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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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The care connection: The World Bank and women.s unpaid care work in select sub-Saharan African countries

Bibler, Sarah; Zuckerman, Elaine - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

With the aim of reducing women.s greater unpaid care work than men.s and increasing women.s paid employment, this paper …

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Informality, growth, and development in Africa

Benjamin, Nancy; Mbaye, Ahmadou Aly - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

The informal sector makes up an overwhelming share of both gross domestic product and total employment in Africa. In …

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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

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