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About: World Bank is a other organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poverty. The organization has 7813 authors who have published 21594 publications receiving 1198361 citations. The organization is also known as: World Bank, WB & The World Bank.
Topics: Population, Poverty, Free trade, Productivity, Commercial policy
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TL;DR: The third in the Child Development Series as discussed by the authors assesses strategies to promote child development and to prevent or ameliorate the loss of developmental potential in developing countries by identifying four well-documented risks: stunting, iodine deficiency, iron deficiency anaemia, and inadequate cognitive stimulation, plus four potential risks based on epidemiological evidence.
927 citations
Columbia University1, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill2, Georgetown University3, University of California, San Diego4, World Bank5, United States Agency for International Development6, Harvard University7, Moi University8, Indiana University9, Massachusetts Institute of Technology10, Mbarara University of Science and Technology11
TL;DR: It is suggested that SMS reminders may be an important tool to achieve optimal treatment response in resource-limited settings and be used to promote high adherence to antiretroviral therapy.
Abstract: This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Mobile phone technologies improve adherence to antiretroviral treatment in a resource-limited setting : a randomized controlled trial of text message reminders, conducted between June 2007 to August 2008 in Kenya. The study observed that there is limited evidence on whether growing mobile phone availability in sub-Saharan Africa can be used to promote high adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART). This study tested the efficacy of short message service (SMS) reminders on adherence to ART among patients attending a rural clinic in Kenya. In intention-to-treat analysis, 53 percent of participants receiving weekly SMS reminders achieved adherence of at least 90 percent during the 48 weeks of the study, compared with 40 percent of participants in the control group, the difference is significant. Funding for the study derived from the World Bank Research Group, Bank-Netherlands Partnership Program, USAID AMPATH Partnership, National Institute of Mental Health.
921 citations
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TL;DR: The authors found that poor people typically do share in rising average living standards and that this holds in all regions of the world, and that there was no general tendency for inequality or polarization to increase with growth.
Abstract: Is it true that the poor have lost ground, even as average living standards have risen? No. Poor people typically share in rising average living standards. It has been claimed that in recent times the poor have lost ground, both relatively and absolutely, even as average standards of living were rising. Ravallion and Chen test that claim, using more than 100 household surveys for more than 40 countries. Overall there was a small decrease in poverty incidence in 1987-93, though experiences differed across regions and countries. There was no general tendency for inequality or polarization to increase with growth. Distribution improves as often as it worsens in growing economies, and negative growth often appears to be highly detrimental to distribution. Poor people typically do share in rising average living standards. This holds in all regions. This paper - a product of the Poverty and Human Resources Division, Policy Research Department - is part of a larger effort in the department to monitor progress in reducing poverty in the world.
915 citations
TL;DR: A new Stata routine is described, xtcsd, to test for the presence of cross-sections dependence in panels with many cross-sectional units and few time-series observations, using Friedman's test statistic, the statistic proposed by Frees, and the cross-section dependence test of Pe-saran.
Abstract: This article describes a new Stata routine, xtcsd, to test for the presence of cross-sectional dependence in panels with many cross-sectional units and few time-series observations. The command exe...
913 citations
TL;DR: This paper examined the pattern of foreign investment in four developing countries (Cote d'Ivoire, Mexico, Morocco, and Venezuela) and found that foreign plants in these four countries are significantly more energy-efficient and use cleaner types of energy than their domestic counterparts.
912 citations
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph E. Stiglitz | 164 | 1142 | 152469 |
| Barry M. Popkin | 157 | 751 | 90453 |
| Dan J. Stein | 142 | 1727 | 132718 |
| Asli Demirguc-Kunt | 137 | 429 | 78166 |
| Elinor Ostrom | 126 | 430 | 104959 |
| David Scott | 124 | 1561 | 82554 |
| Ross Levine | 122 | 398 | 108067 |
| Barry Eichengreen | 116 | 949 | 51073 |
| Martin Ravallion | 115 | 570 | 55380 |
| Kenneth H. Mayer | 115 | 1351 | 64698 |
| Angus Deaton | 110 | 363 | 66325 |
| Timothy Besley | 103 | 368 | 45988 |
| Lawrence H. Summers | 102 | 285 | 58555 |
| Shang-Jin Wei | 101 | 415 | 39112 |
| Thorsten Beck | 99 | 373 | 62708 |