How foreign participation and market concentration impact bank spreads : evidence from Latin America [PDF]
Increasing foreign participation and high concentration levels characterize the recent evolution of banking sectors'market structures in developing countries.
Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad +1 more
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Specialization without regret - transfer rights, agricultural productivity, and investment in an industrializing economy [PDF]
A number of studies have examined the effects of secure tenure on agricultural investment and productivity. The authors also study the importance of rights to household residual income and land use being transferable.
Carter, Michael R., Yang Yao
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Where do we stand on transport infrastructure deregulation and public-private partnership? [PDF]
The evolution of transport public-private partnerships (PPPs) in developing and developed countries since the early 1990s seems to be following a similar path: private initiatives work for a while but after a shock to the sector takes place the public ...
Estache, Antonio, Serebrisky, Tomas
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Impact of Diagnosis-Intervention Packet (DIP) Payment Reform on County Hospitals: Evidence from Z City, China. [PDF]
J Healthc LeadershPeng X, Tan H, Chen Y.
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Public enterprise reform in adjustment lending [PDF]
Specific divestiture dates and institutional public enterprise reform should probably not be a matter of hard conditionality for sectoral adjustment lending.
Nellis, John
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Climate resilience through bioeconomy: A mixed-methods protocol for assessing adaptation policies in rural settlements on the Amazon. [PDF]
PLoS OneSilva D +5 more
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Decentralization and fiscal management in Colombia [PDF]
Colombia's political geography contrasts sharply with its economy. Physical characteristics and guerilla war fragment the country geographically, yet it has a long tradition of political centrism and macroeconomic stability.
Dillinger, William, Webb, Steven B.
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The impact of property rights on households'investment, risk coping, and policy preferences : evidence from China [PDF]
Even though it is widely recognized that giving farmers more secure land rights may increase agricultural investment, scholars contend that, in the case of China, such a policy might undermine the function of land as a social safety net and, as a ...
Deininger, Klaus, Songqing Jin
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Will the Sovereign Debt Market Survive? [PDF]
Economic theory and evidence from a variety of debt markets shed light on current reform proposals concerning emerging market debt. Debt markets, including the U.S. municipal bond market, generally function best when the rights of creditors are protected
Andrei Shleifer
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