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  Gender disparity in South Asia : comparisons betwen and within countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  While gender disparities in health and education outcomes are higher on average in South Asian than in other countries, the large within country differences in gender disparity, between Indian states or Pakistani provinces, demand more local explanations.
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  Tackling health transition in China

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  After three decades of great improvements in China's health status, health gains have eroded recently. The three main causes of this have been changes in government financing of the health sector, the shift to a more market-oriented economy, and a shift toward more noncommunicable diseases and injuries, the prevention of which has not been a traditional part of China's public health programs.
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  Age - size effects in productive efficiency : a second test of the passive learning model

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1996
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  Religion and Development - A bibliography

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Includes an introductory essay by Dorthe von Bülow.
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  Distinguishing between Types of Data and Methods of Collecting Them

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  In the "quantitative-qualitative" debate, analysts often fail to make a clear distinction between methods of data collection used and types of data generated.
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  An international statistical survey of government employment and wages

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  Detailed statistical and econometric evidence on government employment and pay, both global and regional. This paper complements a separate study in this Series ("Government Employment and Pay: A Global and Regional Perspective," Policy Research Working Paper 1771, May 1997) by providing the detailed statistical and econometric evidence on which that separate study is based.
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  The impact of minimum wage legislation in developing countries where coverage is incomplete

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998

  Examines the impact of minimum wage legislation in developing countries where coverage is incomplete.  Using a rich data set from Ghana, it estimates the extent to which a binding minimum wage alters employment in both the formal and informal sectors of the labor market.  The data reveal that Ghana's minimum wage policies during the 1970s and 1980s led to a reduction of formal sector jobs and an i
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  Enterprise performance and the functional diversity of social capital

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998

  Entrepreneurial networks are multifunctional; they can be used to access information about technologies and markets or to reduce uncertainties.  A network's function affects its structure and both the magnitude and nature of the impact that it has on enterprise performance. Networks that reduce uncertainty are small and cohesive.
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  Political, economic and social institutions : a review of growth evidence

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998

  Integrates North's institutional framework with the notion of institutions in the augmented Solow growth model, to clarify the direct and indirect channels by which institutions influence growth. Four ways to extend the Solow model in order to incorporate a rôle for institutions are outlined; and growth regressions are reinterpreted in this light.
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  Financial liberalisation and interest rate risk management in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1996

  The appropriateness of financial liberalisation in Africa - at least over the short-term - is in doubt. It has been suggested that the credit risks faced by financial institutions will be detrimental to the supply of credit. The contribution of this paper is to point out that financial liberalisation creates a significant interest rate risk.

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