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Youth employment in Africa : new evidence and policies from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry - 2013

Drawing on the 2007 and 2010 Swaziland Labor Force Surveys, this paper provides first systematic evidence on recent youth employment challenges in Swaziland, a small, land-locked, middle-income country with one of the highest youth unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first documents the...

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Constraints to growth and job creation in low-income commenwealth of independent states countries

Verme, Paolo - 2006

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Access to finance among small and medium-sized enterprises and job creation in Africa

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Yogo, Thierry - 2020

In the past decade inclusive growth, that is job-rich growth, has topped the policy agenda in developing countries. This paper investigates how the access to finance affects employment in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. It first presents a model where firm...

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Access to finance among small and medium-sized enterprises and job creation in Africa

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Yogo, Thierry - 2020

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Constraints to Growth and Job Creation in Low-Income Commonwealth of Independent States Countries

Verme, Paolo - 2016

Despite sustained output growth since 1997, low-income Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries (CIS-7) have not experienced growth in employment, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in transitional economies and labeled as jobless growth. The author addresses the causes of this phenomenon...

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Constraints to Growth and Job Creation in Low-Income Commonwealth of Independent States Countries

Verme, Paolo - 2012

Despite sustained output growth since 1997, low-income Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries (CIS-7) have not experienced growth in employment, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in transitional economies and labeled as "jobless growth." The author addresses the causes of this...

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Economic Development and Female Labor Participation in the Middle East and North Africa : A Test of the U-Shape Hypothesis

Verme, Paolo - 2017

The Middle East and North Africa region is known for having low female labor market participation rates as compared with its level of economic development. A possible explanation is that these countries find themselves at the turning point of the U-shape hypothesis when countries transition from...

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Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2016

genders with higher start-up capital record better sales performance than those with smaller amounts of capital. For women … countries, women entrepreneurs in Swaziland have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to fund it from formal sources … than men. Among women entrepreneurs, those with college education and confident in their skills tend to start their firms …

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Economic development and female labor participation in the Middle East and North Africa : a test of the U-shape hypothesis

Verme, Paolo - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 3, pp. 1-21

(Investment in Women's Human Capital and Economic Development 1995) and observed elsewhere. This paper tests the U …

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Gender and constraints to entrepreneurship in Africa : new evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry - 2015

confirmed the importance of start-up capital for sales. Women entrepreneurs have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to …, business training is positively associated with sales performance of men entrepreneurs, but has no effect on women. However …, this does not call for abolishing training programs for women entrepreneurs. Instead their design and targeting should be …

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