic shocks
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  • 74
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (46 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Gharafutdinova, Gulnaz Governors and Governing Institutions
    Abstract: The paper uses the latest 2011 round of the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey for the Russian Federation, which for the first time was designed to be representative of Russian regions. The paper takes a closer look at regional-level factors influencing the business environment in Russia and, more specifically, conditions that favor the emergence of symbiotic relations between regional authorities and regional businesses. Considering the argued significance of informal rules, norms, and agreements for the regional-level business environment in Russia, the paper uses proxy variables such as tenure and origin of regional governors to identify how these rules are being institutionalized. The findings reveal that, at least in case of Russia, juxtaposing the state and business actors as separate and opposed to each other may overstate the distinction between these two groups of actors and understate the fact that many localities in Russia have witnessed the emergence of mutually beneficial state-business arrangements. Defining whether these arrangements are beneficial or harmful to regional development is beyond the scope of this exploratory paper
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  • 75
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (29 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Knack, Stephen Interactions among Donors' Aid Allocations
    Abstract: This study investigates the effects of the World Bank's exogenously-determined income threshold for eligibility for concessionary International Development Association (IDA) loans on the allocations of bilateral donors. The donors might interpret the World Bank's policies and allocations across recipients as informative signals of where their own aid might be used most effectively. Alternatively, other donors might compensate for reduced IDA allocations by increasing their own aid. This paper shows that the signaling effect dominates any crowding out effects. The analysis uses panel data with country fixed effects and finds that aid from the bilateral donor countries is significantly reduced after countries cross the IDA income cutoff, controlling for other determinants of aid. Allocations by other donors are not sensitive to actual IDA disbursements, only to the IDA income threshold. Because crossing the income cutoff for eligibility significantly reduces aid levels from other donors as well as from the World Bank, government officials in recipient countries may have an incentive to manipulate their national accounts data to understate per capita income when it is near the IDA threshold. However, tests for "bunching" of observations just below the income threshold find no evidence to support data manipulation concerns. These findings suggest that graduation from IDA should be an even more gradual process than it already is, to dampen the sharp drops in aid experienced by countries after crossing an arbitrary income threshold
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  • 76
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (17 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Woutersen, Tiemen Estimating the Long-Run Impact of Microcredit Programs on Household Income and Net Worth
    Abstract: This paper investigates whether the utilization of microcredit programs has a significant impact on the income and net worth of the participants. Several micro finance institutes are optimistic on the beneficial effects of microcredit programs. Others describe microcredit with interest rates in excess of 20 percent as a poverty trap. This paper uses more than 20 years of panel data on households in Bangladesh to estimate bounds on the causal effects of microcredit programs. The analysis rejects the hypothesis that these microcredit programs are a poverty trap. Moreover, the paper finds moderately positive effects of such programs
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  • 77
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (56 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Dang, Hai-Anh H Updating Poverty Estimates at Frequent Intervals in the Absence of Consumption Data
    Keywords: Armut ; Konsum ; Haushaltsstatistik ; Arbeitsmarktstatistik ; Jordanien
    Abstract: Obtaining consistent estimates on poverty over time as well as monitoring poverty trends on a timely basis is a priority concern for policy makers. However, these objectives are not readily achieved in practice when household consumption data are neither frequently collected, nor constructed using consistent and transparent criteria. This paper develops a formal framework for survey-to-survey poverty imputation in an attempt to overcome these obstacles, and to elevate the discussion of these methods beyond the largely ad-hoc efforts in the existing literature. The framework introduced here imposes few restrictive assumptions, works with simple variance formulas, provides guidance on the selection of control variables for model building, and can be generally applied to imputation either from one survey to another survey with the same design, or to another survey with a different design. Empirical results analyzing the Household Expenditure and Income Survey and the Unemployment and Employment Survey in Jordan are quite encouraging, with imputation-based poverty estimates closely tracking the direct estimates of poverty
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  • 78
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (71 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Wagstaff, Adam Who Benefits from Government Health Spending and Why?
