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    Analytical tools for human development [the conceptual basis for UNDP Human Development Index / development indicators]

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999
    This paper briefly presents the analytical tools developed in the Human Development Reports since their inception in 1990 and describes their potential uses in national settings. Includes descriptions of the Human Development Index (HDI), Human Poverty Index (HPI), Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM).
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    Government's role in Pakistan agriculture : major reforms are needed

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    The proper role of Pakistan's government in the agriculture sector should be to encourage the development of a smoothly functioning market, through institutional and regulatory reform that facilitates market efficiency and private sector activities.
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    Pension systems and reforms : country experiences and research issues

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Country experiences of old age social security arrangements, and 15 research and policy design issues not addressed in the literature.Pension reform is spreading around the globe, from Latin America to the OECD countries, and major reform projects are being discussed in many other developing, transition, and OECD countries.Arrau and Schmidt-Hebbel survey current research issues and country e
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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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    Workers in transition

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    The outlook is bright for transition economies that are fully embracing market based reform, including appropriate, coherently applied labor policies. In other transition economies, a mix of paternalism and populism could produce partial, timid reform that makes them increasingly unproductive and corrupt.
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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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    Protecting the old and promoting growth : a defense of averting the old age crisis

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    A summary of recommendations in the recent World Bank report on old age security programs, and an analysis of why the International Labour Organisation and the International Social Security Association came to different policy conclusions.
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    Rural finance for growth and poverty alleviation in Pakistan

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    To promote agricultural --- and hence economic --- growth, Pakistan must make more credit available to agricultural smallholders, the rural non farm sector, and women. Subsidizing interest rates is not the way to help marginal borrowers.
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    Nations, conglomerates, and empires : the tradeoff between income and sovereignty

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Why after the break-up of such multinational states as the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia, whose republics justified their decision by claiming that they wanted to regain their sovereignty, did the new states express strong desire to join the European Union, thus dissipating the very sovereignty they had sought?One of the apparent inconsistencies in the break-up of such multinatio
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    Do labor market regulations affect labor earnings in Ecuador?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    Although Ecuador may have the most cumbersome labor market regulations in Latin America, these are not a major source of segmentation of the labor market. The reason: the benefits mandated are fully fungible with wages. Ecuadorian labor costs are said to be high because of a large array of mandated benefits.

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