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 Global Estimates of Pro-Poor Growth
ere com piled by the W orld Bank. The data com e from prim ary sources and are available at http://w w w .w orldbank.org/research/povm onitor. 3. W e have used the W orld Bank’s country classification. 4. W e w ere able to get the figures for consum er price indicies for all spe...
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ere com piled by the W orld Bank. The data com e from prim ary sources and are available at http://w w w .w orldbank.org/research/povm onitor. 3. W e have used the W orld Bank’s country classification. 4. W e w ere able to get the figures for consum er price indicies for all spells and countries except 4 spells and 2 countries. 5. W e have com piled the data for the share of agriculture in GDP for 227 spells.
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http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCWorkingPaper31.pdf#page=26
www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCWorkingPaper31.pdf#page=26
ere <span class="highlight">com</span> piled by the W orld Bank. The data <span class="highlight">com</span> e from prim ary sources and are available at http://w w w .w orldbank.org/research/povm onitor. 3. W e have used the W orld Bank’s country classification. 4. W e w ere able to get the figures for consum er price indicies for all spells and countries except 4 spells and 2 countries. 5. W e have <span class="highlight">com</span> piled the data for the share of agriculture in GDP for 227 spells.
Can Privatisation and Commercialisation of Public Services Help Achieve The MDGs? An Asses...
for-profit private sector are involved in unnecessary procedures, such as high rates of caesarian sections, unwarranted tests and surgeries (W orld Bank 2004). In the water sector, regulators are usually unable to com pel firm s to disclose inform ation about perform ance or prices. Yet witho...
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for-profit private sector are involved in unnecessary procedures, such as high rates of caesarian sections, unwarranted tests and surgeries (W orld Bank 2004). In the water sector, regulators are usually unable to com pel firm s to disclose inform ation about perform ance or prices. Yet without such data, it is not possible to verify, for exam ple, if cost-based tariff increases are justified. In G abon, the regulator found it difficult to m onitor the activities of the private operator: “In the absence
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http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCWorkingPaper22.pdf#page=15
www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCWorkingPaper22.pdf#page=15
Kate Bayliss and Tim Kessler 13 Private providers have strong incentives to lim it what regulators know about the utilities they operate. According to a W orld Bank researcher on infrastructure: “The fundam ental problem of regulation is one of asym m etric inform ation between the regulated <span class="highlight">com</span> pany and the regulatory agency. The regulated <span class="highlight">com</span> pany will have a strong incentive to abuse [its] strategic advantage by under-supplying inform ation or distorting the inform ation supplied” (Foster
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http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCWorkingPaper22.pdf#page=16
www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCWorkingPaper22.pdf#page=16
for-profit private sector are involved in unnecessary procedures, such as high rates of caesarian sections, unwarranted tests and surgeries (W orld Bank 2004). In the water sector, regulators are usually unable to <span class="highlight">com</span> pel firm s to disclose inform ation about perform ance or prices. Yet without such data, it is not possible to verify, for exam ple, if cost-based tariff increases are justified. In G abon, the regulator found it difficult to m onitor the activities of the private operator: “In the absence
New Global Poverty Counts
Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son 3 The international poverty threshold developed on the basis of 19 countries is used to produce global poverty counts utilizing the W orld Bank data base consisting of over 450 surveys for about 100 counties covering 93 percent of the population of low and m iddle- i...
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Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son 3 The international poverty threshold developed on the basis of 19 countries is used to produce global poverty counts utilizing the W orld Bank data base consisting of over 450 surveys for about 100 counties covering 93 percent of the population of low and m iddle- incom e countries in the world. 2 PU RCH ASING POWER PARITY The purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates are the essential ingredients of determ ining internationally com parable poverty lines. The
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http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCWorkingPaper29.pdf#page=5
www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCWorkingPaper29.pdf#page=5
Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son 3 The international poverty threshold developed on the basis of 19 countries is used to produce global poverty counts utilizing the W orld Bank data base consisting of over 450 surveys for about 100 counties covering 93 percent of the population of low and m iddle- incom e countries in the world. 2 PU RCH ASING POWER PARITY The purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates are the essential ingredients of determ ining internationally <span class="highlight">com</span> parable poverty lines. The
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