UID:
almafu_9958088560202883
Format:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-08786-2
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9786610087860
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0-585-45061-7
Series Statement:
World Bank e-Library.
Content:
This volume evaluates some of the key dimensions of human development and growth. It provides eight exceptional papers from the second World Bank Economists' Forum held in May 2001 in Washington, DC. These papers were selected from among the 46 papers presented at the Forum. Many of those selected concentrate on the issues surrounding "empowerment." The focus is upon ensuring that poor people have the education, health care, social protection, and other mechanisms necessary for them to participate in economic growth and social development.
Note:
Selected papers presented at the First World Bank Economists' Forum, held in Washington DC, May 3-4, 1999.
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Household Behavior and Health; Estimating the Extent of Patient Ignorance of the Health Care Market; Public Transfers and Migrants Ì Remittances: Evidence from the Recent Armenian Experience; Part II Communities and Welfare; Better a Hundred Friends Than a Hundred Rubles? Social Networks in Transition Û The Kyrgyz Republic; An Empirical Investigation of Collective Action Possibilities for Industrial Water Pollution Abatement: Case Study of a Cluster of Small- Scale Industries in India; Part III Local Governments and Basic Services
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An Assessment of the Impact of Decentralization on the Quality of Education in Chile Who Benefits from Increased Access to Public Services at the Local Level? A Marginal Benefit Incidence Analysis for Education and Basic Infrastructure; Part IV Firms and Governments under Uncertainty; Contractual Savings, Capital Markets, and Financing Choices of Firms; Public Expenditures and Risk Reduction
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-5074-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1596/0-8213-5074-9
