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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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  Agrarian structure in Poland : the myth of large farm superiority

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Policy makers who currently promote large, mechanized farms in Poland to the detriment of smaller farms should reevaluate these policies. Smaller farms are more labour-intensive than large farms, and no less efficient.In Poland, present policies are aimed at promoting large, mechanized farms over smaller family farms.
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  Why have some Indian states done better than others at reducing rural poverty?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Experience in India suggests that reducing rural poverty requires both economic growth (farm and non farm) and human resource development.The unevenness of the rise in rural living standards in the various states of India since the 1950s allowed Datt and Ravallion to study the causes of poverty.They modeled the evolution of average consumption and various poverty measures using pooled state
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  The stock market as a source of finance : a comparison of U.S. and Indian firms

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Internal finance is less important for Indian firms than U.S. firms, and external debt more --- but for neither is the stockmarket an important source.In seeking funding, a firm's main choice is between external and internal financing. And, says Samuel, the evidence suggests that the stock market plays only a limited role providing finance for both U.S.

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