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South Africa - Constraints to Growth in Johannesburg's Black Informal Sector : Evidence from the 1999 Informal Sector Survey

World Bank - 2013

The report is the third in a series of reports that evolved from a collaboration between the local government of the City of Johannesburg, and the World Bank in 1999-2000 on the theme of local economic development. It presents the main findings of the 1999 World Bank informal sector survey,...

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Race, immigration, and the U.S. labor market : contrasting the outcomes of foreign born and native blacks

Walque, Damien de - 2008

literature also documents that Blacks experience lower labor market outcomes than Whites. This paper innovates by studying the … (Whites, Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics) interacted with their foreign born status, using the Integrated Public Use Micro Data … Blacks. Among men, for labor force participation and employment, foreign-born Blacks are doing better than native Blacks. The …

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Black hole or black gold? : the impact of oil and gas prices on Indonesia's public finance

Agustina, Rosa (contributor) - 2008

"Indonesia's oil revenues and fuel subsidies dominate the nation's economic policy agenda. This paper estimates the impact of higher international oil prices on the Indonesian government's fiscal position in 2008 and beyond. It analyzes the interactions between government revenues and...

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Diesel Power Generation : Inventories and Black Carbon Emissions in Nigeria

World Bank - 2014

Diesel gensets contribute to emissions of fine particulate matter (PM), including black carbon, which derives from the incomplete combustion of diesel (as occurs in many diesel generating sets or gensets). Particulate matter is a predisposing factor for respiratory and cardiopulmonary disease...

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Fostering technology absorption in Southern African enterprises

Goldberg, Itzhak (contributor); Kuriakose, Smita (contributor) - 2011

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Agricultural land redistribution and land administration in Sub-Saharan Africa : case studies of recent reforms

Byamugisha, Frank (contributor) - 2014

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Wage subsidy and labor market flexibility in South Africa

Go, Delfin S. (contributor) - 2009

"In this paper, the authors use a highly disaggregate general equilibrium model to analyze the feasibility of a wage subsidy to unskilled workers in South Africa, isolating and estimating its potential employment effects and fiscal cost. They capture the structural characteristics of the labor...

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Small businesses in South Africa : who outsources tax compliance work and why?

Coolidge, Jacqueline G. - 2009

"The authors use firm-level survey data on 998 small and medium enterprises registered for tax in South Africa regarding tax compliance costs to investigate the use of outsourcing to complete tax compliance tasks. Overall, about 43 percent of the enterprises do all their tax compliance work...

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Local sources of financing for infrastructure in Africa : a cross-country analysis

Irving, Jacqueline - 2009

"With the exception of South Africa, local financial markets in sub-Saharan Africa remain underdeveloped and small, with a particular dearth of financing with maturity terms commensurate with the medium- to long-term horizons of infrastructure projects. But as financial market reforms gather...

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Paying the price for unreliable power supplies : in-house generation of electricity by firms in Africa

Foster, Vivien - 2009

"This paper documents the prevalence of in-house generation of electric power by firms in Sub-Saharan Africa and attempts to identify the underlying causes. The analysis is based on two data sources. The UDI World Electric Power Plants Data Base (WEPP), a global inventory of electric power...

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