    Abstract: This paper uses a common household survey instrument and a common set of imputation assumptions to estimate the pro-poorness of government health expenditure across 69 countries at all levels of income. On average, government health expenditure emerges as significantly pro-rich, but there is heterogeneity across countries: in the majority, government health expenditure is neither pro-rich nor pro-poor, while in a small minority it is pro-rich, and in an even smaller minority it is pro-poor. Government health expenditure on contracted private facilities emerges as significantly pro-rich for all types of care, and in almost all Asian countries government health expenditure overall is significantly pro-rich. The pro-poorness of government health expenditure at the country level is significantly and positively correlated with gross domestic product per capita and government health expenditure per capita, significantly and negatively correlated with the share of government facility revenues coming from user fees, and significantly and positively correlated with six measures of the quality of a country's governance; it is not, however, correlated with the size of the private sector nor with the degree to which the private sector delivers care disproportionately to the better-off. Because poorly-governed countries are underrepresented in the sample, government health expenditure is likely to be even more pro-rich in the world as a whole than it is in the countries in this study
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  • 79
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (23 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Moral-Benito, Enrique Testing Weak Exogeneity in Cointegrated Panels
    Abstract: For reason of empirical tractability, analysis of cointegrated economic time series is often developed in a partial setting, in which a subset of variables is explicitly modeled conditional on the rest. This approach yields valid inference only if the conditioning variables are weakly exogenous for the parameters of interest. This paper proposes a new test of weak exogeneity in panel cointegration models. The test has a limiting Gumbel distribution that is obtained by first letting the time dimension of the panel go to infinity and then letting its cross-sectional dimension go to infinity. The paper evaluates the accuracy of the asymptotic approximation in finite samples via simulation experiments. Finally, as an empirical illustration, the paper reports tests of weak exogeneity of disposable income and wealth in an aggregate consumption equation
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  • 80
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (37 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Shilpi, Forhad Voting with Their Feet?
    DDC: 360
    Abstract: Using bilateral migration flow data from the 2010 population census of Nepal, this paper provides evidence on the importance of public infrastructure and services in determining migration flows. The empirical specification, based on a generalized nested logit model, corrects for the non-random selection of migrants. The results show that migrants prefer areas that are nearer to paved roads and have better access to electricity. Apart from electricity's impact on income and through income on migration, the econometric results indicate that migrants attach substantial amenity value to access to electricity. These findings have important implications for the placement of basic infrastructure projects and the way benefits from these projects are evaluated
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  • 81
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (39 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Cororaton, Caesar B The Impact of Exogenous Shocks on Households in the Pacific
    Abstract: This paper seeks to provide evidence on the extent of household vulnerability to exogenous economic shocks in the Pacific region and consider policy options that help to manage this risk. Characteristics of the region such as remoteness, small size, dispersion, and urbanizing populations lead to pronounced vulnerabilities. The paper presents macroeconomic and distributional analysis and complements it with results of a micro-simulation model customized for this work based on a model used previously by the World Bank to analyze the impacts of the Food and Fuel Price Crisis. The results of micro-simulations serve to highlight the very high levels of economic vulnerability faced in the region. Impacts of economic shocks are not confined to well-off individuals, but have major impacts on the poor. Even moderate shocks are likely to push sizeable fractions of the population below the poverty line. The shocks considered are not worst case scenarios, but those that can and have occurred frequently. The results show that households are hard hit by increases in oil prices, especially in remote islands where freight costs are higher, while countries on aggregate, and individual households, are exposed to volatility in the prices of the one or two imported food commodities that they depend on. Livelihoods are also often driven by external demand. In particular, many poor households in countries like Papua New Guinea have livelihood strategies centered on cash crops. The results point to the importance of helping households of the Pacific to manage the risk inherent in their lives while prudently using macroeconomic tools at the disposal of the government
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  • 82
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (38 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Groh, Matthew Macroinsurance for Microenterprises
    Abstract: Firms in many developing countries cite macroeconomic instability and political uncertainty as major constraints to their growth. Economic theory suggests uncertainty can cause firms to delay investments until uncertainty is resolved. A randomized experiment was conducted in post-revolution Egypt to measure the impact of insuring microenterprises against macroeconomic and political uncertainty. Demand for macroeconomic shock insurance was high; 36.7 percent of microentrepreneurs in the treatment group purchased insurance. However, purchasing insurance does not change the likelihood that a business takes a new loan, the size of the loan, or how the loan is invested. This lack of effect is attributed to microenterprises largely investing in inventories and raw materials rather than irreversible investments like equipment. These results suggest that, contrary to what some firms profess, macroeconomic and political risk is not inhibiting the investment behavior of microenterprises. However, insurance may still be of value to help firms cope with shocks when they do occur, but the paper is unable to examine this dimension, because the insurance product did not pay out over the course of the pilot
