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    Decomposing Social Indicators Using Distributional Data

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    Crosscountry comparisons suggest that poor people tend to be in worse health than others and that their health responds more to differences in public health spending.Are the poor less healthy?
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    Saving in transition economies : the summary report

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Savings in transition economies have declined since independence, but something else has happened, too: Financial assets have shifted from bank deposits to alternative financial instruments, including foreign currency, "trust company" shares, and private loans.
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    The cross - section of stock returns : evidence from the emerging markets

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Several factors besides market risk --- including firm size, earnings price ratio, and turnover --- are significant in explaining a cross-section of stock returns in 19 emerging markets. The signs for some factors are contrary to those documented in U.S. and Japanese markets.Cross-sectional tests of asset returns have a long tradition in finance.
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    Does more for the poor mean less for the poor? : the politics of tagging

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Attempts to achieve "more for the poor" through the use of indicator targeting may in fact mean less for the poor. The efficient use of a fixed budget for poverty reduction may require targeting. However, the use of indicator targeting, using fixed characteristics that are correlated with poverty to determine the distribution of expenditures, will tend to reduce the budget.
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    Governance and the returns to investment : an empirical investigation

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    There is a strong statistical link between a country's civil liberties and the performance of its aid financed government investment projects.
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    The relationship between farm size and efficiency in South African agriculture

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Commercial farms in South Africa could become significantly more efficient if they became smaller. The government could encourage that trend by removing policies and distortions that favor large over small farms.Drawing on international evidence, van Zyl, Binswanger, and Thirtle discuss the sources of economies of scale.
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    Testing the induced innovation hypothesis in South African agriculture : an error correction approach

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Apparently factor prices do matter in agricultural production and in the selection of production technology. And in South Africa, more attention should be focused on the technological needs of small scale farmers.
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    Averting the Old Age Crisis: Technical Annex

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    Supporting documentation for the World Bank publication Averting the Old Age Crisis: Policies to Protect the Old and Promote Growth (1994).Averting the Old Age Crisis: Policies to Protect the Old and Promote Growth, the publication for which this technical annex provides supporting documentation, is the third in a series of major World Bank Policy Research Reports.
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    Income inequality and aggregate saving : the cross - country evidence

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    No evidence is found to support the notion that income inequality affects aggregate saving across countries --- neither in developing nor in industrial countries.Schmidt-Hebbel and Serven empirically review and analyze the link between income distribution and aggregate savings.Recent research has focused on the impact of income inequality and growth.
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    Water pollution abatement by Chinese industry : cost estimates and policy implications / Susmita Dasgupta ... [et al.]

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Data on pollution abatement costs in Chinese industry suggest that the benefits of stricter discharge standards should be weighed carefully against the costs. China's current regulatory system provides an economic incentive to abate by charging a levy on pollution that exceeds the standard.

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