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The impact of globalization and technology transfer on manufacturing employment and skills in Ethiopia

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013

There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises...

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Brilliant technologies and brave entrepreneurs : a new narrative for African manufacturing

Naudé, Wim - 2018

In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development. Despite failing to industrialize in the past, there may be a new window of opportunity. This is due to the convergence of what has been called "brilliant" new technologies associated...

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Investment and subjective uncertainty

Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; Foster, Lucia; … - 2022

A longstanding challenge in evaluating the impact of uncertainty on investment is obtaining measures of managers' subjective uncertainty. We address this challenge by using a detailed new survey measure of subjective uncertainty collected by the U.S. Census Bureau for approximately 25,000...

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Non-farm enterprise productivity and spatial autocorrelation in rural Africa : evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria

Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - 2014

from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS) and the 2010/2011 Nigeria General Household Survey … productive. In Nigeria, we find evidence for spatial autocorrelation at the individual enterprise level but not at the community … significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to …

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Hollowing out the middle? : remittances and income inequality in Nigeria

Bang, James T.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2018

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing …

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The determinants of foreign direct investment flows to the federal region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas (contributor); Davis, Rhona (contributor) - 2007

The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased dramatically in the last two decades. However, the distribution of FDI is highly unequal and the competition among countries to attract foreign investors is fierce. This report investigates the determinants of FDI inflows to developing...

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Quantifying optimal growth policy

Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M.; Trimborn, Timo - 2010

The optimal mix of growth policies is derived within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures important elements of the tax-transfer system and takes into account transitional dynamics. Currently, for calculating corporate taxable income US firms are allowed to deduct...

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The impact of opportunity zones on commercial investment and economic activity

Corinth, Kevin; Feldman, Naomi - 2022

A provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 offered tax incentives for investing in certain low-income areas in the United States called Opportunity Zones (OZs). The goal of this provision was to spur private investment in OZs in order to improve the economic well-being of their residents....

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Allocating subsidies for private investments to maximize jobs impacts

Robalino Aguirre, David A.; Romero, Jose Manuel; Walker, Ian - 2020

Governments often aim to influence the amount and sectoral allocation of private investments through explicit or implicit subsidies. The rules used to select projects to benefit from subsidies may vary, depending on the policy objective. This paper develops a general framework to allocate...

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Policy in the pipeline : identifying regional public investment priorities using a natural experiment

Myck, Michał; Najsztub, Mateusz - 2019

We identify regional public investment priorities by studying the development of the water pipe system in the largest district in Poland. For this purpose, we take advantage of a major administrative re-form, implemented on 1 January 1999, which substantially changed the structure of Polish...

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