Documents et rapports
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Voice lessons : local government organizations, social organizations, and the quality of local governance (anglais)
As part the Local Level Institutions study of local life in villages in rural Indonesia information was gathered on sampled household's participation in social activities. We classified the reported activities...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2981 Date du document: 31 mars 2003 Auteur: Alatas, Vivi,Pritchett, Lant,Wetterberg, Anna
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Quantifying vulnerability to poverty - a proposed measure, applied to Indonesia (anglais)
Vulnerability is an important aspect of households' experience of poverty. Many households, while not currently in poverty, recognize that they are vulnerable to events - a bad harvest, a lost job, an...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2437 Date du document: 30 septembre 2000 Auteur: Pritchett, Lant,Suryahadi, Asep,Sumarto, Sudarno
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Safety nets and safety ropes - who benefited from two Indonesian crisis programs - the "poor" or the "shocked"? (anglais)
Imagine several mountain climbers, scaling a cliff face, who want protection from falling. One way to protect them would be to place a net at the bottom of the cliff to catch any climber just before he...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2436 Date du document: 30 septembre 2000 Auteur: Sumarto, Sudarno,Suryahadi, Asep,Pritchett, Lant
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Como atraer y retener docentes calificados en la Argentina : impacto del nivel y la estructura de la remuneracion (espagnol)
The study outlines current conflicting issues regarding teacher salaries in Argentina, and argues on how to attract, and retain qualified teachers, by initially comparing teacher salaries, to those of...
Type de document: Série d'études du Groupe du développement humain et social de LAC Numéro du rapport: 20935 Date du document: 30 avril 1999 Auteur: Vegas, Emiliana,Pritchett, Lant,Experton, Willia
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Assessing aid - what works, what doesn't, and why : Evaluacion de la ayuda al desarrollo : analisis de los exitos y fracasos (espagnol)
This report assesses foreign aid, pointing out that aid is as much a matter of knowledge as it is about money. It discusses the continuing role of financial transfers from rich to poor countries, despite...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 18295 Date du document: 1 janvier 1999 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dollar, David,Pritchett, Lant
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Assessing aid - what works, what doesn't, and why (anglais)
This report assesses foreign aid, pointing out that aid is as much a matter of knowledge as it is about money. It discusses the continuing role of financial transfers from rich to poor countries, despite...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 18295 Date du document: 30 novembre 1998 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dollar, David,Pritchett, Lant
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Assessing aid - what works, what doesn't, and why (vietnamien)
This report assesses foreign aid, pointing out that aid is as much a matter of knowledge as it is about money. It discusses the continuing role of financial transfers from rich to poor countries, despite...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 18295 Date du document: 30 novembre 1998 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dollar, David,Pritchett, Lant
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Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data - or tears : with an application to educational enrollments in states of India (anglais)
This paper has an empirical and overtly methodological goal. The authors propose and defend a method for estimating the effect of household economic status on educational outcomes without direct survey...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1994 Date du document: 31 octobre 1998 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Filmer, Deon,Pritchett, Lant
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The effect of household wealth on educational attainment : demographic and health survey evidence (anglais)
In this paper are interested not just in countries' average educational enrollment and attainment, for which there has been a great deal of examination both from official and academic sources, but in how...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1980 Date du document: 30 septembre 1998 Auteur: Filmer, Deon,Pritchett, Lant
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Health policy in poor countries : weak links in the chain (anglais)
The authors show how the recent empirical and theoretical literature on health policy sheds light on the disappointing experience with the implementation of primary health care. They emphasize the evidence...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1874 Date du document: 31 janvier 1998 Auteur: Filmer, Deon,Hammer, Jeffrey S.,Pritchett, Lant
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Gender disparity in South Asia : comparisons between and within countries (anglais)
Using data assembled from the Demographic Health Surveys of over 50 countries and from the National Family Health Surveys of individual states in India, the authors create a new data set of comparable...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1867 Date du document: 31 janvier 1998 Auteur: Filmer, Deon,King, Elizabeth M.,Pritchett, Lant
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Child mortality and public spending on health : how much does money matter? (anglais)
The authors use cross-national data to examine the impact on child (under 5) and infant mortality of both nonhealth (economic, cultural, and educational) factors and public spending on health. They come...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1864 Date du document: 31 décembre 1997 Auteur: Filmer, Deon,Pritchett, Lant
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What educational production functions really show : a positive theory of education spending (anglais)
The accumulated results of empirical studies show that the public sector typically chooses spending on inputs such that the productivity of additional spending on books and instructional materials is 10...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1795 Date du document: 31 juillet 1997 Auteur: Pritchett, Lant,Filmer, Deon
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Cents and sociability : household income and social capital in rural Tanzania (anglais)
The authors construct a measure of "social capital" in rural Tanzania, using data from the Tanzania Social Capital and Poverty Survey (SCPS), a large-scale survey that asked individuals about the extent...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1796 Date du document: 30 juin 1997 Auteur: Narayan, Deepa,Pritchett, Lant
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Environmental degradation and the demand for children : searching for the vicious circle (anglais)
The authors explore the hypothesis that--because of the important role children play in collection activities (firewood, water, grazing)--the demand for children may increase as local environmental resources...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1623 Date du document: 31 juillet 1996 Auteur: Filmer, Deon,Pritchett, Lant
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Where in the world is population growth bad? (anglais)
Would economic growth be better if population growth were slower? There are two apparently opposite answers to this question. Advocates of policies to reduce population growth rates are completely convinced...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1391 Date du document: 31 décembre 1994 Auteur: Kling, Jeff,Pritchett, Lant
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Does participation improve project performance : establishing causality with subjective data (anglais)
Development practitioners are coming to a consensus that participation by the intended beneficiaries improves project performance. But is there convincing evidence that this is true? Skeptics have three...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1357 Date du document: 30 septembre 1994 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Isham, Jonathan,Narayan, Deepa,Pritchett, Lant
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Tariff rates, tariff revenue, and tariff reform : some new facts (anglais)
The ad valorem tariff rates on specific products and the ratio of tariff revenue to import value, the collected rate, are only tenuously related, contend the authors. Using tariff and revenue data (at...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1143 Date du document: 31 mai 1993 Auteur: Pritchett, Lant,Sethi, Geeta
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Import demand in developing countries (anglais)
As a less restrictive trade regime is associated with greater responsiveness to economic incentives, econometric evidence that does not allow for the impact of import controls cannot be used reliably to...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS122 Date du document: 30 novembre 1988 Auteur: Faini, Riccardo,Pritchett, Lant,Clavijo, Fernand