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Is Automation Labor-Displacing in the Developing Countries, Too? Robots, Polarization, and Jobs
Maloney, William F. - 2019
This paper uses global census data to examine whether the labor market polarization and labor-displacing automation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646864
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Are Automation and Trade Polarizing Developing Country Labor Markets, Too?
Maloney, William F. - 2016
The automation and out-sourcing of routine, codifiable tasks are seen as driving polarization in labor markets in high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246558
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The Rise of the Robot Reserve Army : Automation and the Future of Economic Development, Work, and Wages in Developing Countries
Schlogl, Lukas - 2018
. And yet, emerging economies face a contemporary challenge to traditional pathways to employment generation: automation …—are estimated to be susceptible to automation from today's technological standpoint. Cumulative advances in industrial automation … literature on automation; and in doing so (ii) discuss definitions and determinants of automation in the context of theories of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915426
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The U.S. Aid 'Surge' to Pakistan : Repeating a Failed Experiment? Lessons for U.S. Policymakers from the World Bank’s Social-Sector Lending in the 1990s
Birdsall, Nancy - 2010
During the 1990s, the World Bank and several donor partners provided a “surge” in external aid to support Pakistan's social sectors. Despite the millions of donor dollars spent, the program failed. Poverty was higher in Pakistan in 2004 than it was a decade earlier when the antipoverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139221
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The High Return to Private Schooling in a Low-Income Country
Bold, Tessa - 2012
Existing studies from the United States, Latin America, and Asia provide scant evidence that private schools dramatically improve academic performance relative to public schools. Using data from Kenya — a poor country with weak public institutions — we find a large effect of private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113274
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Getting Real on Trade with Pakistan : Duty-Free Market Access as Development Policy
Elliott, Kimberly Ann - 2012
The combination of relatively high American barriers to trade in textiles and apparel and the importance of the sector to the Pakistani economy make increased market access a potentially powerful tool of U.S. policy. Unfortunately, recent proposals to extend duty-free market access for Pakistani...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114836
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How Can Donors Create Incentives for Results and Flexibility for Fragile States? A Proposal for IDA
Gelb, Alan - 2012
International Development Association (IDA) donors and others operating a country performance-based allocation system face two difficult problems: how to strengthen incentives to produce and document development results and how to increase flexibility for fragile states. Fragile states have the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114860
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The Costs and Benefits of Duty-Free, Quota-Free Market Access for Poor Countries : Who and What Matters
Laborde, David - 2012
This paper examines the potential benefits and costs of providing duty-free, quota-free market access to the least developed countries (LDCs), and the effects of extending eligibility to other small and poor countries. Using the MIRAGE computable general equilibrium model, it assesses the impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115600
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More Money or More Development : What Have the MDGs Achieved?
Kenny, Charles - 2011
What have the MDGs achieved? And what might their achievements mean for any second generation of MDGs or MDGs 2.0? We argue that the MDGs may have played a role in increasing aid and that development policies beyond aid quantity have seen some limited improvement in rich countries (the evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117449
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Global Health and the New Bottom Billion : What Do Shifts in Global Poverty and the Global Disease Burden Mean for Gavi and the Global Fund?
Glassman, Amanda L. - 2011
After a decade of rapid growth in average incomes, many countries have reached middle-income status. At the same time, however, poverty has not fallen so dramatically; as a result, most of the world's poor now live in middle-income countries (MICs). In fact, up to a billion poor people — or a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117501