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Structural reforms and productivity growth in emerging market and developing economies
Dabla-Norris, Era; Ho, Giang; Kyobe, Annette - 2016
This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436763
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Importing inputs for climate change mitigation : the case of agricultural productivity
García-Verdú, Rodrigo; Meyer Cirkel, Alexis; … - 2019
This paper estimates agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) in 162 countries between 1991 and 2015 and aims to understand sources of cross-country variations in agricultural TFP levels and its growth rates. Two factors affecting agricultural TFP are analyzed in detail - imported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009267
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Tax Farming : A Radical Solution for Developing Country Tax Problems?
Stella, Peter - 1992
Systemic tax administration problems in many developing countries have led to a search for radical solutions. One such proposed solution is tax farming. Tax farming is a system wherein the right to collect taxes is auctioned off to the highest bidder. An analysis of the historical experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396124
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FDI, global value chains, and local sourcing in developing countries
Amendolagine, Vito; Presbitero, Andrea; Rabellotti, Roberta - 2017
The local sourcing of intermediate products is one the main channels for foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers. This paper investigates whether and how participation and positioning in the global value chains (GVCs) of host countries is associated to local sourcing by foreign investors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112331
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Country Risks and the Investment Activity of U.S. Multinationals in Developing Countries
Lehmann, Alexander - 1999
This paper develops a simple real options model that demonstrates the role of country-specific risk and sunk costs in determining a multinational’s choice between exports and foreign investment. The hypotheses from the model are tested for the distribution of capital expenditures by U.S.-owned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400938
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Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Investment : The Case of Developing Countries
Al-Sadiq, Ali J. - 2013
Over the past two decades, the growth rate of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing and transition economies has increased significantly. Given the role of physical capital accumulation in determining the economic growth rate, it is important to assess how domestic investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395382
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The agricultural exodus in the Philippines : are wage differentials driving the process?
Cerutti, Eugenio M.; Li, Yiliang - 2021
Lagging labor reallocations outside agriculture amid sustained low agricultural productivity have been a key feature in … the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a … from agriculture, whilst the lack of post-primary education and the presence of agricultural clusters hinder such outflows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796816
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Crop selection and international differences in aggregate agricultural productivity
Alvarez, Jorge A.; Berg, Claudia - 2019
A large share of cross-country differences in productivity is explained by differences in agricultural productivity. Using a combination of sub-national agricultural statistics and geospatial datasets on crop-specific potential yields, we study the main drivers of this variation from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103617
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Structural transformation and the agricultural wage gap
Alvarez, Jorge A. - 2017
A key feature of developing economies is that wages in agriculture are significantly below those of other sectors … speaks against the existence of large short-term gains from reallocating workers out of agriculture and favors recently … gap level observed and its decline as the economy transitioned out of agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781284
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Women's opportunities and challenges in Sub-Saharan African job markets
Dieterich, Christine; Huang, Anni; Thomas, Alun - 2016
alternative avenue to escape low-paid jobs in agriculture, but the increase in per capita income is lower than male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011711532