Documents et rapports
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The World Bank research observer 11 (1) (anglais)
Introduction. Lyn Squire Household responses to public health services : cost and quality tradeoffs. Harold Alderman and Victor Lavy The impact of health and nutrition on education. Jere R. Behrman Macroeconomic...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 15407 Date du document: 29 février 1996 Auteur: Alderman,Harold H.,Behrman,Jere R.,Corbo,Vittorio,Demery,Lionel,Hernández, Leonardo,Lavy,Victor Chaim,Mody, Asboka,Patro, Dilip K.,Schmidt-Hebbel,Klaus,Servén, Luis,Sewell, David 0.,Solimano, Andrés,Squire,Lyn
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The impact of the quality of health care on children's nutrition and survival in Ghana (anglais)
It is critical, especially during periods of budget restraint, to identify the beneficiaries of social sector investments and the extent to which these investments influence the development process. This...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: LSM106 Date du document: 30 avril 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lavy,Victor Chaim,Strauss, John,Thomas,Duncan,De Vreyer, Philippe
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Changing patterns of illiteracy in Morocco : assessment methods compared (anglais)
This study estimates the incidence, characteristics, and patterns of change over time of illiteracy in Morocco. The study compares the results from direct literacy assessment to the conventional methods...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: LSM115 Date du document: 30 avril 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lavy,Victor Chaim,SPRATT, JENNIFER E.,Leboucher, Nathalie
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School quality, achievement bias, and dropout behavior in Egypt (anglais)
School quality and grade completion are shown to be directly linked, leading to very different perspectives on educational policy in developing countries. Unique panel data on primary school age children...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: LSM107 Date du document: 31 décembre 1994 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hanushek,Eric A.,Lavy,Victor Chaim
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Children's health and achievement in school (anglais)
Casual observations suggest that extremely poor child health is detrimental to educational achievement. However, in fact the evidence is quite limited about the impact on education of child health within...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: LSM104 Date du document: 31 juillet 1994 Auteur: Behrman,Jere R.,Lavy,Victor Chaim
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Willingness to pay for the quality and intensity of medical care : low-income households in Ghana (anglais)
Important choices about the organization of health care systems and the role of government in the provision of health care depend crucially upon citizen demand for health services as well as the efficiency...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: LSM94 Date du document: 31 mars 1993 Auteur: Lavy,Victor Chaim,Quigley,John M.
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Investment in human capital : schooling supply constraints in rural Ghana (anglais)
Human capital investment is usually modeled in an intertemporal optimization framework in which households or individuals maximize the present value of life-time utility. The main cost emphasized in these...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: LSM93 Date du document: 31 décembre 1992 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lavy,Victor Chaim
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Public policy and anthropometric outcomes in Cote d'Ivoire (anglais)
Using data from Cote d'Ivoire, this paper examines the impact of public policies on three anthropometric outcomes: height for age and weight for height of children as well as body mass index of adults...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: LSM89 Date du document: 31 août 1992 Auteur: Thomas,Duncan,Lavy,Victor Chaim,Strauss, John
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The World Bank economic review 6(1) (anglais)
Inflation and the transition to a market economy: an overview. Lesson from experiences with high inflation. Price-wage dynamics and inflation in socialist economies: empirical models for Hungary and Poland...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 17600 Date du document: 31 janvier 1992 Auteur: Commander,Simon John,Dornbusch,Rudiger,Coricelli,Fabrizio,Calvo,Guillermo A.,Diwan,Ishac,Kletzer,Kenneth M.,Ravallion,Martin,Lavy,Victor Chaim,Alessie, Rob,Baker, Paul,Blundell, Richard,Heady, Christopher,Meghir, Costas,Cox,Donald C.,Jimenez,Emmanuel Y.,Gertler,Paul J.,Glewwe,Paul W.
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Alleviating transitory food crisis in Africa : international altruism and trade (anglais)
This paper focuses on criticism about the use of emergency food aid in sub-Saharan Africa. More specifically, it examines the response of the donor community to unexpected or transitory drops in domestic...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS494 Date du document: 31 août 1990 Auteur: Lavy,Victor Chaim
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Does food aid depress food production? The disincentive dilemma in the African context (anglais)
Food aid averages only ten percent of total financial aid to developing countries, but in certain African countries - Botswana, Cape Verde, Mauritius, and Mauritania - it represents more than half the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS460 Date du document: 31 juillet 1990 Auteur: Lavy,Victor Chaim