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Pakistan Labor Market Study : Regulation, Job Creation, and Skills Formation in the Manufacturing Sector
World Bank - 2013
In an effort to improve employment outcomes and industrial productivity, the Government of Pakistan (GoP) has launched … maintenance of health, safety, and environmental standards in economic activities. Labor regulation in Pakistan is excessive by …
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Supporting the Manufacture in Pakistan of High-Quality DC Fans
World Bank - 2022
Pakistan, where electric fans are the prevalent technology for space cooling. Starting in 2018, the World Bank implemented … several initiatives in collaboration with the fan industry and other stakeholders in Pakistan to address as a matter of … Pakistan implemented through the World Bank and others development finance institutions, potentially incentivizing the purchase …
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Capital utilization in manufacturing : Colombia, Israel, Malaysia, and the Philippines
Bautista, Romeo M. (contributor) - 1981
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000053161
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Openness, industrialization, and geographic concentration of activities in China
Catin, Maurice - 2005
"Rapid development, a widening regional gap, and growing concentration of activities have characterized the Chinese economy since the reforms in the late 1970s. This paper examines the spatial disparities of the economic concentration in different stages of development from a geographic approach...
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State manufacturing enterprise in a mixed economy : the Turkish case
Wålstedt, Bertil - 1980
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Firms' productive performance and the investment climate in developing economies : an application to MENA manufacturing
Kinda, Tidiane - 2009
"Drawing on the World Bank Investment Climate Assessment surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between firm-level technical efficiency and the investment climate for 22 developing economies and eight manufacturing industries. The authors first propose three measures of firms'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394163
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Foreign direct investment in services and manufacturing productivity growth : evidence for Chile
Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2008
"During the 1990s, foreign direct investment in producer service sectors in Latin America was massive. Such investment may increase the quality of services, reduce their cost, and offer opportunities for knowledge spillovers to downstream users of the services. This paper examines the effects of...
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Are skills rewarded in Sub-Saharan Africa? : determinants of wages and productivity in the manufacturing sector
Fox, M. Louise - 2008
"Using recent matched employer-employee data from the manufacturing sector in 20 Sub-Saharan African countries, the authors analyze how the supply of skills and legal origin of the country affect the wage setting process. The wage analysis yields three main findings. First, increasing returns to...
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Financing energy efficiency : lessons from Brazil, China, India, and beyond
Taylor, Robert Prescott (contributor) - 2008
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Firm productivity in Bangladesh manufacturing industries
Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2006
"The author studies the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) for manufacturing firms in Bangladesh using data from a recent survey. She obtains TFP measures by making use of firm-specific deflators for output and inputs. Controlling for industry, location, and year fixed effects, she...
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