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  • 83
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (62 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Kee, Hiau Looi Local Intermediate Inputs and the Shared Supplier Spillovers of Foreign Direct Investment
    Abstract: Trade liberalizations have been shown to improve domestic firms' performance through the new varieties of imported intermediate inputs. This paper uses a unique, representative sample of Bangladeshi garment firms to highlight that local intermediate inputs may also enhance domestic firms' performance, through the shared supplier spillovers of foreign direct investment (FDI) firms. An exogenous EU trade policy shock is shown to cause some FDI firms in Bangladesh to expand, which led to better performance of the domestic firms that shared their suppliers. Overall, the shared supplier spillovers of FDI explain 1/4 of the product scope expansion and 1/3 of the productivity gains within domestic firms
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  • 84
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (38 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Ozier, Owen Exploiting Externalities to Estimate the Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Deworming
    Keywords: Basisgesundheitsversorgung ; Ländliches Gesundheitswesen ; Kinderschutz ; Ernährung ; Bildungsverhalten ; Kenia
    Abstract: This paper investigates whether a large-scale deworming intervention aimed at primary school pupils in western Kenya had long-term effects on young children in the region. The paper exploits positive externalities from the program to estimate the impact on younger children who did not receive treatment directly. Ten years after the intervention, large cognitive effects are found - comparable to between 0.5 and 0.8 years of schooling - for children who were less than one year old when their communities received mass deworming treatment. Because mass deworming was administered through schools, effects are estimated among children who were likely to have older siblings in schools receiving the treatment directly; in this subpopulation, effects are nearly twice as large
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  • 85
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (45 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Anginer, Deniz Foreign Bank Subsidiaries' Default Risk During the Global Crisis
    Keywords: Bankenkrise ; Portfolio-Management ; Bank ; Ausländische Tochtergesellschaft ; Black-Scholes-Modell ; Kreditrisiko
    Abstract: This paper examines the association between the default risk of foreign bank subsidiaries and their parents during the global financial crisis, with the purpose of understanding what factors can help insulate affiliates from their parents. The paper finds evidence of a significant positive correlation between parent banks' and foreign subsidiaries' default risk. This correlation is lower for subsidiaries that have higher capital, retail deposit funding, and profitability ratios and that are more independently managed from their parents. Host country regulations also influence the extent to which shocks to the parents affect the subsidiaries' default risk. In particular, the correlation between the default risk of the subsidiary and the parent is lower for subsidiaries operating in countries that impose higher capital, reserve, provisioning, and disclosure requirements and tougher restrictions on bank activities
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  • 86
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (56 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Xu, Lixin Colin Water Quality, Brawn, and Education
    Abstract: Although previous research has demonstrated the health benefits of water treatment programs, relatively little is known about the effect of water treatment on education. This paper examines the educational benefits to rural youth in China of a major drinking water treatment program started in the 1980s, perhaps the largest of such programs in the world. By employing a cross-sectional data set (constructed from a longitudinal data set covering two decades) with more than 4,700 individuals between 18 and 25 years old, the analysis finds that this health program has improved the individuals' education substantially, increasing the grades of education completed by 1.08 years. The qualitative results hold when the analysis controls for local educational policies and resources, village dummies, and distance of villages to schools, and by instrumenting the water treatment dummy with villages' topographic features, among others. Moreover, three findings render support to the brawn theory of gender division of labor: girls benefit much more from water treatment than boys in schooling attainment; youth with an older brother benefit more than youth with an older sister; and boys gain more body mass than girls do from having access to treated water. The program can account for the gender gap in educational attainment in rural China in the sample period. Young people that had access to treated plant water in early childhood (0-2 years of age) experienced significantly higher gains in education than those who were exposed to treated water after early childhood. The estimates suggest that this program is highly cost-effective
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  • 87
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (28 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Andalón, Mabel Weather Shocks and Health at Birth in Colombia
    Abstract: Poor health at birth has negative long-run effects on individual well-being and is also detrimental for intergenerational mobility. This paper examines whether health outcomes at birth are affected by in utero increased exposure to rainfall and temperature shocks in Colombia, one of the countries in the world with the highest incidence of extreme weather events per year. The paper uses a fixed effects design to gauge the causal effect using variation in fetal exposure to these shocks by municipality and date of birth. The analysis finds negative effects of temperature shocks on birth health outcomes and no effect of rainfall shocks. The results indicate that heat waves lead to a 0.5 percentage point reduction in the probability of being born at full term and a decline of 0.4 percentage point in the probability of newborns classified as healthy. The timing of exposure to the shock matters and it matters differently for different outcomes. These findings are critical to prioritize responses to counteract the negative effects of weather, particularly hot shocks, which are projected to become more frequent and intense with changing climate
