The Global Development Network Working Paper Series disseminates GDN-funded research by combining the best research produced by GDN Researchers and contributions from leading scholars.
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Does Participatory Budgeting have an Effect on the Quality of Public Services? The Case of Peru’s Water and Sanitation Sector
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Miguel Jaramillo and Lorena Alcázar |
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December 2012 |
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Since 2004, the government of Peru has implemented a process of participatory budgeting (PB), which is mandatory for every sub-national government. The paper analyzes the link from PB to coverage and water service quality indicators. |
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Models for Stability and Growth, Structural Reforms, Conditionality, and EU Surveillance Criteria
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Vladimir Gligorov |
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December 2011 |
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Policy frameworks of the IMF, the World Bank, and the EU are discussed in order to come up with criteria of macro-economic and financial stability and sustainability for future Member States of the EU (candidate and potential candidate countries). |
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Fiscal Issues in Financial Crisis
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Vladimir Gligorov |
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December 2011 |
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Fiscal risks are currently significant. However, if a return to the potential growth rates are to be achieved in the medium run, then the fiscal risks may be different. Against this backdrop, the paper discusses sustainability, structural and fiscal balances and policy conclusions. |
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Subgroup and Shapely Value Decompositions of Multidimensional Inequality: An Application to South East European Countries
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Sebastian Leitner and Robert Stehrer |
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December 2011 |
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This paper studies one- and multidimensional indices on inequality on data for three large south east European countries, namely, Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia. |
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Inequality, Growth and Public Spending in Central, East and South East Europe
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Mario Holzner |
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December 2011 |
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The article analyses the joint determinants of inequality and growth with a special emphasis on public spending structures in transition. |
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Measuring Inequality in CIS Countries: Theory and Empirics
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Marat Ibragimov, Rustam Ibragimov and Rufat Khamidov |
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December 2011 |
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This paper focuses on a robust analysis of distributions and heavy-tailedness characteristics for data on income and wealth for the world, Russia and post-Soviet central Asian economies. |
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Does Health Matter for Inequality in Transition Countries: The Case of Ukraine
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Tamara Podvysotskaya, Elena Osinkina, Larysa Krasnikova and Yuriy Podvysotskiy |
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December 2011 |
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Based on both macro- and micro-data analysis, the paper focuses on how different aspects of health affect income inequality in Ukraine. |
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Wage Differences between the Private and the Public Sector in Serbia: Some Evidence from Survey Data
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Kosovka Ognjenović |
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December 2011 |
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The wage gap between the public and the private sector in Serbia, for women and men separately, are estimated in this paper. |
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Do Social Transfers “Crowd-Out” Remittances: Evidence from Bosnia
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Nermin Oruc |
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December 2011 |
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This paper presents the results of estimation of the model of interaction between social transfers and remittances. |
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Sources of Income Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Bulgaria
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Vesselin Mintchev, Venelin Boshnakov and Alexander Naydenov |
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December 2011 |
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The paper contributes to the empirical research on the micro-determinants of income inequality in south east European transition countries. |
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