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  • The case for incremental housing (Inglés)

    The study makes an irrefutable six-fold case for realizing the full potential of a most successful way of building: 'informal incremental urban settlement'. It describes procedures, by which millions of...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 80958 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Akporji,Chii,Cobbett,William,Manning-Riley,Caitlin Elizabeth,Wakely,Patrick

  • Financial system structure in Colombia : a proposal for a reform agenda (Inglés)

    The objective of this policy paper is to identify and propose high-level legal and regulatory reforms to Colombia's financial system structure that would enhance efficiency and/or mitigate risks. Five...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS4006 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: De La Cruz Gonzalez,Javier,Stephanou,Constantinos

  • Increasing inequality in transition economies : is there more to come? (Inglés)

    This paper decomposes changes in inequality, which has in general been increasing in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, both by income source and socio-economic group...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS4007 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Mitra,Pradeep K.,Yemtsov,Ruslan G.

  • Firm Productivity in Bangladesh Manufacturing Industries (Inglés)

    The author studies the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) for manufacturing firms in Bangladesh using data from a recent survey. She obtains TFP measures by making use of firm-specific deflators...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3988 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Fernandes,Ana Margarida



  • Diversification, innovation, and imitation inside the Global Technological Frontier (Inglés)

    Recent research highlights the relationship between economic development and productive diversification, which may be hindered by market failures. After identifying stages of diversification in disaggregated...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3872 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Klinger,Bailey,Lederman,Daniel

  • The role of factoring for financing small and medium enterprises (Inglés)

    Around the world, factoring is a growing source of external financing for corporations and small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). What is unique about factoring is that the credit provided by a lender...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3593 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Klapper,Leora


  • Gifted kids or pushy parents? Foreign acquisitions and plant performance in Indonesia (Inglés)

    This paper uses micro data from the Indonesian Census of Manufacturing to analyze the causal relationship between foreign ownership and plant productivity. To control for the possible endogeneity of the...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3597 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Arnold,Jens Matthias,Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska

  • WTO safeguards and trade liberalization: lessons from the Argentine footwear case (Inglés)

    The footwear case provides an example of the complexities of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules on the use of safeguards, and of the interaction of multilateral and regional processes of liberalization...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3614 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Baracat,Elias Antonio,Nogues,Julio

  • Political economy of antidumping and safeguards in Argentina (Inglés)

    Beginning in the late 1980s, Argentina implemented a series of reforms that were revolutionary in speed and scope, including trade liberalization. After the implementation of these policies, a record number...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3587 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Baracat,Elias Antonio,Nogues,Julio

  • The contribution of skilled immigration and international graduate students to U.S. innovation (Inglés)

    The impact of international students and skilled immigration in the United States on innovative activity is estimated using a model of idea generation. In the main specification a system of three equations...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3588 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Chellaraj,Gnanaraj,Maskus,Keith E.,Mattoo,Aaditya

  • The cost of compliance with product standards for firms in developing countries: an econometric study (Inglés)

    Standards and technical regulations exist to protect consumer safety or to achieve other goals, such as ensuring the interoperability of telecommunications systems, for example. Standards and technical...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3590 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Maskus,Keith E.,Otsuki,Tsunehiro,Wilson,John Martin

  • Access to financial services: a review of the issues and public policy objectives (Inglés)

    This paper reviews the evidence on the importance of finance for economic well-being, provides data on the degree of use of basic financial services by households and firms across a sample of countries...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3589 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Claessens, Stijn

  • Anti-dumping policies and safeguard measures in the context of Costa Rica's economic liberalization (Inglés)

    This paper reviews the most important changes, both in the economy and in the legal and institutional framework, to deal with unfair trade practices that Costa Rica has experienced during its trade liberalization...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3591 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Monge-Arino, Francisco,Monge-Gonzalez,Ricardo


  • Core indicators for determinants and performance of the electricity sector in developing countries (Inglés)

    Since the early 1990s, substantial resources and efforts have been spent on implementing market-oriented electricity reforms in developing countries. While there are important sectoral, economic, and social...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3599 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Jamasb,Tooraj,Newbery,David M.,Pollitt,Michael Gerald

  • Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the tarcoles river basin, Costa Rica (Inglés)

    This paper describes and analyzes the effort to institute river basin management in the Tárcoles basin of Costa Rica. Located in west-central Costa Rica, the Tárcoles basin represents 4.2 percent of the...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3612 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ballestero Vargas,Maureen,Bhat,Anjali,Blomquist,William,Kemper,Karin Erika

  • Democratization and clientelism: why are young democracies badly governed? (Inglés)

    This paper identifies systematic performance differences between younger and older democracies: younger democracies are more corrupt; exhibit less rule of law, lower levels of bureaucratic quality, and...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3594 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Keefer,Philip E.