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  • 88
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (55 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Fritz, Verena Strengthening Public Financial Management
    Abstract: This paper explores two relationships, first between country characteristics and the quality of public financial management ('drivers'), and second between the quality of public financial management systems and expected outcomes ('effects'). On the influence of country characteristics, the paper investigates economic factors (income level, growth, and resource dependency), population size, levels and sources of revenue, and three macro-political characteristics-political stability, regime type, and the presence of programmatic parties. These characteristics jointly explain about 40 percent of the variation in the quality of public financial management across countries. Furthermore, first-difference analysis suggests that countries with lower initial public financial management quality improve at a higher rate over time. This implies that structural factors set the scene for the likelihood of better or worse performance, but also that there is substantial variation among countries sharing certain characteristics and reform opportunities exist even in unfavorable environments. Methodologically, a key limitation is that the direction of causality cannot be fully addressed with the types of data available. On the effects of the performance of public financial management, the paper finds evidence that stronger performance results in better budget credibility, but not in lower deficits. Furthermore, there is no clear evidence regarding operational efficiency. The observed disconnect could be caused by missing complementary state capacities, measurement problems, or other issues, which need to be explored further. Overall, the findings are consistent with the assumption that stakeholder incentives and constellations matter and that reform approaches combining good technical calibration and political economy considerations are likely to influence success in strengthening public financial management
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  • 89
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (33 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Blankespoor, Brian Protected Areas and Deforestation
    Abstract: This paper investigates the effectiveness of protected areas in slowing tropical forest clearing in 64 countries in Asia/Pacific, Africa, and Latin America for the period 2001-2012. The investigation compares deforestation rates inside and within 10 kilometers outside the boundary of protected areas. Annual time series of these deforestation rates were constructed from recently published high-resolution data on forest clearing. For 4,028 parks, panel estimation based on a variety of park characteristics was conducted to test if deforestation is lower in protected areas because of their protected status, or if other factors explain the difference. For a sample of 726 parks established since 2002, a test also was conducted to investigate the effect of park establishment on protection. The findings suggest park size, national park status, and management by indigenous people all have significant association with effective protection across regions. For the Asia/Pacific region, the test offers compelling evidence that park establishment has a near-immediate and powerful effect
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  • 90
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (32 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Lopez-Claros, Augusto Does Culture Matter for Development?
    Abstract: Economists have either avoided or struggled with the concept of culture and its role in economic development. Although a few theoretical works-and even fewer empirical studies-have appeared in the past decades, this paper tries to build on a multidisciplinary approach to review the evidence on whether and how culture matters for development. First, the paper reviews available definitions of culture and illustrates ways in which culture can change and create favorable conditions for economic development. Second, the paper discusses the challenges of separating the effect of culture from other drivers of human behavior such as incentives, the availability of information, or climate. Finally, the paper argues that globalization has led to the emergence of a set of progressive values that are common cultural traits of all developed economies
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  • 91
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (42 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Kattan, Raja Bentaouet Dropout in Upper Secondary Education in Mexico
    Abstract: This study examines the causes and effects of low enrollment and high dropout rates at the upper secondary level in Mexico, where upper secondary completion rates are well below those of other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries and the regional average. Through a disaggregated analysis of coverage, absorption, and dropout data in secondary education at the state level, the study categorizes states according to the stage in the educational cycle at which dropout primarily occurs. The study further examines the academic, social, and economic consequences of dropout through an analysis of employment and youth survey data. The analysis of factors associated with dropout uses self-reported factors as well as estimated probit models that use household data from national surveys and the national standardized test. The central conclusion reached is that in addition to the patterns of dropout found, multiple elements intersect with the patterns to form a complex panorama. Key findings include: i) personal, family, and household economic factors and the prevalence of social risks have a closer association with dropout earlier in the education cycle; ii) the association between dropout and the quality of education has greater intensity in states where dropout occurs primarily during upper secondary education and in those with the lowest upper secondary dropout rates; and iii) as the returns to education grow, dropout is lower; in the case of returns to higher education, the association with dropout is stronger for states that have the highest dropout during upper secondary education. This complexity merits differentiated responses, which are explored through a brief look at relevant international approaches
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  • 92
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (23 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Oseni, Gbemisola Can Agricultural Households Farm Their Way Out of Poverty?
