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  1. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    India

    Growing research and policy interest
    focuses on the misallocation of output and factors of
    production in developing economies. This paper considers the
    possible misallocation of financial loans. Using plant-level
    data on the organized and unorganized sectors, the paper
    describes the temporal, geographic, and industry
    distributions of financial loans. The focus of the analysis
    is the hypothesis that land misallocation might be an

  2. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    China

    This paper is motivated by the emphasis
    on secure property rights as a determinant of economic
    development in recent literature. The authors use village
    and household level information from about 800 villages
    throughout China to explore whether legal reform increased
    protection of land rights against unauthorized reallocation
    or expropriation with below-average compensation by the
    state. The analysis provides nation-wide evidence on a

  3. Library Resource
    March, 2016
    Afghanistan

    Afghanistan is a deeply fragile and
    conflict affected state. It has been in almost constant
    conflict for over 35 years since the Soviet invasion of
    1979. Today the country is at a crossroads in its
    development with economic growth down sharply and poverty
    incidence stubbornly high. Afghanistan faces tremendous
    development challenges. Gross domestic product (GDP)
    per-capita is among the lowest in the world, poverty is deep

  4. Library Resource
    April, 2016
    Myanmar, Global

    Myanmar grew at an estimated 8.5 percent
    in real terms in 2014-15. Economic reforms have supported
    consumer and investor confidence despite business
    environment and socio-political challenges. The economic
    impact of the floods that hit Myanmar from July 2015 is
    still being assessed, but will likely adversely affect the
    main rice crop this year. According to preliminary analysis
    of census data, the areas most affected by the floods are

  5. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Asia, Central Asia, Europe

    New qualitative fieldwork in eight
    countries of Europe and Central Asia (ECA) indicates that
    the dramatic declines in poverty in much of the region over
    the last decade do not appear to be registering very
    favorably with men and women on the ground. This paper
    provides a gender analysis of findings from equal numbers of
    sex-specific focus groups with employed and jobless
    individuals. The methodology featured a standardized package

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2015
    Myanmar

    This is the first investment climate
    assessment (ICA) for Myanmar. The main objectives of this
    ICA are to: (i) provide an up-to-date and fact-based
    analysis of the business environment for the government and
    other stakeholders in Myanmar to help prioritize and
    contextualize the reform agenda, and (ii) to offer a
    baseline for future assessments of progress in terms of the
    investment climate reform agenda. As requested by the

  7. Library Resource
    July, 2016
    Jordan

    The Government of Jordan, the World Bank
    Group (WBG), and the international community are working
    towards a paradigm shift in their collective response to the
    refugee crisis - a holistic approach which stresses the
    continuum between the humanitarian response and the
    country’s development agenda. In parallel, Jordan’s implicit
    social contract by which the state provided citizens with
    jobs and heavily subsidized public services is evolving.

  8. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Myanmar

    The Country Partnership Framework (CPF)
    will succeed the Myanmar interim strategy note (FY13-14) and
    be the first full country strategy for Myanmar since 1984.
    This CPF comes at a time of great opportunity for Myanmar;
    over the three year period covered in this CPF, the reforms
    initiated in 2011 have the potential to bring Myanmar into a
    new era of peace and prosperity. Myanmar s history, ethnic
    diversity, and geography combine into a unique set of

  9. Library Resource
    January, 2014
    India

    Industrial parks are as popular as they
    are controversial, in India and globally. At their best they
    align infrastructure provision and agglomeration economies
    to jolt industrial growth. More often, they generate
    negative spill-overs, provide handouts, sit empty, or simply
    do not get built. This paper disaggregates how parks are
    built and how they fail. It contextualizes parks in India,
    followed by a thick case study of an innovative scheme that

  10. Library Resource
    The Asian Coalition for Community Action's Approach to Slum Upgrading cover image
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2014
    Asia

    This paper is a review of the experience of the Asian Coalition for Community Action (ACCA) Program operated by the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR).

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