's leading economic activity - by development initiatives and shifting economic incentives toward sustainable legal livelihoods … that can counterbalance the economic advantages of opium. It analyzes ways to change the relative incentives between licit … scope for increasing value added, competitiveness and productivity in agriculture (Chapter 3) and for promoting enterprise …

"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across …

-floor" productivity, and show that this is partly due to business environment-related losses. The surveys also show the importance of high … indirect costs in further depressing the "net" productivity of African firms relative to those in other regions. Reforms are …

series of recent World Bank and other studies on teacher absence and incentives for performance. Surprise school visits … these shortcomings, but also on the types of incentives, management, and support structures that can improve motivation and …

Tax incentives neither make up for serious deficiencies in a country's investment environment nor generate the desired …