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The impact of a new quality management practice on firm performance: evidence from Pakistan
Faran, Mahvish; Taylor, Karl - 2021
production and productivity of a large-scale garments manufacturer in Pakistan. The analysis provides evidence that production … productivity it had the desired effect of reducing the number of daily quality defects observed after the intervention. …
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Air pollution and agricultural productivity in a developing country
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2023
induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity …, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …-intensive crops, indicating that the pollution works at least partly through direct effects on labor productivity. Finally, combining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014315725
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Firm-level upgrading in developing countries
Verhoogen, Eric - 2021
In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading. But for many firms this advantage remains elusive....
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Financial constraints and innovation : why poor countries don’t catch up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010
; productivity ; financial constraint ; export ; technology frontier ; BEEPS …
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What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world?
McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012
impacts found come from trained firms competing away sales from other businesses versus through productivity improvements, and … directions and key questions for future studies. -- business training ; consulting ; randomized experiments ; firm productivity …
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Brain drain and productivity growth : are small states different?
Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor); Wang, Yanling (contributor) - 2008
states. -- Brain drain ; technology diffusion ; trade ; productivity growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656947
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North-South technology spillovers : the relative impact of openness and foreign R&D
Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor); Wang, Yanling (contributor) - 2008
larger productivity gains from trade liberalization than previously thought. -- Technology diffusion ; R&D ; openness ; North-South …
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What methods may be used in impact evaluations of humanitarian assistance?
Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - 2015
Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to humanitarian assistance, systematic learning from such interventions using rigorous theory-based impact...
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Using Internet data to analyse the labour market : a methodological enquiry
Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Beblavý, Miroslav; Thum, … - 2014
With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper focuses on methodological issues arising from the usage of online job vacancy data and voluntary web-based surveys to analyse the labour market. In addition to providing a...
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A brief introduction to human capital measures
Liu, Gang; Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2020
There are six major measures of human capital, each of which covers at least 130 countries, all of which are described in this paper. These measures are of two distinct types: monetary and index-based. The two monetary versions are those by the World Bank (Lange et al., 2018) and by the United...
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