    Keywords: 2010 - 2011 ; Landwirtschaftlicher Familienbetrieb ; Produktivität ; Haushaltsstatistik ; Panel ; Armut ; Nigeria
    Abstract: This paper examines the determinants of agricultural productivity and its link to poverty using nationally representative data from the Nigeria General Household Survey Panel, 2010/11. The findings indicate an elasticity of poverty reduction with respect to agricultural productivity of between 0.25 to 0.3 percent, implying that a 10 percent increase in agricultural productivity will decrease the likelihood of being poor by between 2.5 and 3 percent. To increase agricultural productivity, land, labor, fertilizer, agricultural advice, and diversification within agriculture are the most important factors. As commonly found in the literature, the results indicate the inverse-land size productivity relationship. More specifically, a 10 percent increase in harvested land size will decrease productivity by 6.6 percent, all else being equal. In a simulation exercise where land quality is assumed to be constant across small and large holdings, the results show that if farms in the top land quintile had half the median yield per hectare of farms in the lowest quintile, production of the top quintile would be 10 times higher. The higher overall values of harvests from larger land sizes are more likely because of cultivation of larger expanses of land, rather than from efficient production. It should be noted that having larger land sizes in itself is not positively correlated with a lower likelihood of being poor. This is not to say that having larger land sizes is not important for farming, but rather it indicates that increasing efficiency is the more important need that could lead to poverty reduction for agricultural households
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  • 93
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (19 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Toman, Michael The Need for Multiple Types of Information to Inform Climate Change Assessment
    Abstract: Information on ecosystem characteristics as well as economic statistics is needed to more fully inform decision makers on the impacts of climate change on human well-being. Climate change risks involve potentially large and irreversible as well as highly uncertain impacts that need to be evaluated with information that complements cost-benefit analysis. Information on the irreversibility of impacts also is relevant for evaluating implications for intergenerational equity. In addition, climate change is subject to a large degree of Knightian uncertainty, making it useful to understand how individuals perceive and evaluate climate change risks
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  • 94
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (36 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Gaddis, Isis The Gendered Labor Market Impacts of Trade Liberalization
    Abstract: This paper investigates gender differences in the impact of Brazil' trade liberalization on labor market outcomes. To identify the causal effect of trade reforms, the paper uses difference-in-difference estimation exploiting variation across microregions in pre-liberalization industry composition. The analysis finds that trade liberalization reduced male and female labor force participation and employment rates, but the effects on men were significantly larger. Thereby, tariff reductions contributed to gender convergence in labor force participation and employment rates. Gender differences are concentrated among the low-skilled population and in the tradable sector, where male and female workers are most likely to be imperfect substitutes
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  • 95
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (77 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Jafari, Yaghoob Estimates of Ad Valorem Equivalents of Barriers Against Foreign Suppliers of Services in Eleven Services Sectors and 103 Countries
    Abstract: A new database on the barriers faced by foreign suppliers of services has been produced by the World Bank. Data for 103 countries are available on 11 of the most important services sectors in international trade. Based on these data and building on the methodology and publications supported by the Australian Productivity Commission, this paper produces estimates of the ad valorem equivalents of the barriers for all these sectors and countries. Compared with estimates available in the literature that are based on assessments of country- and sector-specific barriers to services providers, the estimates expand the set of sectors and more than triple the set of countries for which estimates of the ad valorem equivalents of the services barriers are available
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  • 96
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (29 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Cojocaru, Alexandru Should Income Inequality be Reduced and Who Should Benefit?
