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Employment, unemployment, and underemployment in Africa
Golub, Stephen; Hayat, Faraz - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739503
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Labour Markets and Income Inequality: What Are the New Insights after the Washington Consensus?.
van der Hoeven, R. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2000
This paper looks at some of the labour market outcomes of the economic reform policies in terms of inequality. The paper argues that labour market policies, regulations and institutions have at least three goals, improving allocative efficiency, improving dynamic efficiency and improving or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661065
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Trade with China and India and Manufacturing Labour Demand in Argentina
Castro, Lucio; Saslavsky, Daniel - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008
with China and India on Argentina?s industrial employment. We use a dynamic econometric model and industry level data to … estimate the effects of trade with China and India on the level of employment in Argentina?s manufacturing sector. Results … suggest that trade with China and India only had a small negative effect on industrial employment, even during the swift trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005001238
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The Legacy Effect of Squatter Settlements on Urban Redevelopment
A. Navarro, Ignacio; Turnbull, Geoffrey K. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
The paper presents a theoretical model that seeks to answer the question of why former squatter settlements tend to upgrade/redevelop at a slower pace than otherwise similar settlements originating in the formal sector. We argue that squatter settlers’ initial strategy to access urban land...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518137
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Moderating Urbanization and Managing Growth: How Can Colombo Prevent the Emerging Chaos?
Dayaratne, Ranjith - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
This paper examines urbanization trends, the growth of Colombo and its present state of development. It looks at the approaches to the planned interventions in the city and demonstrates how a uni-directional urban development has had a detrimental impact
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493699
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Cocaine Cities: Exploring the Relationship between Urban Processes and the Drug Trade in South America
Navarro, Ignacio A. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
large impact on urban development in producer countries: (i) through an employment multiplier effect similar to that of … that formal urban employment generated by the cocaine trade has a modest effect on urban growth and most of the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862799
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Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City
Rodgers, Dennis; Beall, Jo; Kanbur, Ravi - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
This paper argues for a more systemic engagement with Latin American cities, contending it is necessary to reconsider their unity in order to nuance the ‘fractured cities’ perspective that has widely come to epitomise the contemporary urban moment in the region. It begins by offering an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828337
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Education policy, vocational training, and the youth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Oketch, Moses - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Technical, vocational education, and training has remained an explosive topic because it can create a divided society in terms of education and the benefits associated with it. Internationally, it has always been a complex and controversial topic compared
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854451
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reducti
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854458
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Dimensions of African inequality
Bigsten, Arne - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that det
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854460