Similar Search Results

Weathering the Storm : Supply Chains and Climate Risk

Castro-Vincenzi, Juanma; Khanna, Gaurav; Morales, Nicolas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We characterize how firms structure supply chains under climate risk. Using new data on the universe of firm-to-firm transactions from an Indian state, we show that firms diversify sourcing locations, and suppliers exposed to climate risk charge lower prices. Our event-study analysis finds that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512072

Using Satellite Imagery to Detect the Impacts of New Highways : An Application to India

Vogel, Kathryn Baragwanath; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper integrates daytime and nighttime satellite imagery into a spatial general-equilibrium model to evaluate the returns to investments in new motorways. Our approach has particular value in developing-country settings in which granular data on economic activity are scarce. To demonstrate...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468247

How Rules and Compliance Impact Organizational Outcomes : Evidence from Delegation in Environmental Regulation

Fenske, James; Haseeb, Muhammad; Kala, Namrata - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Formal rules within organizations are pervasive, but may be interpreted and implemented differently by actors within the organization, impacting organizational outcomes. We consider a delegation reform that changed formal rules within the environmental regulator in an Indian state, by giving...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447312

Social Status, Economic Development and Female Labor Force (Non) Participation

Munshi, Kaivan; Singh, Swapnil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This research provides a status-based explanation for the persistent increase in female labor force non-participation (FLFNP) that often accompanies economic development. This explanation is based on the idea that households or ethnic groups in developing economies can signal their wealth, and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072888

Income diversification in Zimbabwe : welfare implications from urban and rural areas

Ersado, Lire - 2006

diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522098

Why has poverty increased in Zimbabwe?

Alwang, Jeffrey R. - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523860

Zimbabwe Infrastructure Dialogue in Roads, Railways, Water, Energy, and Telecommunication Sub-Sectors

World Bank - 2012

In the 1990s, Zimbabwe's economic growth began to slow following a balance of payments crisis and repeated droughts. By … the late 1990s Zimbabwe's economy was in serious trouble driven by economic mismanagement, political violence, and the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552989

Wage and Productivity Premiums in Sub-Saharan Africa

Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2007

accurate test. The results indicate that equality holds strongly for the most developed country in the sample (Zimbabwe), but …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465344

The Curley Effect

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2002

James Michael Curley, a four-time mayor of Boston, used wasteful redistribution to his poor Irish constituents and incendiary rhetoric to encourage richer citizens to emigrate from Boston, thereby shaping the electorate in his favor. Boston as a consequence stagnated, but Curley kept winning...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469772

Zimbabwe Public Expenditure Review 2017 : Volume 4. Primary and Secondary Education

Government of Zimbabwe - 2017

Zimbabwe is at a critical juncture. After dollarization and favorable economic factors fueled arecovery during 2009 …-12, Zimbabwe today faces slowing growth, a financial crisis, increasingly erratic weather patterns and rising poverty and … inequality. To help respond to these issues, the Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ) has sought to examine and ultimately better manage …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247488