    Abstract: This paper examines support for reducing inequality and for income redistribution to specific groups in Europe and Central Asia. The paper uses the Life in Transition Survey to analyze cross-country differences in redistributive preferences and the determinants of individual-level differences in such preferences. The analysis tests for various possible motivations, such as self-interest, beliefs about the fairness of the income-generating process, past social mobility experience, or expectations of future social mobility. Fewer people wanted to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor in 2010 than in 2006 in transition countries. Support for redistribution toward specific groups is highest for the disabled and the elderly, but there is high heterogeneity across countries in support for various redistributive policies, as well as in the alignment between average beliefs and actual policies. The empirical analysis confirms the importance of beliefs about fairness in influencing redistributive preferences, together with self-interest and past and expected social mobility in European Union member states (Western European and new member states), but only to a limited extent in the non-European Union member state group of transition countries. Regarding redistribution to specific groups, self-interest appears to be an important motivation for support for the elderly and families with children, whereas values and beliefs are important drivers of support for the working poor and the unemployed. Although framing matters, the results are broadly robust to alternative measures of support for reducing inequality
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (47 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Ralston, Laura Success in Difficult Environments
    Abstract: The World Bank Group has identified support to fragile and conflict-affected states as a strategic priority. This paper provides a systematic portfolio review of the International Development Association-funded projects in fragile and conflict-affected states during 2001 to 2013 and a detailed empirical analysis of the correlations between project and country-level characteristics with project outcome ratings. The portfolio review identifies a decline in the proportional amount of resources directed to fragile and conflict-affected states and a decline in the number of internationally recruited staff based in these countries. The empirical analysis finds no statistical difference in whether projects obtain at least a moderately satisfactory outcome rating between countries that are fragile and conflict-affected states and those that are not. Examination of the distribution of project outcome ratings indicates that projects in fragile and conflict-affected states obtain slightly lower ratings conditional on being unsatisfactory or satisfactory. Detailed cross-section regression analysis finds that indicators of project complexity, such as supervision costs, staff time, preparation time, and financing, are correlated with lower outcome ratings. Project leader characteristics are correlated with project outcome ratings, but to a lesser degree in fragile and conflict-affected states, potentially indicating that it is more difficult for project leaders to influence project outcomes in these environments. Last, a new approach to control for unobservable project characteristics, such as inherent complexity or ambition, shows preliminary evidence that changes in the project leader and increases in the supervision budget are correlated with improvements in project performance
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  • 98
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (32 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Singh, Raju Jan Oil and Civil Conflict
    Abstract: This paper explores the conditions under which public spending could minimize violent conflict related to oil wealth. Previous work suggests that oil can lead to violent conflict because it increases the value of the state as a prize or because it undermines the state' bureaucratic penetration. Yet, little has been said on how oil wealth could be used to prevent the onset of violent conflict through public spending by buying off citizens and elites, increasing state legitimacy by providing basic services, or strengthening the military and security apparatus. The empirical analysis (148 countries over 1960-2009) shows that higher levels of military spending are associated with lower risk of small- and large-scale conflict onset in countries rich in oil and gas. By contrast, in economies with little natural resources, increases in military spending are associated with a higher risk of conflict. Welfare expenditure is associated with lower risk of small-scale conflict, irrespective of the level of oil revenue. However, general government spending does not appear to have any robust mitigating effects
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (30 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Barbier, Edward B Poverty and the Spatial Distribution of Rural Population
    Abstract: According to global spatial data sets in 2000 more than one-third of the rural population in developing countries was located on less favored agricultural land and areas. Less favored agricultural lands are susceptible to low productivity and degradation, because their agricultural potential is constrained biophysically by terrain, poor soil quality, or limited rainfall. Less favored agricultural areas include less favored agricultural lands plus favorable agricultural land that is remote, that is, land in rural areas with high agricultural potential but with limited access. The paper presents tests of whether these spatial distributions of rural population influence poverty directly or indirectly via income growth in 83 developing countries from 2000 to 2012. The analysis finds no evidence of a direct impact on poverty, but there is a significant indirect impact via the elasticity of poverty reduction with respect to growth. Reducing poverty requires targeting rural populations in less favored lands and remote areas, in addition to encouraging out-migration in some areas
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (84 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Kabanda, Patrick The Creative Wealth of Nations
    Abstract: Cultural activities are increasingly noted as drivers of meaningful development. But they have yet to gain a prominent place in the architecture of development strategy. The performing arts, discussed here, exhibit direct effects on social progress and economic growth through trade in music, movies, and temporary work permits for artists, for example. Indirect contributions may also include environmental stewardship, tourism, nation branding, social inclusion, cultural democracy, and shifting cultural behaviors. These direct and indirect contributions are not well documented. As such, how is the creative or cultural sector a crucial part of the wealth of nations, and how could the World Bank Group better leverage the performing arts in its development strategy? This discussion provides a broad snapshot, from arts education, to social inclusion, to international trade in services. Key constraints include: the paucity of data and the difficulty of measuring cultural activities, the challenge of intellectual property, and the unclear benefits of cultural tourism. Part I sets the stage. Part II then provides policy options to foster the performing arts as a promising engine for development. Suggestions include: 1. expanding direct involvement in artistic projects, 2. increasing the use of performing arts to address social issues, 3. collecting data, 4. promoting intellectual property training programs, 5. supporting digital platforms in the developing world that advance indigenous music, and 6. funding studies on such areas as cultural tourism. Progress still needs to be made in the discussion of the diverse ways that the performing arts can contribute to meaningful development
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