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  Stock market development and financial intermediaries : stylized facts

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The three most developed stock markets are in Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and the most underdeveloped markets are in Colombia, Nigeria, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.
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  Stock market development and firm financing choices

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Are banks and stock markets complements or substitutes?
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  Environmental regulation and development : a cross - country empirical analysis

  New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 1995

  Paper develops comparative indices of environmental policy and performance for thirty-one countries, using a quantified analysis of reports prepared for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).
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  Environmental inspections and emissions of the pulp and paper industry : the case of Quebec

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Both inspections and the threat of inspections reduce pollution emissions. Moreover, inspections induce plants to report their emissions levels more frequently to regulators.Since the early 1970s, industrial countries have enacted (or amended) many environmental laws and regulations to control and improve air and water quality.
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  Trade reform design as a signal to foreign investors : lessons for economies in transition

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The design of trade policy reform can encourage or discourage foreign direct investment by revealing the government's commitment to protect the interests of foreign investors. The optimal policy is analyzed under four scenarios.
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  Educational attainment in developing countries : new estimates and projections disaggregated by gender

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Expectations are that educational attainment will grow most in the Middle East and North Africa and least in Sub Saharan Africa. It should improve greatly in South Asia, where the level of attainment is lowest. The gender gap in education may have risen in the past decade.
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  Estimating the world at work

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  What is the work status of the world's working age population?
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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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