Bank Units. Assessment and Development Tendencies

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Development and Validation of the Behavioral Tendencies Questionnaire

At a fundamental level, taxonomy of behavior and behavioral tendencies can be described in terms of approach, avoid, or equivocate (i.e., neither approach nor avoid). While there are numerous theories of personality, temperament, and character, few seem to take advantage of parsimonious taxonomy. The present study sought to implement this taxonomy by creating a questionnaire based on a categori...

The Urban Development Bank

I want to discuss with you one proposal among many designed to bring more money to the states and municipalities. In the Johnson Administration we called it the Urban Development Bank, or URBANK. The present administration calls its version the Environmental Financing Authority. There are significant differences between the two, but both raise money through the sale of taxable bonds and lend to...

Inter-American Development Bank

This project analyzes the impact of land titling on child health and education. The empirical evaluation of the effect of land property rights typically suffers from selection problems. The allocation of property rights across households is usually not random but based on wealth, family characteristics, political clientelism, or other mechanisms built on differences between the groups that acqu...

African Development Bank

The aim of this paper is to provide a framework that national governments and international agencies can use to accelerate health development in Africa. It shows the respective roles of socioeconomic, political and medical factors in the determination of health status of a population. Using measures of health development such as infant mortality, crude death rate, fertility and longevity, the p...