Documents et rapports
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Assessing Bias in Smartphone Mobility Estimates in Low Income Countries (anglais)
It has become common for governments and practitioners to measure mobility using data from smartphones, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet in countries where few people have smartphones, or use...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 168212 Date du document: 28 juin 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Milusheva, Sveta,Bjorkegren,Daniel C I,Teixeira Viotti,Leonardo
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Geothermal Power Production (anglais)
Geothermal power production may result in significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. GHG emissions from geothermal power production, mostly in the form of CO2, are generally low in comparison to traditional...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 149930 Date du document: 23 juin 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fridriksson, Thráinn,Mateos Merino,Almudena,Orucu,Ayse Yasemin,Audinet,Pierre
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Entertainment, Education, and Attitudes Toward Domestic Violence (anglais)
The authors study attitudes towards domestic violence in a sample of young women and men exposed to the edutainment TV series MTV Shuga 3, which features a sub-plot on this theme, and in a sample that...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 137010 Date du document: 1 mai 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Banerjee,Abhijit,La Ferrara,Eliana,Orozco Olvera,Victor Hugo
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Heat exposure and youth migration in Central America and the Caribbean (anglais)
Emerging evidence demonstrates migration may be used by individuals in the southern hemisphere to adapt to environmental changes. The authors build upon recent work in the region using a similar triple...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 122568 Date du document: 1 mai 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Baez Ramirez,Javier Eduardo,Niu,Chiyu,Caruso,German Daniel,Mueller,Valerie Martina
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The impact of ethnic diversity in bureaucracies : evidence from the Nigerian civil service (anglais)
The authors document the correlation between the workplace diversity of bureaucracies and public services delivered. The authors do so in the context of the federal civil service in Nigeria, the most important...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 100271 Date du document: 1 mai 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rasul,Imran,Rogger,Daniel Oliver
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Is ignorance bliss? : the effect of asymmetric information between spouses on intra-household allocations (anglais)
Fundamental questions about how resources are allocated within the family remain unresolved. Because family decision making is a repeated game and there is caring, it is generally posited that the marriage...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 92930 Date du document: 1 mai 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Castilla, Carolina,Walker,Thomas
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Behavioral biases and firm behavior : evidence from Kenyan retail shops (anglais)
Many subjects in lab experiments show considerable risk aversion in small-stakes gambles. This is counter to the predictions of expected utility theory for any reasonable degree of risk aversion but is...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 92931 Date du document: 1 mai 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kremer,Michael Robert,Lee, Jean,Robinson,Jonathan M.,Rostapshova,Olga V.
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Competitiveness and sustainable economic recovery in Thailand (anglais)
The conference "Thailand's Dynamic Economic Recovery and Competitiveness" (Bangkok, May 20-21, 1998) was organized by the Office of the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) with assistance...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 41589 Date du document: 1 mai 1998 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Witte, Johanna,Koeberle,Stefan G.,Novy,Milena
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Prospects for food production and consumption in developing countries. World agricultural trade and food security (anglais)
The available evidence indicates that, in aggregate, the growth in world food production over the past two decades has more than kept pace with the growth in population. This paper analyzes recent trends...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP275 Date du document: 31 mai 1983 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bale,Malcolm D.,Duncan, R.,Southworth, V.
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Principles of modern electricity pricing (anglais)
This paper presents a framework for electric power pricing, reviews the basic theory of marginal cost pricing applicable to the power sector, and summarizes recent developments. The adaptation of the theory...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP185 Date du document: 31 mars 1981 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan
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The cost of sample survey designs (anglais)
Methods to analyze and reduce the costs of surveys must receive greater attention if research budgets are to be utilized efficiently. This paper analyzes two of the factors that contribute to the unit...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP151 Date du document: 31 janvier 1979 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Humphreys, C.