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Capital Account Policies, IMF Programs and Growth in Developing Regions

Bicaba, Zorobabel - 2015

This paper develops an adaptive learning model under uncertainty that examines evolution of capital account polices over time and across developing regions. In the framework, countries' past experiences and IMF programs influence policymakers' beliefs about the impact of capital account...

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Industrialization Under Medieval Conditions? Global Development after Covid-19

Naudé, Wim - 2021

of the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for … industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …

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Does BMI Predict the Early Spatial Variation and Intensity of Covid-19 in Developing Countries? Evidence from India

Menon, Nidhiya - 2020

This paper studies BMI as a correlate of the early spatial distribution and intensity of Covid-19 across the districts of India and finds that conditional on a range of individual, household, and regional characteristics, adult BMI significantly predicts the likelihood that the district is a...

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How Effective are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence

McKenzie, David J. - 2017

Jobs are the number one policy concern of policymakers in many countries. The global financial crisis, rising demographic pressures, high unemployment rates, and concerns over automation all make it seem imperative that policymakers employ increasingly more active labor market policies. This...

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What are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations Around the Developing World?

McKenzie, David J. - 2015

world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of these programs in developing countries. We …

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The Consequences of Increased Enforcement of Legal Minimum Wages in a Developing Country : An Evaluation of the Impact of the Campaña Nacional De Salarios Mínimos in Costa Rica

Gindling, T. H. - 2014

In August 2010 the Costa Rican government implemented a comprehensive program to increase compliance with legal minimum wages, the Campaign for Minimum Wages. To evaluate the impact of the Campaign, we use a regression discontinuity approach, which compares what happened to workers who before...

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Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries

Alon, Titan; Doepke, Matthias; Manysheva, Kristina; … - 2022

In many high-income economies, the recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented declines in women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a specific focus on Nigeria, the most populous country in...

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Unemployment Compensation and the Allocation of Labor in Developing Countries

Charlot, Olivier - 2013

This paper studies the effects of the introduction of unemployment compensation (UC) in countries characterized by pervasive informality. We provide a simple framework to analyze the impact of UC on the allocation of workers between formal and informal activities, as well as the allocation of...

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Cash Transfers and Child Labour

de Hoop, Jacobus - 2013

Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labour is prevalent. Even if many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on child labour is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the empirical evidence on the...

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Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Developing Countries : Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Attanasio, Orazio - 2009

This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005. This randomized trial offers a unique opportunity to examine the impact of training in developing countries. We use originally collected data on individuals randomly offered...

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