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Deon Filmer
Researcher at World Bank
Publications - 153
Citations - 20059
Deon Filmer is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Population. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 148 publications receiving 18682 citations. Previous affiliations of Deon Filmer include World Bank Group & International Monetary Fund.
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Raising Productivity in Africa’s Modern Wage Enterprises to Foster Job Growth for Youth
Deon Filmer,Louise Fox,Karen Brooks,Aparajita Goyal,Taye Mengistae,Patrick Premand,Dena Ringold,Siddharth Sharma,Sergiy Zorya +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the most important step is to improve the business climate through key reforms to improve access to finance and infrastructure services, improve trade logistics, and ease regulatory constraints to entrepreneurship.
Posted Content
Estimating the world at work
TL;DR: The work status of the world's working-age population and subgroups thereof was investigated in this article, where the authors gathered data for many countries and infers data where it is missing (which requires making heroic assumptions).
Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial 2004 : servicios para los pobres
Lant Pritchett,Ritva Reinikka,Shantayanan Devarajan,Deon Filmer,Stephen Commins,Jeffrey S. Hammer,Shekhar Shah,Agnès Soucat,Junaid Ahmad +8 more
TL;DR: The World Development Report (WDR) 2004 warns that broad improvements in human welfare will not occur unless poor people receive wider access to affordable, better quality services in health, education, water, sanitation, and electricity.
Journal Article
Weak Links in the Chain
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the evidence showing two weak links in the chain between government spending for services to improve health and actual improvements in health status, and suggest that market failures are the least severe for relatively inexpensive curative services, which often absorb the bulk of primary health care budgets.